Archive for July, 2008

Hiring a concierge service or personal assistant can give you more of the most precious resource - TIME. Business executives, by nature, are busy people; company meetings, sales conferences, business reports, management duties, delegation, training, and other duties take most of their time. Even with the greatest time management skills, there is still not enough time in the day for them to do what needs to be done. Concierge services and personal assistants are trained to do their menial, day-to-day, tasks with professionalism and competence.

Take the following sample list of chores that a personal assistant can perform and think how much time a busy executive can save by having a professional do them for him:

Making travel arrangements
Booking conference rooms for meetings
Household management
Event Planning
Buying gifts for birthdays
Car washes
Administrative office work
Filing
Pet care
Dry cleaning
Last minute courier deliveries
Grocery shopping

These are all tasks that a busy executive can outsource to a professional personal assistant. It should be time-management 101.

The average cost of hiring a personal assistant is $65/hour. When considering if this is worth it you should consider the opportunity cost of a high-paid business executive doing these types of menial tasks. Let us say that a business executive earns $200/hour. That means that his time is worth $200/hour as well. It is the same as him paying himself $200 each hour that he does these duties. If, on the other hand, he can hire a concierge service to do the same work for $65/hour then it is worth it. The opportunity cost in this example is $135/hour (The difference between what his time is worth and what he can pay someone to do the work). Not only would this business executive create more time for important business tasks by hiring a personal assistant but he would also create more time for himself - time, a precious commodity that he can spend on the more important things in life like friends and family.

Hiring a concierge service or personal assistant can be well worth the investment. Even corporate concierge is available if you want to hire a service for your company.

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With its historical monuments and rich cultural heritage, Hannover is one of the beautiful and charming cities in the north. The city was a former royal capital even having its prince until these days. It’s also widely famous for hosting international exhibitions, having here the Expo in 2000. Many facilities and attractions were added, restored and renovated before that year as preparations for the big event.

The attractions…

Inner city

One can start in the Kroepcke, where you can find the famous Kroepcke clock. From there, there are a lot of ways to go - shopping, shopping and more shopping. The area is obviously the center for shopping. You can go into the direction of the Main Train Station by going under a very nice shopping promenade, Niki-de-Saint-Phalle. Most shops here are open till late in the evening.

If you see a church or something which belongs to the old city, go there and you should find a red line on the ground. This red line is used as a guide for tours. It should bring you to the famous attractions of the inner city. Like for example the beautiful old timbered houses in the old town, the Leibniz house, the old and new city hall or the opera.

Activities

Hannover Zoo

For families, the Hannover zoo is an ideal destination. The zoo was very well designed and landscaped, giving you the feeling (and probably the animals too) that you’re in the wild.

Maschsee

It’s a beautiful and relaxing place to stroll, but not just that, you can also rent sailing or paddling boats to enjoy more of the lake’s calm water. If you’re lazy to paddle, then you can take boat tours. This lake hosts to numerous big parties of the city.

Herrenhausergaerten - Royal Gardens

This is a huge collection of gardens. You probably need one day to walk around the area. Aside from being huge, it’s also very impressive so something to see and experience definitely. The garden design is a copy of the Versailles. When this was made, that was the time when the Versailles garden got really famous and everyone wanted to have a copy of it.

Have fun and enjoy your stay in Hannover!

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