When you decide to work with and engage an executive virtual assistant you should strive to get the most impact out of that working relationship as possible. The goal of working with an assistant is to free up your time and as a result, see growth in your company. However, in order to realize true growth, you need to take a different approach to your relationship with your executive virtual assistant and not just see him or her as a task manager, but as a true partner in your success.

In this episode, I will provide insight into why it’s important to view your relationship with your executive virtual assistant from a different viewpoint in order to reduce turnover and avoid turmoil.

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• How to discover your “why” for the relationship
• What goals are vital to create and how to incorporate your assistant in your goal setting
• Why it’s important to share details

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

Oftentimes as a small business owner and entrepreneur, you can get so busy doing all of the things that you don’t stop to think about what it’s costing you. There are many things that need to be done to keep your business afloat, so the natural thing to do is to roll up your sleeves and get it done. However, operating in the “put your head down and work mode” doesn’t allow you the space and time that you need to keep an eye on the big picture/vision of your company, which in turn can derail your growth and revenue. Doing everything on your own is costing you, do you know how much?

Listen in as I share with you why handling everything is detrimental to you personally and your business and how you can get out of the DIY mode.

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• Why the DIY mode is detrimental to you
• How the DIY mode is slowly killing your business
• What you can do to move forward

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

If you own and operate your own business and have been doing so for a while, you may have at one point, or on an ongoing basis, experienced the feeling of overwhelm. Being in the space of feeling overwhelmed is typical if your business is growing. However, you may not be able to pinpoint exactly what’s causing you to feel overwhelmed. You can do a lot of things in your business each day, so it can be difficult to determine what the culprit is that’s causing you angst. If this is you, then know that you’re not alone.

In this episode, I will share with you two areas of your business that are most likely causing your overwhelm and what you can do about it.

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• The two most common areas of business that can cause overwhelm
• Why these areas cause overwhelm
• How you can manage each of these areas

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

One of the questions that I get asked about working with a virtual assistant is, “What can she do for me?” The answer is that she can do a lot for you; however, she can’t do everything, no one can. The role of an assistant can be broad and consist of a lot of tasks, and as a result, it can be difficult to determine how an executive virtual assistant can help you.

In this episode, I will share with you how your executive virtual assistant can support you beyond her scope of work/skills.

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• Why it’s important for an executive virtual assistant to stay in their zone of genius
• Why you shouldn’t want an assistant who can do it all
• Ways that your executive virtual assistant support you outside of her abilities

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

When thinking of things that you can delegate to your virtual assistant, calendar management should come to mind if are feeling overwhelmed by meetings. However, letting go of this task can be scary for some, but don’t let fear prevent you from getting the help that you need to get a better handle on managing your day. As you may be experiencing, managing your schedule can take up a tremendous amount of your time, so it’s definitely something that you should outsource. Of course, there are calendar apps that are available to aid you with this task as well, but there is still some work involved even with the use of these.

In this episode, you will learn the many elements of delegating your calendar management and the benefits that you can reap through this process.

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• How to get over the fear of letting go

• How to keep private appointments private

• Different ways to share your calendar

• 4 benefits of having someone else manage your schedule

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me.

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

Another popular reason that many people don’t delegate is because they’re skilled at a lot of the operational tasks associated with running their business. With this thought process they don’t feel the need to hand anything off because they can do it well, so why invest the time and resources to have someone else do it. There are a number of reasons why this line of thinking can hurt you and your business, and I will tackle each one on this episode. 

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• Why it’s important to know your business operations
• Why being tech-savvy is a blessing and a curse
• How to break free from the do-it-yourself mindset

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me. 

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review. 

One of the many reasons that people don’t delegate is that it will take too long to show someone else how to do what they want to be done. They feel that they don’t have the extra time to carve out to have someone else help, and as a result, they hang on doing everything themselves. Hopefully, this isn’t you. However, if it is, don’t fret because you are not alone in your thinking. There is hope, and in this episode, I will help you to move past this line of thinking so that you don’t reach bottleneck and burnout in your business. 

Tune in as I share with you tips that you can use to help you move past the idea of not delegating due to lack of time so that you can realize true freedom in your business.  

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• Face the facts – there is some upfront work
• What to do to change your thoughts
• How to create the right frame of mind for success
• Calculating your time and understanding your total ROI

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me. 

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review. 

When you’re delegating work to another person be open to mistakes happening. I know that this sounds odd to say given the fact that this is one of the main reasons that many people don’t delegate. However, it’s true that no one is perfect, and that includes you, so realize that others aren’t perfect either. Usually when it comes to delegating, when a mistake is made, believe it or not, sometimes it can be your fault. So, if you’re faced with the challenge of how to move past a mistake being made, please know that there are things that you can do to rectify the situation to ensure that the same mistake doesn’t happen again in the future. 

In this episode, I will share with you best practices for how to handle a mistake made by your assistant as well as tips to help you move past them.  

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• How to change your mindset about mistakes
• What to do when a mistake is made
• How to minimize mistakes before they occur
• When to throw in the towel and move on from a team member

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me. 

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review. 

Delegating can be hard to do, and there are many facets to doing it right and trusting the process. Many people don’t do it because of the trust factor. They’re afraid that the person that they delegate the work to won’t be able to do it to their liking and satisfaction. However, this is a thought process that you must get past in order to reap the benefits that delegating can bring to you and your business. 

Tune in as I share with you how you can move past the fear of an assistant not meeting your standards so that you can realize true freedom through delegating.  

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• Be open to the uniqueness of your team members
• How to gain a new perspective from others
• Learn who is the expert
• How to hire people who are smarter than you
• The key to making sure that things are done to your liking

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me. 

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review. 

When you work with your team you will most likely have both short-term projects/tasks and some long-term projects. Long-term projects usually have a longer lead time to complete, and can open the door for more things to go wrong and break-downs in communication. With that said, it’s important that you work proactively to prevent things from going awry in order to achieve success in the completion of your project. 

In this episode, I will share with you tips to help you prepare for a successful outcome for your next long-term project.  

Today on the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast:

• What makes a project long-term
• When to set your deadline 
• Milestones – why they’re important
• Everything to know about status updates and how they can make or break the project

Resources:

Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.

Join our Facebook group, Successful Delegation Strategies for more tips, strategies, and live sessions with me. 

Leave us a review!

If you’ve been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We’d love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.