Running a business is a team sport — and nobody plays more positions than our office manager!

If you've ever been voluntold onto a committee or single-handedly held an office together with a spreadsheet and sheer will, this mini-blog series is for you. Our office wizard - Tania Putu - digs down into the practical, the messy, and the mildly chaotic world of modern office management:

3 – The Modern Office Manager: from coffee fetcher to chaos coordinator, we do it all!

Once upon a time it was just answering phones and filing papers, but today’s office managers juggle schedules, projects, and personalities—all while keeping the office running like a charm. In a SME like ours, our Office Manager is part payroll officer, part accountant, part compliance manager, part IT support… and occasionally a detective! Read more….

2 – Balancing voluntary roles with full-time work (without losing your mind)

“Balancing full-time work and volunteering is easy…” said no one, ever! Sometimes volunteering can feel less like giving back and more like starring in a very underpaid sequel of Survivor: Committee Edition. In Tania’s eyes, volunteering should add joy, not take away your sleep. And if you escape a meeting without being volunteered/voluntold for yet another role? That’s a victory worth celebrating. Read more…

1 - Busy bosses, manic managers & flat-out founders: my top tips for wrangling them!

The first in her mini-blog series, where Tania shares her thoughts on topics relevant to all administrators out there. Founder-support roles like hers need a unique set of talents, skilfully applied. In quintessential Tania-style she captures her top tips with juicy dollop of humour - complete with 'morning ambushes', 'flaming bag drops' and 'swooping seagull' moves. Read more…

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