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How To Manage a Virtual Team Successfully
See how Brent Clayton, owner of Fire Recruitment Australia Successfully Manages a Virtual Team.
One of the biggest mistakes I see people make when running a virtual team is not having the correct systems in place. An effective and harmonious team must be forged together in order to thrive so that when employing other team members, they do not enter into a less than desirable, or broken, system.
If the systems and communication rhythm and strategy being used is broken, or is not productive, adding more team members into this ecosystem will create more stress and issues for the person responsible for the team.
It Starts With You
To start a virtual team that is scalable, you need to have a fundamental understanding of all the moving parts that are required for the team to operate effectively.
Once you have a clear picture of the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual operations required, you can go about auditing these tasks so that they can be allocated appropriately. You want to get to a point where you, as the team leader, owner, or CEO are only completing a high-value task that only you can do OR working on strategy and new opportunities and partnerships for…
