Kaleidoscope News

Kaleidoscope is four years old!

Happy birthday to Kaleidoscope!

We’re raising glasses to the little one’s birthday at the new Kaleidoscope headquarters in York, which is also our new home, as we moved house last week.

Today is my first day back at work and, apart from a few technical hiccups, both myself and the business are settling in well.

It hardly seems real that almost four years ago to the day I left my job as PA to the finance director at Northern Rail in York. That happened on a Friday in late March and on the following Monday, Kaleidoscope was launched.

Virtual Assistant goes back to school

I’m going back to school in a few weeks!

I’ve become involved in the Young Enterprise project for primary schools, which is a volunteer programme open to anyone who would like to help inspire young people aged between 4 and 25 to learn and succeed through enterprise.

It’s based on the need to expand children's learning beyond the curriculum. The volunteers are there to help with passing on essential life and work skills through topics and stories covering work, saving, earning, decision-making and teamwork. The older students create and run real companies with help from business mentors.

Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant Services are moving

We’re all of a flurry at Kaleidoscope HQ this week as we’re moving house at the end of March.

Along with the countless things it takes to do and remember to make a home move go smoothly, there’s a lot to sort out in terms of moving the business, too.

Most of the planning I’m busy with at the moment is to ensure my clients receive a completely seamless service from Kaleidoscope – hopefully they’ll be barely aware anything has changed.

Part of ensuring this is the case is keeping myself calm and free from stress – a challenge at times, as there are a lot of emotional ups and downs to deal with. It’s another reason why advance planning is essential for managing a move like this.

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We'd just like to wish everyone who reads and supports Kaleidoscope and our blog a very Merry Christmas!

Things have gone quiet on the blog front - which is very unusual for me; this is the first time we've missed a week in more than 18 months of blogging!

Kaleidoscope is 100% trustworthy

It’s official – we’re 100% trusted by our clients

That and some other very positive and encouraging results from a survey Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant Services ran recentlly will light the way forward for us in the future.

I asked our clients about their experience of our service – and we received some very positive responses.

Seeding success at York Business Week

A big well done to everyone involved in making York Business Week 2011 such an amazing success.

The sheer creativity and talent on display here shone out, and the positivity and goodwill of the week struck myself and everyone I’ve spoken to who attended an event.

The stand-out event for me was the Big Bang Partnership’s creativity workshop, run by Jo North. It was a taster session for their day-long course in November, which I can’t recommend strongly enough. Unfortuately I won’t be there, but I’ve written to them already to request they run another in the New Year.