What your current team challenges say about your delegating style
How you are showing up for your team sets a precedence for how they are going to show up for you. While delegating may seem pretty black and white - get the things off your plate that you shouldn’t be doing - your delegating style is either creating a monster or creating your dream team. Following are three different delegating styles. What’s yours? The Ostrich You are great at giving your team the freedom to work independently, your schedule is free from team meetings (which you consider a waste of time), and you have successfully delegated things you don’t have to do,...
When should I hire a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant can help you serve more clients, have more time to work on your business and work towards your big mission, and give you more free time to enjoy life outside of your business as well. A great VA can help you do all of this by doing the things in your business that you should not be doing. However, you need to be ready to bring on a team member. Here are 3 tips for knowing when the time is right. When you can afford help First and foremost you need to be able to afford to commit to a...
3 things to look for when hiring a Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager (#3 is where the magic happens!)
Finding a great Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager can feel really overwhelming. They are out there but if you don’t know what to look for, you might end up making a poor hiring decision. In fact, I hear from so many Transformational Coaches and Leaders that they have been putting off finding the support they need (and deserve!) because it’s just too overwhelming or they just don’t know where to start. The truth is, there are people out there who want to support you on your mission and free you up to do what you do best - coach and...
One concept to help you increase team efficiency
Working with a team in a virtual environment has lots of challenges. To ensure things run smoothly and your team is supported to get sh*t done, keep this one concept mind: Centralization. How can you centralize everything so that your team has one place to go to find information, get updates on tasks and to-dos, and communicate with each other? Conceptual business illustration with the words centralisation Centralize Information - If your team is constantly coming to you with questions, try this! You want your team to have one place to go to easily easily access information, written processes and systems, links, etc. If...