How to Delegate Better

Posted on October 22, 2024October 22, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

How to Delegate Better

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“Delegate and Elevate” We know! We know! We’ve heard it a million times. But still, there are tasks we refuse to give up to anyone else even though they are not the best use of our time, or energy.

What if there were a super simple method that finally moved the needle from the common excuses?

It’s easier if I just do it myself
I don’t trust anyone on the team to do it as well as I would
I don’t want to lose money, or get embarrassed. I don’t want to deal with it going poorly.

What if finally we were spending our time on plans and tasks that made our companies more competitive, aggressive, or profitable instead of protecting our downside? It’s possible with effective delegation if we can just get ourselves to do it.

Redefining leadership: Kathleen Mayfield on delegation and growth

Mastering Delegation with Kathleen Mayfield

Kathleen Mayfield from Bloom Growth is an expert on delegation, and she shared her simple yet effective insights on how to delegate and empower teams so leaders can really spend time on growth initiatives, and elevate out of the day to day.

What is Kathleen’s simple method? The Apprenticeship Square.

Before you roll your eyes and say this is way too simple. There is no way this will work. Consider that much of the time we don’t go all in on tools like this. We’re never truly committed. Being an entrepreneur myself, I hate feeling restricted, I am rebellious by nature and I like these tools in theory but historically had a hard time sticking to them.I would tell myself, “I’m doing it in spirit.” But I have found that when I go 100% in on a proven methodology deliberately with discipline I do end up getting the results promised. However, anything short of that doesn’t work.

It is my experience that the more leaders stick to the script of proven processes the more disciplined and organized and better organizations run. If you are serious about elevating and delegating try the apprenticeship square.

What is the Apprenticeship Square?

Kathleen has developed a tool called the Apprenticeship Square, which is a step-by-step approach to teaching tasks:

Show Them How: Begin by demonstrating the task to your team member.

Do It Together: Work on the task together, allowing them to ask questions and learn.

Observe and Feedback: Let them perform the task while you observe and provide feedback.

Independent Execution: Finally, they do the task on their own, reporting back to you as needed.

This methodical and intentional approach creates spaces for people to succeed or learn from their mistakes, making the business operator more comfortable with delegation.

Implementing the Method Successfully

Kathleen stresses the importance of consistency. Using the Apprenticeship Square consistently ensures clarity and minimizes errors, fostering a culture of effective delegation within your organization.

Communication: The Key to Success

Kathleen is very clear that she actually takes the square out for every task she is intending to delegate. She is very methodical about it. The person she is teaching is very clear on which part of the square they are in.

This is where entrepreneurs struggle. We don’t like to be methodical. We take the idea of this to heart but we don’t actually do it with the discipline of getting the square out. We do it “our way,” we take the approach “in spirit.” However, when we don’t do it in a deliberate disciplined manner we lack clarity and mistakes are made. Then we go back to the old way of doing things and claim that approach doesn’t work. The trick is to actually use the square visual. Talk through this as a methodical approach, make sure you and the person you are delegating the work to are clear on which step you are on and clear when the official hand off has been to the next step.

Kathleen also discusses how she communicates in the process so that her delegation technique doesn’t come across as micromanaging: “I just started to teach them how to be in communication. How I like to receive and give communication, I told them that me asking a lot of questions didn’t mean I was micromanaging them, and so on.” She believes that clear and open communication is essential to prevent misunderstandings and build trust.

Embracing Generosity and Trust

The key to really handing big responsibilities to others is to be generous and build trust. When there is a problem Kathleen says not to assume the worst right off the bat. She believes that generosity and trust are key to effective leadership and delegation. Leaders should demonstrate authenticity and encourage their teams to do the same.

Delegation in Rapid Growth Scenarios

When a business is scaling quickly, going through the Apprenticeship Square can create freedom and distribute the weight among the team. This approach allows the business to grow exponentially and helps entrepreneurs elevate themselves out of day-to-day operations to focus on new opportunities.

Kathleen emphasizes the importance of creating leaders within the team. By giving team members a sense of ownership, communication between owners and entrepreneurs improves, enabling them to focus on growth and innovation.

About Our Guest: Kathy Mayfield

Kathy Mayfield, with over 25 years of leadership experience, is a seasoned chief operating officer and second-in-command. Passionate about helping others achieve their best, she empowers teams to surpass expectations in productivity, revenue, and employee satisfaction. Currently, she serves as the president of Winter International LLC, operating as Bloom Growth, where she harmonizes departmental synergy, removes obstacles, and fosters a culture of accountability through servant leadership.

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Unlimited PTO Policy: Does it Work for Virtual Assistants?

Posted on April 27, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

How To Manage Your Remote Worker PTO And Holidays

Does an unlimited PTO policy work for virtual assistants? With more and more businesses offering remote worker options, it’s becoming increasingly common for employees to work from home or anywhere remotely.

While there are many benefits to this arrangement, there are also some new challenges with managing a remote team—one of the biggest challenges is managing your remote worker’s PTO and holidays.

In this blog post, I’ll give you some tips on managing your remote worker’s PTO and holiday in a way that is fair to your employees and compliant with the law.

How to manage your remote worker PTO and Holidays

What is Paid Time Off (PTO) For a Remote Worker?

PTO allows employees to take time off from work without loss of pay.

There are two types of PTO: accrued PTO and unlimited PTO.

Accrued PTO

With an accrued PTO policy, employees gradually accrue paid time off based on the number of hours they work. For example, if an employer offers 2 weeks (10 days) of vacation per year, an employee who works 40 hours per week will accrue 5 days of vacation per year (2 weeks / 40 hours = 0.05). This type of policy is common in the United States.

Unlimited PTO Policy

Unlimited PTO policies are less common in the United States, but they are becoming more popular as companies seek to attract and retain top talent. With an unlimited PTO policy, employees do not accrue vacation days; instead, they can take time off as needed, subject to approval from their supervisor. This type of policy is more common in Europe and other parts of the world.

