There are two common myths about virtual assistants that have run rampant in the business world for long enough. Believing these myths aren’t helping small businesses at all; understanding the true realities about virtual assistants will help.
MYTH: My business can’t afford to hire virtual assistants.
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It is interesting to see the variety of ways that employers approach managing employees who work out of a virtual office. We found a number of important factors that go into successful management in a virtual office situation and would like to share them today.
- Building and Maintaining Camaraderie. There are a number of ways to do this: through regular communication via phone, email, or electronic message boards, by encouraging employees share problems, get feedback, or even acknowledge successes or goals met.
- Trust Goes Both Ways. In general, employees very much need to know that their managers trust them to carry out everyday work functions, be competent to do the basic job with little or no supervision, and perform to the established standards. This goes doubly so in a virtual office situation.
- Open-Door Policy. Even without a physical office door, a manager who has an open door policy will tend to be a successful one. A regular face-to-face team meeting helps to stay on top of brewing problems or to brainstorm new ideas, as well as to give positive motivation to virtual office workers.
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Today, as never before, virtual businesses are becoming both more popular to run and easier to start up. Every day, more and more companies learn that redefining and reworking the concept of telecommuting into a virtual office space has launched a quiet revolution for them.
Established, larger corporations are also realizing that telecommuters are happy, appreciative, and cost-effective, so they encourage people to work via virtual office space. Smart companies provide essential training and support so workers are productive at home from the start.
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What a confusing mess! Without a full-time human resources office, small businesses often find the logistics of filling job openings to be tedious and all too often less than fruitful. However, if they instead opt to utilize our virtual receptionists to “fill” the positions, they’d skip over all the time-consuming sifting through resumes, setting up and conducting countless interviews, and calling references, and get right to the good stuff: having quality workers on the job, representing your company.
There are no down sides that we can see. Companies usually discover that their virtual receptionist can act as a professional business presence and gatekeeper without the added expense of office space, equipment, or full-time staff. In addition, your virtual receptionist will be wholly professional.
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