In this conversation, Barbara Turley, founder and CEO of The Virtual Hub, discusses the evolution and current state of virtual staffing, emphasizing the importance of integrating support teams to enhance business efficiency. She highlights the impact of COVID-19 on remote work acceptance and the necessity of having a structured approach to managing remote teams. Barbara also shares best practices for ensuring success in remote work environments and explores the role of AI in enhancing virtual assistance. The discussion concludes with resources for those looking to build effective remote teams.
Key Points in the Conversation with Josh Elledge of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast:
- The Virtual Hub serves scale-up companies needing operational support
- The acceptance of remote teams
- How companies are re-evaluating their staffing strategies due to economic pressures
- The importance of having a support layer to free up time for business leaders
- How using the right tools and processes is crucial to effective remote work
- Why cultural fit and integration are crucial for remote team success
- How AI tools can enhance the efficiency of virtual assistants
- Improving team performance through objectives and key results
- Building a digital-first company architecture is vital for remote work
- Increasing business asset value by systematizing processes
Key Takeaways:
“A lot of companies are not set up with the right operational frameworks in order to make remote work, work. If you want to make remote and distributed teams work really effectively, you need the Tooling the right architecture online.You need to build the company digital first, and everybody needs to be connected in the cloud”
"We're all in business obviously to create impact and to do amazing things, but it is also an asset and the better your business is built, the more systemized a business is, the higher the asset value of that company and the cheaper the support layer you can get in to run it. So there's a whole myriad of reasons why you would want to have a well built, well oiled, systemized process map, digital first type company.and putting in the support layer or virtual assistants is kind of the big icing on the cake, but the real key is actually building the company properly"