Time Off Requests For a Remote Worker

If you have a remote team, you’ll need to have a process in place for employees to request time off.

The process should be simple and straightforward, and it should be clearly communicated to all employees.

One way to do this is to use an online tool like Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar. These tools allow employees to submit time off requests online, and they also allow you to keep track of who is out of the office and when.

Another option is to use a paper-based system. This can be as simple as creating a form that employees can fill out and submit to their supervisor for approval.

Parental Leave as Part of a Remote Worker’s Benefits Package

Parental leave is another important consideration when managing your remote team’s PTO and holidays.

In the US, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) grants up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for parental leave (maternity, paternity, or adoption), caring for a sick family member, or dealing with one’s own serious health condition.

Parents working in Europe are entitled to paid parental leave ranging from 4-8 weeks, depending on the country. Ensure you are aware of and compliant with the parental leave laws of your employees’ countries if they work remotely.

How Employees Accrue Time Off with a Remote Team

As I mentioned earlier, there are two types of paid time off: accrued PTO and unlimited PTO policy. With an accrued PTO policy, employees gradually accrue paid time off based on their work hours. With an unlimited PTO policy, employees do not accrue vacation days but can take time off as needed, subject to approval from their supervisor.

If you have a remote team, you may want to consider implementing an unlimited PTO policy. This type of policy gives employees more flexibility, which can be especially beneficial if your team members are in different time zones. It can also help reduce distractions caused by frequent requests for time off.

Before implementing an unlimited PTO policy, consult an HR expert or attorney to understand all the legal implications.

Ways To Help Remote Professionals Achieve A Healthy Work-Life Balance

Encouraging your remote team members to achieve a healthy work-life balance is important. There are several ways you can do this:

Set clear expectations about working hours. Avoid scheduling conference calls or meetings outside of regular working hours if possible.
Encourage breaks! Just because someone works remotely doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take regular daily intervals. Encourage your team members to step away from their desks for a few minutes throughout the day to recharge and refocus.
Hold virtual lunch dates with co-workers. This allows remote workers to build relationships with other team members, even if they are not in the exact physical location.
Prioritize communication and collaboration tools. Investing in quality tools can help make it easier for remote teams to collaborate and stay connected, even when they are miles apart.
Allow employees to work flexible hours. This allows employees to manage their own schedules to fit in time off as needed without disrupting their productivity.

Unlimited PTO Policy: Legal Compliance and Training for Remote Workers

It’s essential to be aware of the legal requirements of managing a remote team, especially concerning PTO and holiday policies. You should consult with a lawyer or HR expert and ensure you understand applicable laws in your jurisdiction before implementing any policies or procedures related to managing remote workers’ time off.

You should also provide training and education about these policies so that all team members know how things work and what is expected of them. This will ensure that everyone is on the same page regarding taking time off.

Remote Worker Unlimited PTO Policy & Holidays

Managing a remote workforce requires some unique considerations due to its distributed nature; one is how best to handle paid time off (PTO) and holidays for your team members.

By understanding the different types of PTO policies available, putting processes in place for requesting time off, providing training on parental leave policies, investing in communication tools, allowing flexible working hours, and understanding applicable legal requirements, you can create an environment where your remote workers can take time off while still meeting expectations.

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The First 30 Days of Your Virtual Assistant: What to Expect

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

Virtual Assistants: What To Expect In Your First 30 Days

The first 30 days of your Virtual assistant are crucial. Now that you have chosen your virtual assistant, who we often refer to as a remote professional, and completed Anequim’s onboarding training, you are ready to go! In this article, we will go over step by step how to ensure your virtual assistant is successful in their first 30 days.

Virtual Assistant from Anequim talking on her customer service headset.

Introduce Your Virtual Assistant to Your Company Culture

Your virtual assistant should be able to perform at a high level like any domestic employee in your office. This means don’t skimp on your history, mission, values, culture or anything important about your company. This might be even more important because they need to have a feeling for the company by the way you talk about it since they are remote working.

This is really important because after they are trained you want them to be able to make good decisions while thinking on their feet. When employees truly understand the culture of the business they are working for and have an idea for what is acceptable and what is not.

Introduce Virtual Assistants To Your Team

It’s important to introduce your virtual assistant to your team and help them get to know everyone. One way to do this is to take your computer around the office while on webcam or have all employees get on a virtual meeting. This way, the virtual assistant can see faces and names, and get a sense of who everyone is.

The goal of this introduction is to make the virtual assistant feel as comfortable and productive as possible as soon as possible. By having a little bit of camaraderie built up with everyone, the virtual assistant will feel more comfortable asking for help and getting started on their work.

The 30 minutes spent on this can make a big difference in the virtual assistant’s ability to be productive and get up to speed quickly.

Remote Professional team having a meeting on a zoom call.

Go Over All the Software You Use and What It Is Used For

This sounds super basic but I swear giving a general lay of the technology landscape of your company helps new employees acclimate sooner.

Many people forget to show new employees all the software and tools that the company uses. This can be a big mistake because different companies may use the same software in different ways. This step is crucial to ensure that the virtual assistant can understand how everything works and be productive as soon as possible.

Create a Training Calendar and Set Realistic Expectations

After you’ve defined key items like the number of hours expected, working hours, list of tasks, types of tasks, and detailed instructions many business owners or managers immediately want new employees to spend all their time learning software or project management tools step by step before getting into the actual work.

We have found that integrating the software training with the hands on training is actually better for a few reasons.

Virtual Assistant from Anequim setting up a Training Calendar

Time Constraints For Training a Virtual Assistant

First, you are not going to have time to drop everything and train someone all day for two weeks. The software tutorials give the person time to work independently while the people training them get their work done.

