What do I expect from my assistants?

It’s obvious, isn’t it? Straightforward, old-fashioned clichés such as good work ethic, team player, flexible with a good sense of humour, combined with a willingness to take on increasing levels of responsibility with advancing years post-qualification. However, as always, it’s not quite that simple and establishing clear, fair targets, creating the correct environment for the individual to flourish and instigating timely unbiased methods of assessing progress requires significant effort from both the business owner and the associate ...