SYS 008: Managing, Delegating and Operationally Developing a Remote Team
In this episode of systemize your success, Steve talks about how to manage a remote team, delegate your tasks effectively, how to avoid pushback and how to get your team to develop your operation manuals for you.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- When you are working with people remotely, having a really good task management system in place can be the difference between chaos and success. It doesn’t matter what app you are using but it needs to work for you and meet your needs. Steve recommends the task manager Asana, as the free version still has great functionality.
- Avoid using emails or instant messengers to assign tasks as you cannot easily share what is happening with others. It can also get quite incoherent and confusing very quickly.
- How you approach asking a freelancer/VA/contractor how they do their tasks for you is a delicate thing. You do not want them to think you are asking because you are going to stop working with them, but you also need this information to protect your business. One way to do this is to sell it to them, by pointing out without documenting it they will not be able to take holiday or progress.
- Steve and his company use the Didact framework to create systems easily and quickly for great results. For your free version go to http://bit.ly/sys-006
BEST MOMENTS
“I have total visibility of what anyone is doing at any one time”
“If knowledge is in somebody’s head and not documented outside of that it isn’t knowledge that’s part of the business”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: Systems and Outsourcing
Systems and Outsourcing Website
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
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