Maximize Your Day: How a Personal Assistant Can Streamline Your Schedule
The Benefits of Outsourcing Professional and Personal Tasks
Since the pandemic, work and life have blended together more than ever with the introduction and prevalence of working from home. All of a sudden, we found ourselves faced with the increasing demands of home life literally surrounding our daily workload. It seemingly became less acceptable to outsource because many thought “I’m home! I can just do it myself!”, without recognizing that the time needed to handle these personal responsibilities didn’t just appear out of thin air simply because work was happening from home.
Enter: part-time personal assistants; dedicated support for handling the daily life overflow like picking up groceries, returning all those Amazon boxes, and scheduling that long overdue doctor’s appointment that you couldn’t bring yourself to wait on hold for.
Because You Are BusyBenefits of a Streamlined Schedule
You can streamline your schedule by removing the routine and time-consuming tasks from your plate and delegating them to a part-time personal assistant. Reducing the stress around managing the minutiae can open up room in your work and life to work towards bigger goals. You’ll be afforded a clearer focus, and find increased productivity on higher-level tasks and more important affairs that require your attention, all while those daily to-dos are completed efficiently by your PA.
The Need for More Time Management
You are not alone when it comes to the struggle of balancing work, family, and personal life. Inevitably, things start slipping through the cracks or put off for days/weeks/months because there is only so much time in the day and only so much bandwidth a person has. We get it! It’s easy for even the simplest tasks to land on a never-ending to-do list. Outsourcing these tasks to a part-time personal assistant can lift the burden of that nagging voice in your head repeating “You need to do X” and “Don’t forget about Y”.
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Errands
Return Packages
Schedule Appointments (Doctor, Car Service, etc.)
Restaurant Reservations
Online Shopping/Purchase Gifts
Research Vendors and Service Providers (Electricians, Contractors, Internet, etc.)
Schedule and Oversee Service Appointments
Help Organize a Move
Home Organization
Set Up Devices
Stock Groceries/Household Supplies
Research/Book Family Vacations and Children’s After-School Activities
Manage Housekeepers/Nannies
Pay Bills
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Manage Calendar
Coordinate & Schedule Meetings
Achieve and Maintain Inbox Zero
Draft Emails
Email Correspondence
Circulate Documents
Liaise Internally & Externally
Book Travel/Create Travel Itineraries
Administrative Tasks
Prepare Documents
Plug Information into Templates
Draft Emails
Data Entry
Organize Files/Digital Organization
Manage Registrations
Online Research
Spreadsheet Creation & Documentation
How to Get Started with a Part-Time Personal Assistant
Once you’re ready to get started with a personal assistant (if you’re thinking about it, trust us, you’re ready), we recommend starting with a short list of specific tasks that you can easily delegate. This can make the hiring and onboarding process less daunting. Start by filling out our Client Questionnaire and we’ll help you flush out your needs in greater detail. We’ll review the support you are looking for and share candidate matches with you straight to your inbox. Simply let us know who you would like to interview and we’ll coordinate video meetings so you can meet face-to-face. Once you know who you’d like to hire, we’ll facilitate an introduction and you can start to offload tasks!
We understand that if you’re hiring a personal assistant for the first time, it can feel overwhelming. That’s why we’ve done the heavy lifting of screening competent, proactive candidates and offer a streamlined interview process. Of course, there will always be a learning curve, but we’re confident that with clear communication (on both sides), you and your PA will sink into a comfortable groove, and you’ll be able to take a deep breath knowing you have support from a competent assistant.
