The Big Deal Of Communication And Virtual Assistants

I look back with great gratitude to God the father who's been really good to us all these years.  First, the year 2013 so far is the best year ever since we started this passionate business in Real Estate. Running this business successfully together with my partner and Virtual Assistants is a BIG DEAL to me.  It's been really a tremendous job going through the hassle of interviewing several applicants, choosing the right ones that will fit in, hiring Virtual Assistants, training and educating VAs.     

To me Virtual Assistants are important in business especially when your business is booming.  You can't possibly run a business by yourself, you'll need an assistant.  However when the business is growing the overwhelming tasks cannot be handled by one assistant alone.  You will need more than one Virtual Assistant to cope this and to manage the day-to-day operations.

My Virtual Assistants are based in different time zone and they have to be flexible to fit in the time schedule required for them to work. Trust is very much an important factor here.  There's a lot to be learned when you are working with VAs. One aspect for example before you decide to hire a Virtual Assistant, it's important to figure out which tasks you plan to be completed and how many hours or days would you like these completed.  Completion would have been the easy part for them to do had it not been of the natural disasters that they experienced this year. 

In November 7, 2013, I was talking to my Virtual Assistants giving them all the necessary precautions that I could muster in preparation to one of the destructive, tropical typhoon (Haiyan or Yolanda to Filipinos) in the Philippines.  One of my Virtual Assistants had part of her home's roof blown and the other was hard to be reached due to black out for many days (her part of town was also struck by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, weeks ago before the typhoon).  It was a trying time for us.  I could not imagine what they went through but thankfully they are in better situation than those people in Tacloban City who lost not just their houses and other belongings but their love ones.  It was of course a tragic experience for them and people were helpless.  However, I have advice my team that no matter what kind of situation we are in, we must always maintain positivity in life.  Life is full of miracles and blessings, with the help coming from the different countries (offering love, caring, goods, funds and support in any form) slowly the victims of the quake and typhoon started to regain strength, hope, leaving behind their past, learning from the bad situation and looking forward to build a better future.  

Communication had become a REALLY BIG DEAL for us after these distructions.  Communication is the foundation that is essential for success. The need is for superior, constant communication with my Virtual Assistants. For me this is a must especially when you are dealing with vuca in the context of uncontrollable situations such as "natural disasters".  Solid communication is truly the most key reason why a team succeeds or fails.  Our ability to have top notch communication at any given moment or at any given situation for that matter is a goal in our team that we must achieve to ensure the best chance of success.