There are many ways a Virtual Assistant can help you with your professional development, here are just a few of them:
Monitor CPD Points
Your Virtual Assistant can regularly check your diary for CPD events and record details. They can either enter the details into your professional membership association records, or maintain a spreadsheet with details of CPD activities throughout the year. Then when it’s time for your membership to be renewed you’ll have all the details at your fingertips.
Make Bookings For Events
Instead of organising bookings, payments and travel for events yourself, pass the details over to your Virtual Assistant. They can make the booking and organise payment if needed. Once the registration confirmation is received they can enter the details into your calendar along with any information you’ll need on the day.
Type Up Your Notes From Webinars, Events And Classes
When you attend an event, your Virtual Assistant can type up and format your notes so you end up with a library of documents you can refer to in future. So often you take copious notes then either lose them or forget where they are. Your Virtual Assistant can format them and file them so they’re easy to find and easy to read.
Format And Proofread Assignments
If you’re doing formal learning, particularly a higher degree, there will be assignments that you’ll need to type and format according to your learning institutions requirements. Your Virtual Assistant can take assignments that you’ve typed and not only format the document, but do a quick spelling and grammar check as well.
Finding Events For You To Attend
Your Virtual Assistant can do some research in your industry and find conferences, trade shows or other events for you to attend. If you’re planning on travelling, particularly internationally, they can find related events that will be on at the same time in the places you’re going so that you can learn about industry issues that are relevant in countries other than your own.
Watch Industry Trends
Monitoring social media can be overly time consuming, but your Virtual Assistant can keep an eye on what’s being discussed by key players in your industry and let you know if anything comes up that you might need to learn more about, or if it’s something that you’re very familiar with, give you the opportunity to share your expertise and become an industry leader yourself.
By getting your Virtual Assistant to help with some of the more administrative tasks around your professional development, it leaves you with more time to actually take part in professional development exercises, and to spend time more profitably in your business.