Incorporate Your Entire Team In The Training

Secondly, you can design each day where the new member is learning from different people and has time to just do software training. Ideally, no one person is responsible for all the training.

Is there an easy task that they could start doing an hour a day starting tomorrow? Making the virtual assistant feel productive as quickly as possible makes them proficient in the easiest tasks first and then level up to the harder tasks.

Have proficiency benchmarks identified in your calendar. This way the calendar invite creates the conversation about how fast they are learning and becoming productive. Everyone knows if they are measuring up or not based on set expectations. If the virtual assistant is falling short they are fully aware that they need to step it up.

Make Sure Your Virtual Assistant Knows What Winning Looks Like

As your team member gets better at their job, they will want to know what kind of productivity you expect with their task management.

You should be able to define these key questions:

What are the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for success?
What reports do they need to pull from to see what their productivity is?
What is acceptable productivity?
What is unacceptable productivity?
How is quality of the work checked?

Give Constructive Feedback

Giving feedback is important for making sure that virtual assistants are doing their best work. Managers who don’t like giving feedback may need to make a special effort to give it, because it’s not as easy as giving feedback to someone who works in the same office as you.

I recommend writing the nuanced feedback in a Google document then having scheduled meetings where you give feedback so none of the feedback is forgotten.

If someone is just starting to do a task you demonstrated on their own. Work with them on webcam for a little bit so they can ask you questions live just like they would if they were in your office.

Get to Know Your Virtual Assistant

We want our virtual assistants to be just as good as any of our in-office employees. To make that happen, we need to genuinely treat them as they are part of our team.

This includes getting to know them, showing that we care about them, and making sure they feel like they are valued members of the team. When they feel like they are part of the team, they will be more likely to go above and beyond to help out when things get tough.

Virtual Assistant from Anequim contacting on a scheduled meeting

Conduct Regularly Scheduled Meetings

Meet with your new hire regularly and go over the job description you have for them. Go over the tasks they were supposed to master and cross off the ones they have down and what they still have yet to learn to have the job down. Tell them your evaluation of the performance so far. Speak directly, but give them encouragement.

As you know, feedback is a great way to improve your task management and delegate work to a skilled professional.

However, it’s important to set clear expectations and provide detailed instructions and training in the first 30 days to ensure a smooth transition. Introduce your virtual assistant to your team, explain the software and tools used, and set expectations for task proficiency.

Follow These Steps To Success!

By following these steps and providing regular feedback, you can build a strong work relationship with your virtual assistant and maximize their productivity for your business.

Write feedback in a Google doc and schedule meetings to ensure it is not forgotten. Managers who dislike giving feedback must try harder, as it is harder than providing feedback to colleagues in the same office.

Make your internal meetings effective and concise these first 30 days using our FREE one-on-one reusable meeting form to save you much time and effort.

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Virtual Executive Assistant: What Do They Do?

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

A Virtual Executive Assistant Can Change Your Life!

A virtual executive assistant or virtual administrative assistant can be a game-changer for any business person, but it is essential to design the role for success. If not done correctly, these virtual assistant positions can add more stress to already strained professionals.

Executives often become overwhelmed when taking on operational tasks such as accounting or customer service. To reduce their stress levels, it’s best to create a role that efficiently focuses on these tasks. This can help the executive to feel more in control and make work easier to manage, and virtual assistants are the way to do it.

What does a virtual executive assistant do?

Hiring A Virtual Executive Assistant

When hiring a virtual assistant, it’s important to think beyond the immediate crisis and design a role that will be successful in the long term. Otherwise, the business professional may find themselves caught up on tasks after a matter of weeks and then struggling with what else to give their virtual administrative assistant.

A virtual executive assistant should help alleviate stress, not add to it – especially while the executive is trying to relax while on vacation. Designing the right role can avoid these issues and make life easier, happier, and less stressful.

A Virtual Executive Assistant Role That Works For the Busy Executive

Making this role work really is in the initial design. As consultants, we often find that overwhelmed executives are taking on operational tasks they shouldn’t be doing, such as accounting or customer service. Designing a role that focuses on these operational tasks in an effective way can help relieve the executive’s stress levels significantly.

What Tasks Can A Virtual Executive Assistant Do For Your Business?

A virtual executive assistant or remote professional can provide invaluable assistance when it comes to operational tasks that need to be completed directly by the executive. These tasks are of a sensitive nature and can range from overseeing customer service efforts to managing vendor relations. By delegating these responsibilities, executives can ensure that their job is completed efficiently and with minimal stress.

Virtual Executive Assistant Can Do Quality Control

When problems arise, a virtual assistant or remote professional can be invaluable. They can research the issue to determine the cause, no matter if it’s due to processes and procedures or a lack of training. After figuring out the root cause, they then help solve the issue – whether that means rewriting unclear procedures or reviewing task documents with those executing them.

If any flaws are noticed in the entire process or workflow, leadership teams must be consulted to determine the next steps. Quality control is an ideal role for a virtual assistant or remote professional when not occupied with executive assistant duties.

Audit Your Sales Team

Having a remote professional on board to support sales teams can help make sure sales people are following guidelines and following up with prospects.. They can ensure processes and protocols are followed, as well as take notes that help operations stay informed of the business coming in. This helps create a better relationship between sales and operations, reducing potential conflicts and crises that may arise from miscommunication.

A remote professional can make sure the sales pipeline is properly audited and all necessary rules for follow-up are enforced. Utilizing reporting tools will provide visibility to both operations and sales teams, resulting in better harmony between them and avoiding blindsiding operations with unexpected business.

Audit Your Processes and Procedures

As businesses grow, virtual assistants and remote professionals can be a huge help in keeping operations organized, up-to-date, and running smoothly. The audit and management necessary for these tasks make them ideal for an executive assistant’s workload – especially when personal tasks are scarce or their workload is light.

By engaging virtual assistants and remote professionals, leaders can trust that the operations will remain clean, documented, and consistently compliant with all software changes.

