Organize Your Business with a VA

The good online personal assistant should possess some skills and attributes that make him vigilant, efficient and reliable. The online personal assistant or virtual assistant as it is mostly called should possess some special qualities to create his worth in the corporate world. The position of good personal online assistant is promising in terms of salary but it requires number of skills, expertise and competencies to reach the top. The hall mark of a professional and reliable online personal assistant is professionalism and confidentiality. The personal online assistants are expected to be efficient, well organized; self motivated and should have computer knowledge.

You can become a good online personal assistant if you follow these six simple steps; 

• Development of good interpersonal skills: a good online personal assistant remains cool and calm even under pressure. They can think out of the box and remain on their feet. It is very important to have the ability to work with others with ease especially with the difficult types of people such as CEO’s of different companies which demands working under pressure.

• Development of good communication skills: the online personal assistants of any company are often at the front representing the company. They are the first ones with whom the companies and clients contact for further business contracts. So it requires you to be pleasant and should have good communication skills to communicate with them with professionalism. You should have an ability to influence other people and makes a good impression on them. Apart from verbal skills, good written communication skills are also required, as the Online personal assistants have to communicate with the clients on the behalf of their boss and to provide them with business summaries and reports about the progress of the work.

• Development of good IT and computer skills: IT and computer skills are necessary requirement to be a good personal online assistant. A good PA’s should at least possess a grasp on Microsoft Word (Advanced); Microsoft Excel (Intermediate); Microsoft PowerPoint (Advanced), a good working knowledge of an email package like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, etc. It is additional plus point to have knowledge of database management.

Development of good internet skills: online personal assistants require conducting online research off and on so you should be internet savvy. You should possess good working knowledge of the internet. In addition to this, if you have knowledge of internet marketing and behaviors of search engine such as SEO, it will add to your value and worth and you will be able to provide exceptional assistance to your employer.

• Developing interest in the office technology: a good personal online assistant requires keeping him or herself updated with the latest and up-to –date technology to meet the requirements of the fast paced corporate world. You are required to have knowledge about the latest office tools used for communication and android applications running on mobile devices.

• Developing efficient and well organized personality: the personal online assistant requires to be highly efficient, quick and well organized, as he or she requires to maintain the mail box, answer mails, prepare presentations, create meeting schedule, update websites and blogs, make and manage the budget plan, send our newsletters, correspondences, and executive summaries, type letters and documents, manage projects.

So by developing these skills you can achieve a status of a good online personal assistant.