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Virtual assistant education





Virtual assistant education can be undertaken in many forms:

  • you could surf the net and find websites such as this one that offer as much free virtual assistant education and information as possible. Click here to go to sections of this site that offer free virtual assistant training.

  • join a virtual assistant network where discussions on the associated forum are always educational. You learn so much here from other virtual assistants.

  • virtual assistant training in the form of purchasing ebooks, virtual assistant start up systems, home secretarial start up systems, starting transcription and medical transcription businesses and much more. Click here for that page.

  • virtual assistant coaching (refer this page below).

  • virtual assistant education courses (refer this page below).

  • and virtual assistant audio programs that you can listen to.
  • Virtual Assistant Advice does not endorse any of the virtual assistant education, training and books on this website. Any training links are just that, information for information purposes only.

    Please research each training listed below carefully to determine which program is most suitable to your needs.





    Virtual assistant training and coaching


    Lorraine Pirihi, Australia’s No. 1 Productivity Coach has a number of coaching programs available.

    The Office Organiser

    “Less time in your business, more time for your life: Many people ask me how I achieve so much. I get great support and ideas from The Office Organiser

    The Wonder Woman Coaching Program

    Lorraine writes "Discover how to avoid falling into the ‘Superwoman' Syndrome. It is possible to have more time, more energy and have more fun in your life. Finally here's the solution you've been looking for. An excellent home study pack delivered to the door. Contains audios and workbooks as PDF as well as bonuses."

    Click on the image
    Wonder Woman 4 Week Coaching Program

    The Productivity Coaching Club

    Lorraine writes "If YOU Are Serious About Multiplying Your Income, Increasing Your Productivity While Eliminating Stress… And Gaining A Personal Life YOU Control then you need to read every word of this letter" Click on link below to read on ...

    “Create success in your business: Many people ask me how I have learnt to be so productive while still having a life. I get great support and ideas from The Productivity Coaching Club



    Tawnya Sutherland is a professional and Certified Virtual Assistant and a Certified Internet Marketing & Business Strategist.

    She is also founder of the popular and supportive Virtual Assistant Networking Forum, VAnetworking.

    Tawnya writes... "My highly recommended Virtual Business Startup System — VBSS — which will show you, day by day, step by step, task by task, how to start up your own Virtual Assistant business easily and effectively. I give you my personal guarantee that my system will show you how to get your Virtual Assistant business up and running in no time! Infact, in just 30 days! (Yes, I just said "guaranteed." and I will tell lots more about that later on!)"

    Virtual Business Start Up System



    Kathie Thomas from A Clayton's Secretary - Master Virtual Assistant and founder of the virtual assistant industry in Australia has developed an online virtual assistant coaching program.

    The course will take 10 weeks to complete, if you do the weekly lessons during the week they arrive. It is expected that you would spend 3-5 hours per week going through the material and doing the required research.

    What will be covered:

    Weeks 1 & 2 - Setting up your business
    Week 3 - Establishing a virtual presence
    Week 4 - Inside your office
    Week 5 - Working your business
    Week 6 - Planning your day
    Week 7 - Belonging to the VA community
    Week 8 - Engaging help
    Week 9 - Web technology
    Week 10 - Professionalism & Ethics / Where to from here?
    What is the cost for this coaching program?

    Cost: $497USD or $675AUD. That's only $49.70USD or $67.50AUD a week!



    Alliance for Virtual Businesses, a leading advocacy, education and publicity organisation for administrative virtual professional entrepreneurs worldwide has four levels of membership to their organisation, each level allowing you access to further VA resources.

    Some membership benefits include access to:

    Business Development and Leadership Opportunities to challenge you and an annual international education convention

    Various Certification and Training Opportunities that offer the world’s most credible source for Internet resources, news and policies

    A VA Mentor's Program - one-on-one relationship with a VA Mentor willing to share their experience and expertise to help grow your businesses.