Do A Full Financial Audit

Leaders who want to increase their profits this year might find it hard to find the time to research and answer important questions. Here is an example, “Are salespeople taking an extra day in Nashville and charging the company?” or “Is the SEO vendor really doing what they say they are doing?”. Taking a closer look at these issues can help to identify potential cost savings.

A virtual executive assistant can be used as your eyes and ears in the company to ask questions, get answers, and provide valuable insights. They can help you assess whether activities such as marketing campaigns, sales commissions, and HR departments are actually making a difference in your bottom line.

Virtual Executive Assistants Can Do Research

Staying ahead of your competition can be difficult without the assistance of a remote professional. They can help you investigate new technologies, research CTOs from “XYZ Company” on LinkedIn, and review feedback for coaching programs online.

As busy executives, we often lack the time to do the necessary research and background digging that can lead to better decisions. That’s where remote professionals and executive assistants come in. Your remote professional can research potential software, coaches, team members, private equity companies, and clients – giving you all the data you need to make an informed decision. With their assistance, you can be confident that you are making the right choices for your organization.

Project Management for Virtual Executive Assistant

Having a remote professional or executive assistant can take your organization’s progress to the next level. Track project development, spot obstructions, and organize meetings to quickly address problems. Virtual Assistants can monitor and oversee vital projects to ensure they are completed on schedule and within budget. This facilitates efficient operations and maximizes outcomes.

High-Level Reporting

As entrepreneurs and business owners, we often have to generate reports for investors, silent partners, and other stakeholders. Rather than spending the effort to gather the data by yourself, let your virtual assistant do the job of obtaining the pertinent data and creating a thorough report.

Initially, collaborating with your virtual executive assistant can help determine necessary information, procedures for locating it, and formatting it in an engaging way that resonates with the target audience. Once these specifications are outlined, your executive assistant can then produce detailed reports on a regular basis according to your instructions.

Manage Your Engagements, Events, Podcasts, And More!

Utilizing a remote professional as your executive assistant can be one of the best investments for your business and personal brand. Have them apply for awards that recognize your accomplishments and progress.

They can also reach out to podcasts and request you as a guest, increasing your online visibility and the potential for new clients. Furthermore, they can propose speaking engagements at events and conferences, allowing you to showcase your expertise in a more engaging format.

What tasks can an executive assistant perform for your personal life?

A virtual executive assistant can manage a variety of tasks in your personal life, including organizing appointments, making travel arrangements, managing expenses and more. Virtual executive assistants make sure you never miss a special occasion for your family or clients.

Virtual Assistants can take the hassle out of shopping by sending gifts on your behalf. Furthermore, they can help you create processes for gifting to ensure that your clients always feel appreciated on holidays, anniversaries, and other important days.

11 Personal Tasks Your Remote Professional Can Help You With:

Kids’ sports calendars and school calendars
Make sure all their important events get on your calendar so you never miss another holiday show
Book vacations and travel
Pay your kids’ school fees for lunch and sports uniforms
Buy your kid’s school supplies and books online for you
Book your travel and hotel and make sure you get all the points
Book orthodontist appointments, cosmetic appointments, and doctors appointments for the whole family
Book home maintenance appointments or schedule your oil change
Book your kids’ teacher conferences
Book all the family’s after-school activities and fill out all the forms
Book your kids for summer camps and fill out all the forms

My executive assistant Jorge is essential to my success as a working mom. He handles all of the form-related tasks, ensuring I never miss high school admittance test deadlines or my kids’ sports and music competitions. My virtual executive assistant helps keep our family organized, on time, and at the right places for their activities and I don’t know what I’d do without him!

Get The Most Out Of Your Virtual Executive Assistant

As an overworked professional, hiring a virtual executive assistant can be a real lifesaver. It’s important to take the time to carefully consider what their role should entail. Think about how you can structure the role in a way that streamlines your operations, while also freeing up your time and reducing your stress levels. With the right system in place, a virtual assistant can make all the difference!

ICYMI: The Future is With Virtual Assistants

At Anequim, we’ve seen first-hand how the rise of virtual assistants, remote professionals, and executive assistants has been a game changer for modern businesses. With the introduction of virtual assistant technology and remote executive assistant services, companies are now better equipped to manage their operations with ease. Let Anequim help you scale your business faster than you ever thought possible!

Reduce Your Staffing Costs

Virtual assistants can be employed at a fraction of the cost of traditional employees while providing the same level of expertise and efficiency. Remote assistants offer the same benefits as regular office-based employees but come without the need for physical space or extra personnel.

More Productivity and Flexibility

Companies benefit from having more flexibility in terms of scheduling remote professionals to fit their needs. Virtual executive assistants provide experienced support at all stages from onboarding clients through ongoing customer services tasks such as appointment setting and data entry.

The Demand is Increasing For Good Reasons

As businesses recognize the value virtual assistants bring, there is an increasing demand for these services, making them an essential part of any modern enterprise. For those looking for additional help with their business, hiring a remote professional is how you do it, without having to invest in physical infrastructure or additional staff costs.

Keeping track of your goals is essential to monitor the progress of your virtual executive assistant and business. Save some time and use our FREE milestone assessment format to keep your objectives going.

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Remote Virtual Assistant Jobs: Are They Good For Your Business?

Posted on March 16, 2023December 16, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

Is a Remote Professional a Good Fit For Your Business? 5 Questions

Have you ever hired someone who aced the interview but struggled in the position? Does hiring the right person feel like a gamble?

We know that these headaches can be avoided with the correct interview philosophy. Instead of settling for “good enough,” we need to ask the questions that reveal who candidates genuinely are and what they bring to the table.

Virtual assistant having a business meeting

The Key to Better Hiring: Ask Smarter Questions

Most interviews focus on what candidates say they can do. A better approach is to explore what they’ve done and how they think. Here’s how to dig deeper.

