Opening The Kimono On How Any Entrepreneur Can Use Virtual Teams To Start Liberating Time… Successfully!
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On this very first episode, we open the kimono on the key challenges we see people facing when it comes to how to use a virtual team.
                                                                                       
Liberating time is really the number one reason entrepreneurs look to hire virtual assistants so they can then utilise their precious time on more high value, business growth activities.
Unfortunately, it is not as easy as people think !
 
Often people get tripped up very quickly and can end up getting frustrated and giving up. They throw their hands in the air and decide that outsourcing just doesn’t work for them or their type of business.
 
Sadly, we see these entrepreneurs and their business growth plans suffer when they try to outsource and then suffer again when they can’t get it right.
The purpose of this show is:

To educate more entrepreneurs on how to successfully implement and maximise the use of virtual teams in their businesses
To provide strategies, tactics and action steps that boost success throughout that implementation process
To talk about our own experiences and those of our clients case study style
To interview the many entrepreneurs out there that have achieved success with virtual teams both small and large – the pros and cons, do’s and dont’s.

To kick things off in this episode we dived into:

How every business across every industry can make great use of virtual teams for business growth – even when they are convinced it wont work for them !
Why thinking you are a great communicator and actually being a great communicator can be two very different things.
Why slowing down to speed up is one of the most pivotal things you can do to grow your business.
How to delegate so you gain control instead of lose control.
How to take the guess work, misses and mistakes out of your virtual experience.
Let us know in the comments below what your key take out has been from this episode or if you have something cool to add – also let us know.

Systems and tools we mention in this show:

Asana Project ManagementSkypeSlack ChatDropvox

In this episode:

01:04 – Using virtual teams for business growth

06:42 – Being a great communicator

08:00 – Create a recurring task list

11:25 – Use a project management tool

13:10 – Create a meeting rhythm with your team

15:35 – Build rapport

18:17 – Be direct in your communications

22:06 – Working out your communication style

26:32 – Slow down to speed up

29:57 – Wrapping things up

Do you find yourself running out of time to accomplish your work? Are you spending time doing things that you’re not that good at? There are effective ways to outsource this task so you can focus on your business.

This is the Virtual Success Show. We bring the inside scoop on outsourcing success for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs and now here are your hosts, Matt Malouf and Barbara Turley.

Barbara: Hey everyone, welcome to the show. I am very excited to be co-hosting with Matt Malouf. Matt how is it going?

Matt: It’s going great Barbara, how are you go today?

Barbara: Pretty good, excited to be kicking off our first show together.

Matt: I sure am. It just seems like yesterday that we were sitting around having a coffee talking about the challenges our clients and we were having with virtual teams, then we came up with the idea for this podcast. And here we are.
Using virtual teams for business growth
Barbara: Absolutely, yeah I know. We were just chatting and saying that one of the things that nobody is talking about is how do we solve some of the challenges that we face when you have virtual teams because it’s not easy. Let’s face it.

Matt: Absolutely. You know, I think the idea and ideal of a virtual team is attractive to a lot of people but then wading through the minefield of challenges like in most team...