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Improving Mental Health in the Workplace

Read five ways in which Bay Tree can help you maintain a healthy and stress-free team…

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Bay Tree VA Welcomes New Director

Bay Tree VA is delighted to announce the appointment of Louise Harbidge as Director – Operations & Team Engagement. Louise, who has been an integral part of the Bay Tree team over 14 years, will join Founder Jane Cattermole in leading the business into its next chapter. 

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What keeps you awake at 3am

“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.”

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Breaking the isolation: How a team approach can reconnect business owners 

“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.”   

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3 Steps to Lean and Scalable: The way to run a business today 

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.

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How Bay Tree VA is making an impact with Abbeycroft Leisure

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, […]

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Headspace – the best leaders can’t live without it 

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. 

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What do you do best?

We often use the expression ‘do what you do best and leave us to do the rest’ when setting up a new working relationship

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How Bay Tree VA came to the rescue of a drowning business owner

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.

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Delegation, Delegation, Delegation

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.

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In the beginning, with a Bay Tree VA

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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