If you find yourself bogged down by repetitive or administrative tasks, a remote professional might help free up your schedule for bigger-picture business activities. However, you may set up a new hire to fail if your workload is too unpredictable or specialized.

Ask yourself:
Which tasks consistently distract me from high-priority responsibilities?
Could someone else handle these tasks efficiently with minimal training?

What Are Your Goals for the Next 3–5 Years?

Hiring a virtual assistant isn’t just about solving immediate problems—it’s about setting up your business for long-term success. If your goals include scaling your operations, boosting ROI, or building a globally aligned team, a virtual assistant might help you get there.

Ask yourself:
Do I want to delegate tasks to focus on strategy and growth?
Am I looking to create a more agile and cost-efficient team?
Will working with a remote professional align with my company’s values and vision?

If your 3–5 year goals point toward growth and operational efficiency, a virtual assistant could be an integral part of achieving them.

1. Behavioral Questions

These reveal how candidates act under pressure, showing their problem-solving and adaptability.

Example: “Tell me about a time you had to step up when others dropped the ball.”

2: Situational Questions

Situational questions help assess critical thinking and decision-making in real-world scenarios.

Example: “How would you handle a project if resources were suddenly cut?”

3: Demonstrative Exercises

Seeing candidates in action shows how they’d perform in the job’s daily challenges.

Example: “Let’s role-play a call with an upset client.”

4: Finding Cultural and Ethical Fit

Skills matter, but so do values. Cultural and ethical alignment ensures long-term success. Ask questions like:

“Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma. What did you do?”

This helps gauge their integrity and decision-making in challenging situations.

“How would you respond if a senior manager broke company policy?”

This reveals whether they’re willing to stand up for company values, even when it’s hard.

5: Understanding Work Habits and Problem-Solving

Work habits can make or break productivity. To assess these, ask:

“If you inherited a messy, outdated system, how would you fix it?”

This question shows their organizational skills and ability to prioritize.

“A client hasn’t heard back from the team and is upset. What do you do first?”

Their response gives insight into how they handle high-pressure, client-facing situations.

Hiring Process Matters

Consistency is key. Asking all candidates the same well-crafted questions not only deepens insights but also ensures fairness. A structured approach leads to better comparisons and removes bias from the process.

Can You Build The Right Remote Team? YES!

Hiring a virtual assistant is no harder than managing any other employee – it just requires a few tweaks, best practices, and the right technology tools! Seeing the value they can bring to your business with those tools, and keeping expectations high – that’s all it takes to make this year awesome(ish). Don’t forget about your virtual assistants because remote professionals need love too.

Having Trouble Hiring The Right People?

Superficial interviews lead to costly mistakes. By adopting a thoughtful, strategic interview framework, your company can save time, hire better fits, and build teams that truly move the needle. It’s time to stop settling and start finding the talent that will drive your business forward.

At Anequim, we have an experienced team dedicated to match-making growing companies with their ideal employees. Don’t have the time to interview and onboard new employees? Let us do the job for you and grow your global team.

Hire a Virtual Assistant Today: Why You Need One

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

Why You Need To Hire a Virtual Assistant Today

Do you need to hire a virtual assistant? Hiring a virtual assistant, who we often refer to as remote professionals, for customer service and support can greatly benefit your business. When you hire support staff at U.S. prices, you may not be able to afford enough people to provide the level of support you expect.

This can result in long wait times and callbacks, as well as being unable to provide the small, personal touches that set you apart from your competition. But by hiring virtual assistants, you can keep your budget the same and have more staff to support your clients, without sacrificing quality.

This will provide the level of customer support you have always wanted for your business, making your customers loyal fans who will advertise your business and help it grow.

The real question is why have you not hired virtual assistants to support your customers already? Outlined below are the questions I most often receive about the benefits of hiring virtual assistants/remote professionals versus hiring full time employees.

Virtual assistant taking notes from meeting

Should I Hire a Virtual Assistant For Customer Service?

Trained virtual assistants can do anything for customers that a domestic employee can do for them from behind a computer. There was a time where people thought virtual assistants could only do easy administrative tasks or rudimentary tasks for businesses. Those days are gone.

Virtual assistants have varied skill sets and can do most anything a domestic employee can do without sacrificing quality. However you measure your domestic employees is how you would measure your virtual assistants.

Nothing is different except that instead of scheduled meetings in your office for feedback, you are meeting over a web conference.

Why Should You Hire a Virtual Assistant For a Startup?

Hiring a virtual assistant for your start-up can be a great first move because you can find high-quality talent at a lower cost in countries like Mexico.

Using technology to work remotely is easy and efficient, so there’s no reason not to consider hiring a virtual assistant as an assistant for your business for tasks such as creating time consuming process and procedure documents, drumming up business, or helping with marketing.

Why do Businesses Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Businesses use virtual assistants because they can get high-quality work at an affordable price from workers in remote locations with lower costs of living. Managing remote teams across international borders does require discipline and attention to quality control.

For example, if you are working in an office space and you hear your employee talking on the phone and you don’t like their tone, you would go over to them and give feedback. With remote teams, you would have to use feedback forms and listen to at least one call a day to make sure you like the quality of the call and give feedback. You would also have to have a playbook or procedure for how you want people to talk on the phone.

Using remote labor can help you implement best practices in management and business, which can make your business better sooner and give you the time to focus on your other business operations.

Virtual assistant working with a remote team of professionals

What Would You Use a Virtual Assistant For on a Daily Basis?

Virtual assistants can do whatever you would create a job description for a domestic employee to do that can be done in front of a computer.

There should be no difference in the activities, the expectation or the outcome, at least that is our expectation at Anequim where we hire high quality virtual assistants who work your hours, regardless of their time zone.

Are Virtual Assistants Good for Business?