    The Business Growth MasterMind Program offers confidential sessions among VA group members to brainstorm and discuss issues relating to the growth and development of member businesses. Guest speakers, coaches and business experts make topic-specific presentations designed to enhance the members’ education and business growth. Members who join the MasterMind Program receive continuous feedback while identifying achievable goals and working toward attaining them.

    Click here! to go to their website for further information.



    VA Training take a unique approach to one-on-one coaching and to the area of mentoring Virtual Assistants. Their ultimate goal is to make training affordable, yet provide a comprehensive program to emerging and established Virtual Assistants.

    They have developed three group or one-on-one coaching programs and there is even an audio training program as well.



    International Association of Virtual Assistants
    has a range of virtual assistant education and training options to suit your time and budget.

    International Association of Virtual Office Assistants (IAVOA) offers training courses for virtual assistants and also specifically for real estate virtual assistants.

    University of Virtual Assistants
    teaches the virtual assistant training program (VATP through online classes. They also have a myriad of other training programs from marketing, coaching, website optimisation, professional development, you name it.

    SEVAG training centre
    offers a range of different training courses, seminars, etc. (Link may not work as they are updating their training section at the moment)

    Virtual Business U provide adult learners broad access to the highest quality education possible through a distance-learning and interactive environment. They have a specific VA industry training program.



    Lisa Taliga from Virtual PA has written a fabulous ebook called 'Freelance from Home: the 5 Key Steps to your Successful Virtual Assistant Business'.

    So if you want to know how to become a successful Virtual Assistant - The 5 Key Steps to Staying at Home and Earning a Full-Time Income, find out more at: www.virtualpabusiness.com



    Also don't forget to get your free Ebook: 7 Things You Must Know Before Starting Your Successful Virtual Assistant Business











    Resume writing course

    Beverley Neil is one of only a small number of Australian resume writers with international accreditation as a Certified Expert Resume Writer and the only resume writer offering a comprehensive resume business writing course to train other writers. Click here! to check out her course. The course is suitable for virtual assistants worldwide.



    AssistU
    offers coaching to virtual assistants. Stacy Brice, President of AssistU is a professional business and personal coach, an internationally known expert in the field of Virtual Assistance, and is widely recognised as an expert on the issues that face administrative support staff. Stacy has been coaching since 1996.

    AssistU also has a 20 week virtual assistant training program. There is so much covered in this course and it is for someone absolutely dedicated to being a top virtual assistant. There are minimum prerequisites to take the course, but it is open to the global community.

    Costs:

    Together with a small group, with five other students $2695

    One-on-one with an AssistU Trainer allowing in-depth focus on your specific needs $3595

    One-on-one with the Virtual Maven herself, Stacy Brice a terrific opportunity to learn from the one who knows more about this profession and how to become a successful VA than anyone else in the world! $8995



    Staff Centrix
    has a Portable Career & Virtual Assistant Training Program for Military Spouses. There is a minimum criteria to be accepted into the program.



    Freeskills.com
    offers free online training in many areas that can assist a virtual assistant. They also offer access to hundreds of courses for a not bad annual payment.




    Typing Web Online Typing Tutor
    is a full featured, web-based, typing tutor. Requiring only a web browser, TypingWeb contains unique features allowing you to reach your full typing potential.

    This is great for virtual assistants who may specialise in an area where typing is not highly used, but may wish to branch into transcription jobs for example, so they will need to increase their typing skills accordingly.

    There is a free trial that you can download and also take a typing test on their home page.




    Go to free ebooks and also to purchase niche area ebooks as below





    Go to free virtual assistant education resources

    Go to military spouse training
    for virtual assistant education specific to this group of people.

    Go to home medical transcription school
    for home based online medical transcription training.

    Go to virtual assistant networks

    Go to virtual assistant certification



    More virtual assistant education and virtual assistant coaching and training is being added periodically, so please check back soon.







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