Are you looking to start a new business or cut your current overhead costs due to the recent pandemic? Either way, it’s a great time to organize your tasks and outline the necessary administrative duties that your business requires. By doing so, you can ensure that your business has a successful launch by having all of the administrative tasks checked off the list. However, do you know what those administrative duties entail?
Administrative Tasks Are What Keep a Successful Business Going
The term “administrative tasks” actually refers to a broad range of complex and diverse duties that support the general operations of the business. Typically, a new business may be started by one person or a small group of people who are focused on providing a product or service. Initially, you or your founding owners may not have the bandwidth to handle those foundational tasks and tools that help the business to operate efficiently and grow. These tasks include accounting, human resources, and keeping up with your Internet Technology (IT) needs. As the business owner or owners, YOU are handling most of these duties.
If you have the budget to add to your staff, you might consider hiring an administrative assistant. A strong administrative assistant can serve as the glue that holds it all together and is indispensable now more than ever as we navigate the challenges of living in a pandemic. A strong administrative assistant provides the support needed by the new business owner to successfully meet the requirements at work while balancing the needs at home.
What are Administrative Duties?
For a new business owner, a strong administrative assistant can handle many of the daily operations of the business. Some administrative duties include:
- HR Administration (processing applications; managing files; interviewing as needed)
- Onboarding new hires
- Troubleshooting IT issues
- Basic Bookkeeping/other financial tasks
- Data Entry
- Email Management/Calendar Management
- Creating Reports
- Managing Data
- Planning/executing events and programs
The administrative assistant serves as the first point of contact for external and internal customers and provides key operations and administrative support to business owners, customers and as the business grows, the staff. The administrative assistant helps ensure that a business runs like a well-oiled machine.
Administrative Assistants Keep Things Running Smoothly
In managing daily operations, the strong administrative assistant is expert in prioritizing and handling multiple projects in a fast-paced and busy working environment.
Today’s administrative assistant is generally quite tech-savvy. Many in this role are skilled in using various software applications for word processing, data entry, communications, spreadsheet management and graphic presentations to name a few.
Delegating administrative tasks to the administrative assistant allows you the opportunity to focus on more strategic work. If you are a business owner, it can enable you to finally work ON your business instead of IN your business. It also allows an Executive Director of a growing nonprofit to focus on fundraising and program development or other mission-based tasks.
Need an Administrative Support? LTD Global Can Help
If you have just started a business and need help when it comes to getting the administrative duties sorted out, LTD Global is here to help. In fact, LTD has been assigned administrative support teams to companies and agencies across different states. For more information, contact LTD Global today!