How Fractional Assistance Can Support Team Productivity
The top executives are not the only employees that could benefit from having an assistant. Directors, managers, and their direct reports could be more productive if they had the option to delegate administrative tasks.
These are often tasks that must be done to complete a process or project but do not necessarily add much value to the end objective. On average, executives spend 16 hours a week on these tasks. Other employees report spending about 12% of their time (about 5 hours a week) on administrative tasks.
Often, an existing office manager doesn’t have the capacity to offer assistance to these managers or employees. Yet, the needs don’t warrant a full-time assistant.
The inability to delegate these tasks can cause decreased motivation, increased distractions, and overall lower productivity for teams. None of this offers a positive contribution to company goals.
Virtual assistants can step in with fractional, flexible support for teams. They can work with other administrative staff such as office managers, executive chiefs of staff, or HR directors to ensure an alignment with team dynamics and processes. Their services come with considerably lower overhead costs than part-time or full-time W2 employees.
Virtual assistants for teams can:
Support multiple departments instead of a single executive
Manage expense reporting to make accounting teams happy with on-time reports
Create presentations that align with a company’s brand while keeping employees focused on the actual work the presentation reports on
Schedule meetings to eliminate the back-and-forth email that ends up forgotten in someone’s inbox
Help arrange travel plans from booking flights to confirming dinner reservations
By offering this type of support to your team, your employees have more time to focus on the objectives of the jobs you’ve hired them to do. In turn, they may feel more motivated to do more and offer more to your company, thus boosting productivity and lowering turnover.
Auxo Business Services offers high-quality, US-based virtual assistants that specialize in supporting fast-paced teams. To learn more about how we could help your team, book a time to chat with us.