Online Task Management Tips For New Virtual Assistants

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by: Reed Slidell
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 Time: 6:08 AM
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Once we have selected a new virtual assistant to work on your Melbourne search engine optimisation team, the first thing you want to do is make sure that you give them that underarm throw, a really easy task very early on as part of your online task management. Show them what to do. What I mean there is, I'll record it on Camtasia or ScreenFlow exactly here's the process of what it is that I want you to do. I'll record it and document it. I'll also give them, where I can, some written notes as well.

Usually what I'll do is I'll get a notepad and I'll write bullet points of everything that I'm going to cover in the video. Then I'll record the video and I'll use the bullet points in the notepad to make sure I stay on topic. Then I send them a video; in the PS, I write PS here are the notes from the google local video, bang. So they've got a little bit where they can jump around and they don't have to go backwards and forwards between the video. Record them, come up with an online task list, show them exactly how to do it. Let them do it with you, so the first step when teaching someone how to do something, is, here let's do it together and you'll show them. That's why I record the video. Then we'll do one together.

If they are at the office I could sit right down and do it with them, otherwise, if they're virtual, you do the seo methods work and then you get back to me and let me know how you went.

Then I could let them do it on their lonesome and I could provide feedback. So at that point I will say, right, go ahead, do the work, send it back to me and then I may review it and then when I review it, I should give them some feedback points as an element of doing online task management. If there are some feedback points, I am going to get them to do the task again. Then they'll do it again and I may give them more feedback points. Then if there are still feedback points, I may give them those and then I will say go do it again. I essentially will keep on doing that to the point at which they do the online presence task fantasically with no feedback.

So this is similar to a technique that we've gone through and developed and I suspect it's critical. This can save you hours of heart ache. So record them, show them the proper way to do it, let them do it with you, then let them do it on their own, give them the feedback and then the final thing is now and then, you'll review it. Then the last step after that is then they must teach somebody else how to do it. Once they do that, then they'll start to record videos and then they will become that person who then has folks beneath them to coach them. But you've got to first learn the way to do online task management yourself.