General administrative tasks you can outsource:

Documentation Preparation

Documentation preparation can include developing and formatting key documents for your business. Whether that’s creating templates, policies and procedures, or correspondence. Ensuring all your business documents look professional, and reflect your brand.

Email and Diary Management

Sorting your inbox can be a tedious job. Have a professional clean up your inbox, ensuring the important emails are never missed, and the others are actioned appropriately. Email management might also include diary management, making sure there are no conflicts in your diary, adequate travel time is allocated, and organising meetings.

File Management and Streamlining Processes

Record keeping is important for any business. If you’re saving documents in one breath and losing them in the next, you may need to organise your filing system. This can include streamlining processes, as well as developing a naming convention for your files so they can be easily located at any moment.

Data Entry and Research

Data entry and research can come hand in hand depending on the requirements. Data entry is something which can easily be outsourced and can save you time and money. Need a location for an event? Or looking into new software? These are tasks an administrator can do, and deliver in an easy-to-read format for you to make a quick decision.

Communication

Communication can cover a multitude of tasks, such as communicating with clients and team members or drafting correspondence to be distributed, whether it be via existing software, phone, instant messaging or email systems. Don't spend all morning trying to draft your newsletter, outsource and edit where necessary, having final approval.

General administration can look a little different across industries. However, the primary function of support and organisation remains the same.

Refer back to this post when you're thinking of outsourcing those pesky admin tasks.