Virtual assistants are a net positive for any business. Historically people thought that people in other countries could only do easy tasks but over time virtual assistants have proven the power of their skills, work ethic and ability to communicate effectively across borders.

With virtual assistants you may be able to make those stair steps to success, and making a profit less steep because good wages in emerging markets are less than in the United States. Everyone wins.

You as the entrepreneur get the help you need to grow and scale your business and the virtual assistant wins because they are gaining business knowledge and getting a good wage to support themselves and their family.

What Are The Businesses That Hire a Virtual Assistants?

Virtual assistants are commonly used by businesses of all sizes, but their use became more widespread among small and medium-sized businesses after the publication of Tim Ferriss’s “The 4 Hour Work Week” in 2007.

The technology for video conferencing also improved, making it easier for businesses to communicate with remote workers and making it seem like they were in the same office.

The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the use of virtual assistants, as many businesses were forced to adopt remote work, and it is now seen as a viable option for businesses of all sizes.

Managing remote workers is not difficult, and many businesses now realize the benefits of using virtual assistants.

How to Hire a Virtual Assistant to Help Grow My Business?

Personally, the only way our property management company that we started in 2006 could have grown as fast as it did or sold for as much as it did in 2021 was not in spite of, but because of our investment in virtual assistants/remote professionals from Mexico.

The quality of the work and our ability to grow and scale without taking on debt and get the productivity we needed to become the business we wanted to become was only possible because of virtual assistance and their hard work, dedication and the ingenuity they brought to the business.

Virtual assistance enabled us to produce quality work, expand without borrowing, and achieve the productivity we needed to reach our goals. Their dedication and creativity were essential to our success.

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How to Delegate Responsibilities to Your Virtual Assistants

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

Virtual Assistants: How to Delegate Responsibilities

How to delegate responsibilities to your VAs? As business owners, we all want the best for our businesses, but delegating responsibilities to our team of virtual assistants is one of the hardest things to do. This is our company and doing everything ourselves can feel like how we protect it from slipping through our fingers.

But to grow and scale, it’s important to understand that delegation is a vital factor. Delegating tasks to virtual assistants, which we often refer to as remote professionals, can enable us to finish more quickly. This frees up valuable time that you could be spending focusing on the big-picture elements of your business – ultimately helping push it to the next level.

In this blog post, I will outline how you can change your mindset to move your business forward and scale.

Virtual Assistant working on delegated responsibilities

First: Change your mindset with virtual assistants

Delegating tasks to employees can be daunting due to the fear that mistakes may be made, but it’s important to remember this is a small price to pay for all the extra time you get from not doing everything yourself.

Mistakes aren’t the end of the world – instead, they can provide valuable lessons through retraining and coaching, plus a review of all necessary documentation.

The cost of potential mistakes pales in comparison to what you can achieve with the amount of time freed up from delegating: you can create an entirely new line of products or services, market your business more effectively and increase your customer base.

What and How to Delegate Responsibilities

Look at your daily tasks. Think of how much you would pay someone to do the tasks that you do. Likely you will have some tasks that you consider entry-level.

This can include things like administrative tasks, project management, calendar management, bookkeeping work, creating reports, social media management, responding to comments, administrative work, writing personal emails, etc.

Note the type of tasks or which tasks take a lot of time. Once you hire a virtual assistant start delegating these time-consuming tasks.

Remote assistant getting delegated responsibilities from remote team

How to Delegate Responsibilities: Know which tasks drain your energy

If you’re considering what to delegate to a virtual assistant, it’s important to start by looking inward and identifying the tasks that regularly drain your energy or that you find particularly challenging.

These are likely the first tasks you should consider delegating, as they can quickly become time-consuming and that can often lead to feeling overwhelmed.

Once you have a list of these tasks, it’s then the time to start writing up playbooks and procedures – either with the help of a virtual assistant or before they start – so they know exactly how each task needs to be completed.

What new tasks should you be doing but you are not doing?

Think of the tasks that would really move your business forward. Some of these will be very high-dollar work that only you can do and some of it is just executing more client add-ons that a remote professional could take on, for example, more customer check-ins, or customer support.

Add the items that you have to do to your new job description as now that you won’t be doing the tasks you are delegating you will have time to move your business forward with tasks that are the best use of your time, and the other items are added to your virtual assistant’s job description.

What tasks would shore up your weaknesses?

It’s important to consider any tasks that can help you shore up any professional weaknesses that you may have, such as disorganization, email management and invoicing on time.

To make addressing these issues easier and more efficient, create specific tasks and add them to your virtual assistant’s job description. This ensures that your virtual assistant is able to take responsibility for these areas of your business and free up your own time.

Getting high-quality results with virtual assistants

Now you want to think about how you will manage success with these tasks. What does winning look like for all of these tasks?

How will you measure success with these tasks and can you make these tasks into a cadence for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly so nothing gets forgotten and when your virtual assistant sits at their desk in the morning they know exactly what they need to do right away without effort from you?

Finding the right person

Think about the skillset, mindset, and experience someone needs to be really good at these tasks. Also, think of someone you would want to work closely with – what kind of qualities do they need to have?

You want this to be a person you enjoy working with because life is short you might as well love your job. Think about what questions you would need to ask in an interview to get a good culture fit.

If you take some time to go through this exercise and really think strategically about what you are looking for a virtual assistant to do, how you will measure success and what the expectations will be you have a much higher likelihood of the role working out and the role being successful.

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Virtual Assistants Hours: How Do They Work?

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

What Hours Do Virtual Assistants Work?

Virtual assistants’ hours and pay can be complicated. One of the questions we are most asked is, “What hours should my virtual assistant work?”

We have found virtual work to be most productive when all people on the team are working the same hours.

pur remote professionals in Mexico are in the same time zone as me, so everyone is happy working during the same hours. Even when there are slight time differences, such as working in Eastern or Mountain Time while living in Central Time, it’s not a big issue and can sometimes be preferred.

