Let us show you…why a Virtual Assistant makes an invaluable external sounding board

Why do businesses pay for consultants and experts to come in and train or advise? It is because they have unique skills and an outside perspective. This serves to enhance a business and help leaders find ways to solve problems and grow. Virtual Assistants don’t train, however we do make an effective external sounding board for many reasons.

As expert Virtual Assistants based in North Yorkshire, our flexible approach to working with companies of all sizes has enabled many to benefit from an external sounding board and non-biased advice.

Using a Virtual Assistant as an external sounding board clarifies your thinking

As Virtual Assistants, we recognise the vast amount of information managers have to take in, process and send out. We manage diaries, book meetings, deal with workflows and complete a whole host of industry-specific administrative tasks. VAs know how busy leaders are and as business owners ourselves, we appreciate how difficult it can be to step outside of the business to look inward. The everyday pressures of work tend to take up all thinking space.

Talking through ideas with an external party that knows the business yet is not as caught up in it, can be great to clarify thinking. A new perspective is always useful. While as VAs we aren’t coaches or counsellors we have certainly been able to help business owners make positive changes...Read more