Category: Productivity

Hiring a virtual assistant can be life-changing for your small business. Not only do they save precious time by taking care of mundane, monotonous tasks, but they also help you achieve a better work-life balance. When last did you switch off and focus on something outside of work? But the truth is that there are […]

Being an entrepreneur in this busy world requires a strong set of skills if you’re going to succeed with your business. Cultivating a mixture of hard and soft entrepreneurial skills is vital for all aspects of your business if you want to guarantee growth and a healthy profit margin.     Hard and soft skills? You might […]

Virtual teams are replacing physical ones faster than anyone expected – and for good reason too! Many business owners have found that having a completely virtual team opens a wider talent pool with many benefits that can’t be ignored. So much so that 80% of companies have shifted towards virtual team collaboration in the past year due to the […]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  Aristotle    It’s been said that if you want to be in the top 5% of the world’s most successful people, you must do what the other 95% of people are not doing. Many of the world’s most successful CEO’s have spent years honing their self-discipline. One of […]

Start a business, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.      What they didn’t say is that it’s also one of the most stressful paths you could choose.      You might have world-class employees who go the extra mile, but at the end of the day they go home and forget about the business, while you lie awake till 2 am […]

Although the world in which we work is changing, the future of work is already here, for the most part. Many businesses have been forced into survival mode and there’s no denying that the future of work has been shaped by a few powerful factors. But, it’s not all as daunting as it seems. Keeping up and […]

On the surface, when we talk about creativity and productivity it would seem these two practices are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Business leaders are constantly striving for increased productivity as this keeps the wheels of industry turning. Creativity is seen as the spark of a new idea or concept whereas productivity is more the day-to-day execution of processes to keep your business flourishing. Can they co-exist and work simultaneously? […]

It’s no secret that most business owners and entrepreneurs have trouble taking time, or even weekends off. So, taking a sabbatical of 6 months or more may seem like an impossible feat to a business owner. But with the rise of virtual employees and business automation, it is more possible now than it has ever been to take […]

The world of business is constantly changing and evolving, with all kinds of new trends coming and going. But one trend that certainly looks like it’s here to stay is virtual administration. The provision of remote services covering all sorts of professional assistance to clients, including virtual administration, is changing the business landscape by shifting […]

It seems we live in a world that is perpetually searching for the perfect soundtrack to every moment. The mainstream explosion of lip-syncing-video apps such as TikTok demonstrates just this.  Our exposure to music is inescapable.   We know that music can have a huge impact both on our mood and behaviour. The right song […]