Estate Management professionals must keep track of guest arrivals, staff schedules, contractor visits, and much more. Technology is an essential addition to your Estate Manager skills that drastically increases your efficiency, reliability, and relevance.

Why Consider Upgrading Your Tech Skill Set?

Times have changed. Not being current with the latest technology can mean being left behind.

Technological advancements happen fast. Making it a priority to be as or more technologically savvy than your Principal simply makes sense. This busy career also demands that Estate Managers stay on top of even the smallest details—something that would be virtually impossible without technology.

Technology Is Everywhere

From their home office to vehicles and everything in between, technology is ever-present in a Principal’s home. You’ll need to know how to use their computer programs and related hardware and how to set up or install software and peripherals. Making regular data back-ups to the cloud may also be on your task list, along with digital file management.

Corresponding with your Principal, staff, and others involved with the estate will require fluency in the setup and use of online calendars, accounts and passwords, meeting software, and similar.

Your Principal’s home likely has several forms of technology that will be important for you to know how to manage. Home security systems with cameras and motion sensors, irrigation systems, thermostats, and appliances are likely to all be digital, along with most components in vehicles.

In order to fulfill your primary role of ensuring the estate runs smoothly with no disruptions or as few as possible, you will also need to be able to troubleshoot and resolve technological issues or have contact information for someone who can.

Getting Up to Speed

There is so much new technology that it can be difficult to know where to start. Conducting some research into the latest apps and software can be a good beginning. Training classes and videos are two ideal ways to become familiar with current technology.

Next, request a meeting with your Principal to discuss the technology they use, as well as any new technology they may be interested in implementing.

Essential Tech for Estate Managers

Enter “software for Estate Managers” into any search engine, and you will discover many options. Estate management software allows you to centralize and simplify your communication, activity organization, data tracking, inventory, and more.

Why incorporate estate management systems into your day-to-day duties? Because these systems have been designed to consolidate the information you may currently have in several files or on paper and make them easy to access in seconds.

These digital tools help you organize and control contact, staff, maintenance, and other information and allow you to update as needed. Connecting a Principal to this data allows them to see you update information and mark tasks as completed in real-time, which can provide peace of mind that all is being taken care of.

Most software will allow you to transfer data to your Principal and receive instructions, and information can be accessed and updated via phone, tablet, or laptop so that everything you need is always wherever you happen to be.

Estate management systems are effective whether you are in charge of a single property or must travel to manage several properties.

As well, these products are highly secure, ensuring that data is encrypted so that your Principal’s sensitive information is always kept from prying eyes.

Some examples of tasks and items that can be managed with this software include, but are not limited to:

• Household financials and budgets
• Restocking of food items
• Updating social media
• Scheduling of vehicle, home, or grounds maintenance and repairs
• Training of household staff
• Management of yacht crews, onboard events, and supplies
• Review of home surveillance footage
• Setting smart thermostats before and after Principals and guests arrive or leave a residence

Technology Helps You Maintain Control

Having multiple files, paper records, or handwritten notes can mean spending hours trying to locate needed information. Technology provides the opportunity to create, edit, share, store, and house information in the same location, safely and securely, ultimately allowing you to maintain complete control of information.

Are You a Skilled Estate Manager?

Managing one or more luxury estates requires patience, confidence, and skill. If you are an experienced Estate Manager who understands the importance of technical skills to keep you in high demand, Staffing at Tiffanie’s wants to learn more about you.

Our premier Domestic Staffing Agency discreetly matches Clients with the perfect Estate Managers and other household staff. We hand-select only the top professionals in their areas of expertise, using a comprehensive system that reveals more about our candidate’s work ethic, personality, beliefs, and lifestyle.

We possess 26 years of experience in the matching and placement of qualified Domestic Staff, as well as extensive experience working in the industry. This gives us a unique perspective that allows us to exceed the expectations of our Clients and their prospective household staff alike.

Our experience places us in a position to offer guidance and support throughout the placement and hiring process. At Staffing at Tiffanie’s, you’ll join other top professionals who are seeking exclusive access to Domestic Staffing roles in the homes of many high-profile Clients.

If you’re an experienced Estate Manager who is interested in working with our agency, we invite you to visit our Job Seekers page and complete our application form.