5 Easy Steps to Hire and Train an Assistant QUICKLY!
In our fast-paced world, we often find ourselves juggling multiple responsibilities and struggling to maintain work-life balance. It's easy to get overwhelmed and feel like we're drowning in a sea of tasks. However, there's a powerful solution that can help you regain control and while also scaling your business: hiring an assistant.
In this blog, I’ll share 5 proven steps my clients use to hire hard working, quality assistants.
1. Identify the tasks you can delegate to an assistant. Often times these are non-income producing activities like data entry, reviewing meeting notes, confirming and rescheduling appointments, or even content creating to engage your clients!
2. Record yourself doing 1 task a day and saying the steps out loud AS YOU GO ABOUT YOUR WORK DAY.
3. I like to use LOOM to record screen videos and Otter.ai to transcribe the instructions.
4. Put the video and instructions in a spreadsheet.
5. Put out a job posting announcing that you’re looking for an assistant!
6. Interview your top candidates with this funnel methodology.
7. Share a written questionnaire to determine time it takes to complete the task and also to check their ability to communicate.
8. Conduct a video or phone call and get to know them a little. Ask strategic questions and provide one last assignment or task as “homework.”
9. Make the hire, set expectations and share training videos.
Hiring an assistant is an investment in your productivity, efficiency, and well-being. By delegating tasks, you are no longer paying yourself an assistant’s hourly wage. You’re a leader now and they’re on your team to support your mission.
Stay patient, believe in them, and they’ll reward you with unwavering loyalty if you empower them to grow alongside you!
Amber’s Hiring an Assistant Playbook is available starting June 20!! To pre-order, click here.
To sign up for Amber’s upcoming 6 week HIRE AN ASSISTANT INTENSIVE where she provides templates, helps you create training content, and trains you through interviewing and onboarding a hire, click here.
*Written by me, a human, not Chat GPT or other AI :)
