Planning for your business can be time consuming and not something you will easily find time for. If you don’t you will find that things pile up, go wrong, get missed or meander along without direction.
Because the rest of the world won’t stop and allow you time to just concentrate on planning, it’s something that only happens when it’s most needed, i.e. when you’ve got no customers! If you make planning a regular part of your “quite time”. Or even something that’s firmly diarised for annual review. Then you can make sure it happens with a minimum of fuss.
It’s also helpful to have a bit of help, which is where a Virtual Assistant comes in handy. You need to make all the business decisions. But, so much of the planning process is collecting information and resources and then collating it. That is all time consuming work that you really don’t need to do.
With that in mind, the video above looks at three stages of the planning process; 1. Creating the plan, 2. Constructing the plan, 3. Reviewing the plan. Then shows how you can split up the work so that you only deal with business decisions while your Virtual Assistant deals with the collection and creation of data.
Other helpful posts
If you need any more help or inspiration to develop a plan or get your process working for you, here are some previous posts you might find helpful…
- Converting a plan into action items
- Customer Service Planning
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with… Your annual business planning & review
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with making a plan
- What can a Virtual Assistant do for my business
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with… Your Writing
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with… Writing a business plan
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with… Your annual break
- How a Virtual Assistant can help with your planning
- Virtual Assistants as Strategic Partners
- 5 Steps to the perfect plan
If you’re still at a standstill, feel free to drop me a line and see if I can help.
