As a virtual assistant, you may find yourself at a point in your career where you need to put together a team in order to expand your capabilities and progress in your career. However, there is a lot of planning and preparation which goes into building a team, especially if you're a little shy on managerial experience. Setting up your project and team management systems early is a must for your success.

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When you first got started as a virtual assistant, you had a business plan. If this plan was well written, it includes plans for the growth of your business - and now that your business is growing, it's time to turn these plans into action. You should begin planning for expansion before your business grows to the point where your hand is forced. It'll make it a lot easier to make your plans for expansion a reality with a minimum of hassle - and part of growing your business is outsourcing.

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Obviously, you'll want to handle some of the more sensitive work like client email and anything containing financial or personal information yourself; at the very least, you'll want to keep this work to yourself until you've learned that you can trust your subcontractors implicitly.

The kind of work you'll want to outsource to begin with are jobs which don't require access to sensitive information or much, if any client contact. You'll also want to keep these tasks smaller in scope until you know that your subcontractors are capable of producing quality work within your schedule. However, jobs like writing articles, reports and content for newsletters, putting together presentations and doing research for you are all good candidates for outsourcing.

Before assigning any of your subcontractors work for your clients, it's very important to [Not to worry, my friend. Although the rest of this article is protected for Club Member - Free Content members only. You can easily join the Productivity Club or login to read the remaining content. Club Member level is always FREE.]