Clint Eastwood had a fairly unique way of providing feedback to people he dealt with! While there may be a few bosses out there who secretly do Dirty Harry impressions in front of their bedroom mirrors, we would strongly suggest an approach to the subject of how to...
If your boss invites you to a spontaneous one on one meeting in a disused warehouse you may want to consider moving on, before he does it for you! In all seriousness, part of successfully managing virtual teams is arranging regular one on one meetings with each of...
Just like with most of the household fast food franchise names that …excuse the pun… roll off the tongue, like Pizza Hut, Burger King and KFC, both offline and online business systems need to be broken down into …excuse the pun…bite-size pieces that are easily… excuse...
Whether you’re running Springfield Nuclear Power Plant or a team of remote workers in an SEO company, you don’t want your best staff coming in through the front door only to be out the back door a few months later. You need to retain employees, donuts and all!...
Mention “workflow management system” and it can conjure up images of expansive flow-charts and long drawn out processes in labs, but it’s really not that complicated. It’s basically mapping out exactly how you want your staff to complete a task...
The WWW method boils down effective project management tips to the Who, What and When of a job task and here we show you how to use that method to get the best out of your remote team. Any project you run will need to center around answering the 3 W’s: That is...
Getting smart with the way you set up the pay structure for your virtual assistant can go a long way to driving performance and productivity and can get your remote workforce into the right habits straight off the bat. To explain a bit more, it might be worth trying,...
We spoke in a previous post about some of the main advantages of using remote online communication tools. Here we detail some of the best around and which you can start using today for better communication with your virtual team. These tools can roughly be broken down...
Once we have gone to the effort of getting our high calibre virtual employee in place, with some tailored advertisements, pre-screening, assessments, tasks and some in-depth interviewing, it’s important that we get them trained up quickly and effectively. Again...
Being able to manage your team of virtual assistants can be challenging but is key to the success of your business. We already know that it takes work to assemble a team of individuals that is motivated, honest, skilled and communicative, but once you’ve got...