Asynchronously Virtual Assistants Hours

Our recent guest on the Bootstrappers Podcast Liam Martin, a remote work advocate, supports the idea of asynchronous work. This means that workers can choose to work at any hour and from any time zone, with as few meetings as possible.

Martin believes in using technology to its fullest potential, like making videos for colleagues instead of having video calls and making sure written communication and documentation is thorough, reducing the need for meetings or calls.

Martin is the author of Running Remote and the founder of Time Doctor, a time management software as a service (SaaS).

Synchronously Virtual Assistants Hours?

As a business owner, I run my remote teams with a strong focus on teamwork. We have daily huddles where small teams connect live in the morning and work during the same hours. Video calls are frequently used to answer questions and Zoom meetings typically work for our needs.

Despite never meeting in person, I feel like I have known my team extremely well due to our online interactions.

This type of work is only possible when everyone is working during the same hours.

Should I Just Hire a Part-time Virtual Assistant?

When hiring a virtual assistant, I avoid part-time workers because it leads to unhappy clients. I’ve tried it in the past and it caused problems for everyone involved. The virtual assistants typically were unhappy because they lacked communication, training and felt like they were wasting their time.

The clients were unhappy due to low work quality and high turnover. This was not because the assistants were not talented, but because when someone is juggling multiple jobs, they don’t see the work as a career and therefore don’t put in extra effort or propose new ideas.

The lack of loyalty and focus on a paycheck instead of a career also meant that clients had to constantly train new employees, leading to more unhappiness.

Full-time Virtual Assistants Who Work Your hours is the best option

After trying the part-time virtual assistant program and finding it unsatisfactory, we decided to only hire full-time remote professionals for our clients.

We helped them design job descriptions that went beyond their expectations and included administrative tasks that would help their business grow or things they wanted to do but never had time for. This was a success for everyone involved.

It provided stable jobs for people in emerging markets like Mexico, allowed for skill development and learning new things, and created a more loyal workforce for our clients, solving their labor issues with minimal headaches.

For the Happiest VA Give Them Their Holidays off

One way to increase employee loyalty is to give them their country’s holidays off.

Recognizing different holidays within the company can be a productivity hack. For instance, the 4th of July is a great example. During busy work days, there are tasks like database cleanups that are often overlooked. However, if you have a motivated workforce willing to work during holidays, they can tackle these projects that never get done on regular days.

For example, if your contractors’ insurance and workman’s comp information isn’t updated in your system, have your remote professional review it on the 4th of July. If there were past customers who were not offboarded correctly and now your data is not clean, consider using Labor Day to clean it up.

By utilizing holidays with a motivated workforce, you can complete important projects and have your business running smoothly.

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The Recipe for the Most Successful Virtual Remote Teams

To have a motivated and productive remote team, keep their working hours consistent and have regular virtual meetings like in an office. Hire in a location where the working hours are suitable, and ensure they are full-time employees to avoid distractions.

Include tasks that will move your business forward in the job description, not just the required ones. Utilize the different holidays in various countries to your advantage by using them for tasks like database clean-up that can’t be done during regular work hours. This can be a powerful tool for your business.

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Onboarding Remote Employees and VAs Successfully

Posted on March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

Onboarding Remote Employees the Right Way

Onboarding remote employees can be a unique challenge, but with the right approach, it can be a smooth and efficient process.

I asked Andrea Kelley, client manager of Anequim’s Rent Manager Call Center, to share her remote team onboarding process.

Andrea boils it down to three absolute must-dos: set expectations, discuss your communication methods and styles, and establish goal-based training.

Table displaying Onboarding, getting ready for onboard remote employee

Onboarding Remote Employees: Set Expectations

Setting clear expectations in a virtual onboarding program is important for remote workers to understand company policies, procedures, role, and responsibilities.

Give new employees the resources they need to get started in their role, such as start dates and an employee handbook. Doing so will help them hit the ground running, setting a professional and productive tone from the start.

Make sure to be clear and upfront with expectations from the start:

Explain company purpose: Let the new hire know what the company does and what its goals are.
Define job responsibilities: Tell the new hire what they will be doing and what is expected of them.
Review work schedule: Let the new hire know when they will be working and how much time off they can take.
Evaluate job performance: Explain how the new hire will be evaluated and what they need to do to be successful.
Talk about growth opportunities: Let the new hire know about chances for advancement within the company.
Encourage questions: Give the new hire a chance to ask questions and clarify anything they’re unsure about.

By setting clear expectations, you can help foster a positive and inclusive work environment where everyone is clear on their role and responsibilities. Where long term growth and development are encouraged.

This in turn can lead to a more motivated, engaged and productive remote workforce.

Remote Employee working on set expectations

Discuss Your Communication Methods and Styles

When onboarding new hires remotely, it’s important to communicate your preferred methods of communication. Whether it be through email, phone calls, video calls or text messages. Include when it is best to use each method.

Make sure to lay out the expectations of when and how employees will be expected to check-in. This can include set times such as before or after shifts, once a day, or only in cases of problems. Doing so ensures everyone is on the same page and knows what is expected of them.

Emphasize the importance of maintaining a professional tone and demeanor, regardless of the communication platform being used.

Share your personal communication style with your new hires, so they have a better understanding of your approach. For example, you might be maternal, funny, or straightforward in your communication.

Finally, it’s crucial to treat your new hires with respect and dignity, recognizing them as both individuals and colleagues. This sets a positive tone for the work environment and helps foster a productive and harmonious work environment and builds relationships.

Remote employee taking notes on communication method and styles while being onboarded

Onboarding Remote Employees: Goal-Based Training

A goal-based training program is essential for the success of new hires in any organization. It starts with a clear understanding of the company’s structure and goals.

