TVC 059 Creating Culture with Virtual Teams
Balancing your budget and your business when working with virtual teams... What about creating the culture for your brand with people you've never met?
In a growing online world where entrepreneurs, online marketers and stay at home mums are running businesses from anywhere - there's been a huge rise in the number of virtual jobs up for grabs.
The job market has opened up online, businesses can run from anywhere.
All of a sudden Virtual VA's, EA's, freelancers, design, website gurus and experts in admin are popping up from India to Los Angeles and Ukraine to the Philippines.
Their promise: to help you make your work day easier and build the company you want.
A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team, distributed team, or remote team) is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organisational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Source wikipedia
So how do you know the best resource for you.
Can we actually create a sustainable connection and culture with people you've never met?
We'll that's exactly what today's podcast is about.  Friend, and 'mr online' himself I chat Virtual Culture with Studio One Founder Greg Merrilees.  Greg shares his view about the power of finding virtual support for your products and service.
We know what it's like to try and find your dream team, to grow your business and start the element of outsourcing or expanding your own team.
Which ever way you decide to go there's still an art to creating a culture and placing some clear guidelines up front so you and your resources can be connected and engaged on the job at hand.
In this podcast we review
When's the best time to think about bringing in extra support
How to you determine who you need and what tasks can be fulfilled
On-boarding your support people
Creating a culture that spans countries and timezones
The importance of personal connection
Being authentic
Recognising when you need a person in house rather than online representing you and your brand.
Team Vitality is made up of a combined resource from overseas design, transcription support to onsite business and customer relationship development, key design and style gurus: plus a little black book of much loved film crew, photographers and support staff who I've worked with for the last 10 years.
No matter what size of business you're running when ever you bring new people into your business it's important to recognise they are there to add value and feel like a part of the journey, as much as is relevant.
Don't expect everyone to have your evangelistic drive for what you do and how you do it. be open to fresh ideas and be clear about expectations and deliverables from the get go.
 
 
Bringing your business and your brand to life with those you work with is a continued evolution and a fine balance that takes a combination of processes and passion to really make it work.
We learn as we grow and that goes for both sides of the entrepreneurial fence.
Culture can be created virtually you just need to define what that is in the first place and what it looks like for those that are working with you from afar.
Be professional, work out your budgets, your skills required and don't skimp on the human factor of showing appreciation and connection to the bigger picture.