Secrets to Outsourcing Successfully with Michelle Thompson

07/05/22 | 32:29 | Ep 41

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What if you could get just five tasks off your plate? That’s all it takes to get started according to Michelle Thompson, owner of Awesome Outsourcing. In today’s episode, we’re going over everything you need to have in place to successfully bring on a new team member and have them thrive.

From how to know when it’s time to hire to exactly what you need to have prepared before a new team member’s first day, Michelle and I talk about making sure you set your new team member (and yourself) up for success. The biggest secret? A little bit of preparation goes a long way.

In today’s episode we covered:

How to know when it’s time to bring on an additional team member
How to figure out what your next hire should be (and how it’ll affect your bottom line)
The difference between an executive assistant and a virtual assistant
What you need to do to prepare for your new hire
How to make sure you’re appealing to all types of learning styles
How to have your employees update and manage your standard operating procedures (SOPs)
The tools you need to find, hire and manage your team members

Resources Mentioned

Connect with Michelle Thompson

Michelle Thompson went from being an MBA graduate to having a second-grade IQ level overnight after suffering from a life-altering stroke at only 36 years of age. Literally starting her life over again, she’s had to learn how to automate and outsource as much as humanly possible. Now she’s on a mission to help others find freedom from all the unnecessary tasks they do, using the strategies and systems she’s successfully created for herself.

After receiving her bachelor’s in counseling from Valley Forge University, she went on to earn her MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Ashford University. After suffering a life-altering stroke, she left her corporate career and built systems to help her navigate day-to-day life and business. Combining her strategies with her talents of untangling people’s problems to create actionable and easy-to-follow plans for them to hand things off, her business Awesome Outsourcing, LLC was born.

Michelle teaches people how to delegate and outsource tasks correctly so they can gain back their time and their lives. Awesome Outsourcing, LLC specializes in pre-training executive assistants for you so you can delegate your <$25 hour tasks.

Her courses include how to delegate tasks to others without a dip in quality or the need to micromanage, helping clients hire, train, and manage a team, and how to hand tasks off to be magically delivered back completed.

Her podcast Automate to Dominate follows her amazing journey of automating and outsourcing her way to financial freedom, sharing everything she learns along the way about building multiple passive income streams in numerous areas of life. This show is for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to build passive income streams to create the freedom they have always dreamt about, and aren’t afraid to work for it.

Website: Awesome Outsourcing LLC

Book: Running on Autopilot: How To Find, Hire, Train and Remotely Manage A Virtual Assistant

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Freebie: Path to Freedom Discovery Tool