One of the benefits of a corporate working environment are the colleagues you have at your disposal. They are easily accessible to help brainstorm, push through deadlines, or just listen when you need to talk through a problem. However, as a small business owner or a solo entrepreneur, a more creative approach is needed to obtain the advice and counsel that we require.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that I needed to replicate the workplace experience by building my own professional relationships. My solution was to implement an Advisory Committee. An Advisory Committee is a small group of trusted individuals that you can turn to for advice and feedback. They should have a genuine interest in your business as well as a strong desire to help you succeed.
The members and structure of your Advisory Committee should be chosen with careful thought and consideration. A good starting point is to identify your weaknesses and look for people who will be able to help overcome the obstacles you will face. You can select anyone from friends or family all the way to retired CEOs, but be certain that their contribution will be relevant to your business’s needs.
A qualified Virtual Assistant Coach can be your best ADVISOR, because with vast experience in working hands-on with clients, a VA Coach‘s perspective can provide extraordinarily valuable insights. We see the big picture together with the minutia, and adopting simple changes and ideas we recommend can often result in a profound difference to your business.
Most of all…enjoy the comfort of knowing that you are not alone and will always have someone to look to for counsel. You and your Virtual Assistant business will reap the rewards and perhaps one day be able to pay it forward as well.
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A fault among a lot of business owners is to bring in their senior employees as advisors. Those people may know that one particular business. But they don’t know a lot about business in general. If you are a house painter and you bring on other house painters to discuss your business, chances are that you’ll be talking about house painting. BUT if you bring in someone that is an accountant, a sales professional, a marketer or a janitor, you’re going to get different opinions which may induce creative options for creating new business opportunities.
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