How To Lead A Successful Remote Team In 6 Steps With Sandra Lewis From Worldwide101 [AMP 105]
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- Key 1 - Hire for passion: You want them to be interested, passionate, and obsessive in your service and product
- Key 2 - Analyze skill sets and strengths: Worldwide101 has two pillars that categorize someone's strength - structured or creative
- Key 3 - Amplify those strengths: Amplifying a strength is having someone do what they do best; also look at what can complement a core strength (soft skills)
- Key 4 - Provide ongoing learning opportunities: Keep people engaged and provide a path and cross training for them to grow their strengths
- Key 5 - Provide great tools: Try new tools and build a tool stack that helps workers be more efficient and productive
- Key 6 - Over communicate: Have face-to-face meetings, acknowledge every email, set check-in times to build trust and get to know someone remotely
- To lead a successful remote team, keep it personal; do little things that make working remotely less isolated; love the people you work with and celebrate them
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- “My company allows for successful business owners and executives to subscribe to staff without having to employ them themselves.”
- “Over-communicate. That is super important when you're remote, when you can't see each other.”
- “The first thing to do to amplify strength is to make sure you give that person what they're good at.”
- “Everyone wants to keep learning, it's part of staying motivated in what you do.”
How To Lead A Successful Remote Team In 6 Steps With Sandra Lewis From Worldwide101 @BestVirtualHelp
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Jordan: Howdy marketers? Interesting stat for you to kick things off. A recent Gallup study found that over 40% of the American workforce works remote some of the time every single year, and up to 70% of the global workforce does sell as well. So if you're listening to this, chances are pretty good, you work remotely some or all of the time too. And if so, today's episode will be especially interesting to you because I'm joined by Sandra Lewis. She is the founder of Worldwide101. A premium subscription staffing company with virtual assistance, expert marketers, and more all across the world. So with a team of about 100 remote workers, Sandra has a wealth of experience about what it takes to make remote teams ultra successful. In today's episode, she shares six keys to doing just that. My name is Jordan Loftis I'm one of your hosts. Now, let's jump right into my conversation with Sandra. Sandra, thank you so much for being on the show today. Well can you just start by telling us what you're up to these days? I know there have been some changes and pivots at Worldwide101 recently that I'm really interested in, can you tell us more about that? Sandra: Sure. It's so great to be here. Thanks so much for having me. Over the last six months, my team and I have been really hard at work, refining the way that we talk about and the way that we explain our brand. So in our case, the new messaging that we've been talking about is describing our service as a premium subscription staffing company. So while we haven’t actually changed that much in terms of our core service offering, we've decided to make an emphasis on subscription and staffing as a subscription to appeal to a broader audience. Obviously, everyone is super familiar with subscription these days. In fact, we often joked that most business owners nowadays don't actually own anything and that we subscribe to everything. So tools, software, office space, obviously including subscribing to a service like CoSchedule to make our lives easier. My company allows for successful business owners and executives to subscribe to staff without having to employ them themselves.![](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/105_Sandra-Podcast-Graphics-03.png?w=3840&q=75)
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