Tips for Boss

Treat your p.a. with respect

Ask them how they are each day

Invest in their personal and professional development.

Listen to them

Say 'thank you'

Realise that your p.a. has a life outside of work and needs time out just like you do

Be flexible - many p.a.'s have a family to care for, if you are flexible they will be extremely loyal and work even harder

Understand that when you give them tasks to do, although you many have taken 2 minutes to discuss with them, it could take them 2 days, particularly with many interruptions they have to deal with.

Keep your p.a. in loop. Organise a regular time each day to 'catch up'.

Share your successes with them. Tips for P.A.

Look after your health and fitness first. You'll feel good, look good and be more confident. NEVER SACRIFICE YOUR HEALTH AND FITNESS BECAUSE OF YOUR WORKLOAD.

Avoid martyr syndrome. Ensure you take time out at lunchtime and get out of office. The place will survive without you.

If workload is too much, let boss know. It's no point whinging to everyone else and doing nothing about it.

If saying 'no' is hard for you, then do an assertiveness course.

When communicating with a male boss, get to point.

Join a professional association for office professionals. Share ideas and resources.

Develop your skills, attend courses and seminars and read books to help you grow. Remember more valuable you are, better person you become and more you can earn. The Final Word For many managers and business owners, having a good p.a. helps them to leverage their time and enables them to focus on what they need to be working on. When you find right person, treat them like gold, do not take them for granted. If you look after them, they will look after you and make your working life so much more manageable.

When you look after your people, they will look after you…just make sure you never forget that!

Have a great week! Lorraine Pirihi

She now had enough knowledge to make decisions and take actions that could make her financially independent over next few years. Karen couldn't believe how simple it was!

Your Financial Future - Who's Responsibility?

Unfortunately you cannot leave your financial well-being in hands of anyone else except yourself.

Of course, you can seek advice from professionals in that field like accountants and financial planners; however, it really is up to you to lead way …to be proactive!

Having attended many seminars, spoken to wealthy people and to financial professionals (many of whom aren't independently wealthy themselves), and read many books on topic of wealth creation, I have found you cannot rely on any one person to delegate your financial affairs to. You need to be proactive and take control of your own life.

How to Take Control of Your Financial Future

Get your finances in order first: You need to know what you spend, what you earn, how much you owe and how much you own…Not in your head but in writing. What you think your situation is and what is reality, will more than likely be two totally different scenarios.

If you know where you are right now you can then seek out appropriate solutions to your specific financial needs.

How to Get Started

Speak with your accountant on best way to set up your recording system. Ask them how you can increase your wealth. Ask your accountant and/or your financial advisor how they have created their wealth. What do they invest in? Talk to people who are wealthy. Ask them how they accumulated their wealth. Question everything. Read books and attend seminars on wealth creation…the more informed you are easier it is to make sound decisions. Don't believe everything you hear, see and read, particularly if person advising you reaps financial benefit from you accepting their advice. Only listen to people who "have rungs on ladder".

Once you've have done some research (and this can happen in a matter of days or weeks, depending on your efforts) then:

Take action The Final Word

Looking after your financial well-being should be a top priority. It's about having choices in your life. Do you really want to work from dawn to dusk to support lifestyle you and your family have become accustomed to? Wouldn't it be great to go to work because you want to, not because you have to?

If financial freedom is something you want in not too distant future (and it doesn't happen overnight), you have to take action sometime... like right now!

Have a great week! Lorraine Pirihi

Lorraine Pirihi is Australia's Personal Productivity Specialist, Leading Life Coach and a dynamic presenter. She runs her own business The Office Organiser specialising in working with Small Business Owners and Managers helping them to dramatically improve their productivity, reduce the stress and the mess and have more time for living life!