AI is reshaping recruitment across the UK, particularly in admin and operational roles. Demand for high‑calibre executive assistants, office managers, and project coordinators remains strong, even as AI becomes more integrated into daily workflows.
Read more…“As Bay Tree grows, building relationships and sharing our story here in Lancashire has been great. I’ve loved discovering the variety of businesses in the region and understanding the support they need to grow.”
Read more…Read five ways in which Bay Tree can help you maintain a healthy and stress-free team…
Read more…“In the quest to distinguish your EVP, an unconventional yet increasingly valuable partner is an outsourcing team, such as Bay Tree. As a fractional style of resourcing becomes the norm, there is more opportunity for creativity in your employee retention strategy,”
Read more…As trusted advisers increasingly encourage business owners to turn to outsourced support to enhance productivity and flexibility, understanding how outsourcing services operate is key. Bay Tree VA provides a managed service model that connects clients with members of their experienced, UK-based team.
Read more…“For many of the senior leaders I coach, a recurring frustration that rears its head around 3am is – I can’t do it all, but I don’t know anyone else that can. That tension between needing support and fearing a loss of control becomes a pressure cooker. So, they do what high-performers often do… they keep going.”
Read more…“The focus has been very much on the needs of the employee in recent times and that burden has fallen on business owners and senior management. Perhaps now is the time for those with ultimate responsibility for the business to check in with their own needs.”
Read more…Take a moment to get a clear picture of what your admin team is doing and how everything fits together. Start by taking a hard look at how your business runs day-to-day in the form of a team snapshot.
Read more…The Bay Tree VA client portfolio is diverse. This means it is always learning something new as well as bringing its own experience to a client. One such client is Samantha Hardingham, a certified menopause specialist. Samantha’s ‘Menopause Revolution’ programme energises women to not only survive the menopause but thrive. “Menopause is a natural transition […]
Read more…Abbeycroft Leisure, based in Haverhill, works across communities in the West Suffolk and Babergh districts. Established as a Charitable Leisure Trust in 2005 and awarded social enterprise status in 2010, it is today an £11m turnover enterprise. In early 2024, Warren Smyth, CEO, made the decision to enlist the support of a Bay Tree VA, […]
Read more…Albert Einstein suggested that “Creativity is intelligence having fun” and making time to innovate and drive your business forward brings a sense of control, achievement and ambition – all destined to make you feel great and be a positive person to be around.
Read more…In an effort to raise £40bn, the 2024 Autumn Budget increased costs for employers through higher National Insurance Contributions, wage increases, and reduced thresholds…
Read more…One area new clients frequently want to get their head around is how the Bay Tree resource will present to a client’s own customers, clients and other stakeholders in their business. We are, after all, regularly reminded of the importance of employee engagement, consistency in service delivery and brand alignment. The Bay Tree team is very familiar in addressing this issue.
Read more…Technology is transforming the recruitment process and the way we resource our organisations. With that transformation comes new language and terminology. For example, ‘outsourcing’ – where companies delegate specific tasks to an external provider, such as Bay Tree VA, is growing in popularity as a resourcing solution. The role of a ‘Chief Outsourcing Officer’ (COO), […]
Read more…Delegating effectively is a challenge for many people, for both psychological and practical reasons. Are you harnessing your superpower?
Read more…For ten years, Katie had been managing her successful holiday lodge letting business. The business was sold in 2022. What to do next?
Read more…Fractional working refers to a contracted arrangement where individuals work as committed members of the team but for a fraction of the standard full-time hours.
Read more…The European Evaluation Society (EES) is a membership organisation with up to 900 members and an elected Board of Directors.
Read more…Bay Tree VA is celebrating its 15th anniversary by supporting a national charity that provides assistance dogs to children and adults with challenging medical conditions.
Read more…This case study demonstrates how a Bay Tree VA can support a busy Managing Director. Thank you to Richard Turvill for sharing his experience.
Read more…When Mark first spoke to Bay Tree, his situation was very similar to many other business owners who have managed to successfully grow their business, develop a young team, maintain a healthy client base nationally and manage their own workload.
Read more…In the four years that our Bay Tree VA has worked with us, the value of the flexibility and adaptability has been a huge asset to both me personally as CEO and the rest of the team.
Read more…Celebrating International Women’s Day 2022 with Jane Cattermole
Read more…Whilst we would all like to think we have a good grasp of MS Teams for meetings since lockdown, most of us have failed to embrace the other features of Teams that further improve communication both internally and externally.
Read more…“We immediately think of Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel and assume that everyone in the organisation is familiar with at least the basics, but businesses are missing a trick…
Read more…Ideally Bay Tree get involved before a state of over trading or burn out begins to seriously undermine the reputation or growth of the business.
Read more…January always seems a difficult month to start a new plan. The days are short, the weather dull, Christmas has dented the bank balance and so our positivity can be really low. Rather than make hard and fast resolutions from 1 January, one approach more likely to succeed is to resolve to prepare to work less hours from say, 1 March. Use these cold and dreary days to make the changes necessary to make it possible.
Read more…Bay Tree VA set the standard managing online conferences and events.
Read more…The pandemic will have forced the brakes on projects and growth for some. Equally, it will have provided new venture opportunities for others and has certainly accelerated the growth of start-up businesses, particularly in the tech sector. The typical entrepreneur starts a business based on their own competencies – essentially what they know, and getting […]
Read more…One of the questions we are frequently asked is just how working with a virtual assistant gets started, ‘where to begin’. Typically, a new client with Bay Tree will be quite uncertain about the very first steps in the relationship and how they will get the maximum benefit from their new assistant. We are used […]
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