Comments on: Hiring your first assistant https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html The small town and rural business resource Wed, 27 Aug 2014 12:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: What 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Can Teach You about Hiring a Virtual Assistant! https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html#comment-18175 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:28:46 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1228#comment-18175 […] activities while you do stuff you love- like going on a vacation! Liz suggests that instead of wasting valuable time on mundane tasks (that you can’t let go off) and sacrificing your money, let your VA earn you […]

]]> By: ME Strauss https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html#comment-889 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:10:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1228#comment-889 Hi Chaz!
By ego strength I mean someone who has a strong sense of who they are — a person who is not easily thrown, bruised by situations beyond their control, or weak of character. I don’t think an assistant must consume their own, but I do think that such a person must know when it makes sense to set it aside.

People with ego strength realize that most things are not about them. They can be personally invested in the work without taking things personally.

Hope this helps make more sense of what I meant.

]]> By: TheChaz https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html#comment-888 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:32:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1228#comment-888 I have a feeling that Liz meant what I said, she just said it in a different way, but I’ll defer to her as well.

]]> By: Becky McCray https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html#comment-887 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:27:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1228#comment-887 Charles, great experience, and I’m glad you shared it. Rather than put my interpretation on it, I’m going to ask Liz to explain more of what she meant.

]]> By: TheChaz https://smallbizsurvival.com/2008/04/hiring-your-first-assistant.html#comment-886 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:23:00 +0000 http://smallbizsurvival.com/?p=1228#comment-886 As a very high end Executive Assistant I’d like to chime in here…

You do not want an assistant that has a strong ego, unless I’m reading “Ego Strength” the wrong way.

A good assistant must consume their own ego in order to perform the greater tasks at hand.

“Charles, I need to plan my wife’s 40th Birthday Party – Research a private jet to the Caribbean…”

That was an actual task, and while that wasn’t the end result, I did get quotes for all of that, the cost for a weekend (with their friends) would have been more my annual salary, you cannot do this kind of job with ego, I’ve seen it destroy other admins and put them in a bitter cycle of career destruction.

My two cent fiddy.

Charles

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