Outsourcing Tip Winner Announced…How to Organize Your Outsourcing
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Hi guys, Greg Purnell gets the V for this contest and wins a free ticket to my Lifestyle Business boot camp!
Here’s why I chose his…there are lots of productivity tips on how to get more done YOURSELF in less time, or one-time tasks you could describe to someone, assign, and follow up on.
But a whole level beyond that is to allow someone else to transform your vision of what you want into details and then execute as well.
Then, you get the same benefits of someone doing the work for you, but you also get free of the details, the organizing, the planning, the thinking through every step of the way, which can really add up over time.
So you can write detailed systems for routine tasks that you want done exactly the way you want it done, but it’s also nice to be able to just say “please do this” and have that person be smart enough to really think it through and make it happen even better than you could yourself.
Also, sending my assistants tasks by audio recordings (just use an Olympus digital recorder and email your voice notes as attachments) has helped remind me that I can just describe what I want, without typing it [slow], and can give more detail if needed in less time.
So there’s something to be said for details as long as you can communicate them in a really efficient way.
The moral of the story is to hire a superstar team that “gets” what you’re saying without a bunch of questions, but can just figure stuff out on their own to give you the result you want, which is more important than the means of getting it done, anyway.
I would only document a checklist or detailed instructions for something if it is going to be a routine task done in your business over and over that you want done exactly in a certain way.
One-time tasks and everything else, just rattle the tasks off to your team as fast as you can, and, as long as you hired right watch them soar.
You can see the other Outsourcing Tips readers submitted here.
