subject: Improving the Productivity Level of Your Virtual Assistant [print this page] Improving the Productivity Level of Your Virtual Assistant
Being in the management team, one of the toughest yet most significant task is to keep employee motivated in order to achieve maximum productivity. This is even more crucial for outsourcing companies that are highly output-oriented by nature. With this, the management team of such companies needs to look over the output on a daily basis.
The question on how to further increase the productivity of the virtual employees is a common question among managers, especially for those who are new to the field. To start of, it is important to note the two management set-up of having virtual assistants one is remotely, the other one is by hiring a virtual staffing company to do most of the management tasks. The more challenging part would apparently be engaging in remote management. Below, we list down some of the easy ways to make remote management easier:
Use multiple instant messaging tools Skype is the most commonly used collaboration tools in communicating with remote staff. However, it would always be useful to be connected with your staff through other tools for contingency purposes. This would leave you and the staff with no excuse not to communicate with each other in times when you need it the most.
Provide tasks ahead of time, always if the staff sees the tasks he or she needs to accomplish within a certain period of time, including the future tasks will allow them to arrange their schedule accordingly and set their own priorities. A more organized mind leads to a more organized output.
Regulate Monitoring Activities the idea of being constantly monitored can be very distracting at times, and may even hinder the productivity of the remote staff. In a remote set-up, the monitoring system may often take a lot of time, as well like sending out screenshots, screen casting, and the likes. If you could find a more discrete way of monitoring remote employees, then good enough, but if there's none, then it would be healthier to simply do the monitoring moderately.
