Amber McCue is the founder of NiceOps, an organization that helps busy business owners learn to manage their time and business efficiently and effectively. She is a business operations expert passionate about helping entrepreneurs streamline their success through process-oriented, procedure-based strategies.
Amber joins me in this episode to discuss how entrepreneurs can get more accomplished by outsourcing tasks in their business. She also shares the secrets to building a winning team. We discuss how to identify what tasks you should consider outsourcing as well as the steps to take when hiring your first team member.
It takes a lot of energy to run a business. - Amber McCue
In This Episode of The Sigrun Show:
- The importance of defining your values before you build a winning team
- How to treat contractors as team members
- Maintaining relationships with your contractors – even between projects
- Whether or not to hold regular team meetings
- Handling responsiveness and creating project charters
- Creating an organizational chart
- What to include in a job description
- Creating a “What Must I Do” list to identify what you should not outsource
- Mindset shifts associated with hiring and building a team
Key Takeaways:
- Define your values as a business
- Conduct a simulation test task
- Maintain communication and relationships with your team
- Create metrics to know whether tasks are achieving results