Providing an overview of the company’s structure and using an organizational chart to illustrate the roles and responsibilities of each team member can help the new hire understand the bigger picture and their place in it. Communication of the company’s overall direction and how the new hire’s performance will impact the company’s trajectory is also important. This helps the new hire understand their role and the impact they can make on the organization.

The goal-based training program should be designed to help the new hire achieve their objectives and become a productive member of the team. It should be based on real-life scenarios and problem-solving exercises that encourage the new hire to take ownership of their responsibilities.

For example, sharing specific examples of both successful and unsuccessful experiences can help new hires learn from real-life scenarios. When discussing a problem, it is important to avoid emotional language and instead provide a clear and factual description of the situation. Encouraging the new hire to come up with solutions and offering support when needed will help them integrate into the company culture more smoothly.

The goal-based training approach will set the new hires up for success and help them integrate into the company culture more smoothly. By establishing clear goals and expectations, the new hire will have a clear understanding of what they need to do to be successful in their role. This type of training helps to reduce frustration and confusion, and it encourages the new hire to take an active role in their own development.

By adopting a goal-based approach, companies can increase the chances of success for their new hires and help them become valuable contributors to the team.

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Gwenn’s Short Take

Starting a new job can be a confusing and unsettling experience, especially on the first day. It’s essential for employers to create a positive and supportive atmosphere for new hires from the moment they start. This helps employees feel valued and confident in their decision to join the company.

Provide new hires with access to the necessary tools and resources they need to get started in their role. Doing so will help them hit the ground running, setting a professional and productive tone from the start. This includes setting up their email addresses and making sure they are operational on the first day.

By taking the time to set high expectations and lead by example, you demonstrate your commitment to creating a positive and productive work environment. This sets the tone for a successful onboarding experience and helps new hires feel confident and empowered in their new role.

By taking these steps, you can help ensure that new hires feel comfortable and supported as they begin their journey with your company.

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Entrepreneurial Operating System: Why you need EOS

Posted on January 3, 2023April 15, 2024 by Gwenn Aspen

How EOS Can Transform Your Business

Accountability is possible with an entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) that Anequim has implemented, like many other successful businesses today.

As business leaders, we have all been through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, which means we know firsthand how challenging it can be to grow and maintain success in a competitive market.

That’s why implementing an approach like the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) is helping so many businesses thrive.

EOS The Entrepreneurial Operating System

The Entrepreneurial Operating System: A Game Changer

Created by Gino Wickman, the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) is a set of simple concepts and practical tools that have transformed the way thousands of businesses operate.

For you, as a business owner, the benefits of implementing EOS are impressive and impactful from the start. EOS will help you and your team clarify your vision, instill focus and discipline, and create a healthy leadership team.

EOS is designed specifically for busy entrepreneurs like you. It addresses the six key components of any business:

Vision
People
Data
Issues
Process
Traction

By strengthening these components, EOS helps solve issues at their root cause and gain traction toward your business goals.

Vision: Uniting Your Team Under a Common Goal

One of the most powerful aspects of EOS is its ability to help everyone in your organization get 100% on the same page about where you’re going and how you plan to get there.

For many business owners, it often feels like their team was constantly pulling in different directions, struggling to align your efforts toward the same end goal. EOS will help you clarify your vision and unite as a cohesive unit, all working towards the same goal.

In Gino Wickman’s book, Traction, he describes this process as “letting go of the vine.” Imagine yourself hanging from a cliff and clinging to survival by literally clinging to the root of a vine protruding from the dirt wall.

It appears as though you will fall to your demise if you let go of the vine, but the same is true for any chance at making it to the top of the mountain if you don’t let go. Progress can’t be found when you’re simplifying ‘treading water’ to keep yourself from drowning.

As with being stuck in any old routine, letting go is actually the only way to progress forward. We must first let go of the ‘old ways’ that we are clinging to in order for us to embrace new ideas.

People: Building a High-Performing Team

EOS emphasizes the importance of having great people in your organization, from top to bottom.

This is an example of what happens far too often with many businesses: The best salesperson on your team is great at their role, so you promote them to sales director.

When they are sales directors, they are not a good fit for this new role at all. Why did this happen? Was this their fault or yours?

The key to building a high-performing team is ensuring you have the right people in the right roles. When we moved the hypothetical ‘greatest salesperson’ out of a role they were excelling at and into a completely new role, it was not their fault they didn’t succeed.

By helping you identify the right team members for your business, EOS ensures you have a talented, motivated, and dedicated workforce.

Finding out what an individual’s strengths and weaknesses are is a start, but clearly identifying the expectations of each role and defining what measurables (Key Performing Indicators) are equally crucial.

Think of each role in your company as a seat on a bus, with the bus being your business. Placing the right people in the right seats is what will eventually set up your bus for ultimate success.

Teams utilizing EOS, they’ve seen how investing in the right people can transform a business and propel it toward long-term success.

Data: Getting a Grip on Your Business

As business owners, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by emotions, opinions, and personalities.

EOS cuts through the noise and focuses on the data that truly matters.

By boiling down your organization to a handful of objective numbers, EOS gives you a clear pulse on your business’s health and performance.

Issues: Solving Problems Once and for All

Before adopting EOS, most businesses and their leadership teams often address symptoms of problems without addressing their root causes.

Cultivating a supportive environment where issues are openly and freely discussed, debated, and solved, is the only way you’ll eliminate the same problems from arising again and again.

With EOS, businesses have learned to tackle issues head-on, setting them up, knocking them down, and ensuring they don’t resurface.

This proactive approach has made a world of difference in the smooth operation of countless businesses today.

Process: Creating Consistency and Scalability

EOS encourages businesses to identify and document the core processes that define how they operate. It is not reasonable to have the steps to doing something “all in your head.”

There is no opportunity for a business to grow and scale without having systems in place that allow for it. The first step in this systematizing of your business is creating processes and procedures for everyone on your team to follow.

Systemization helps create consistency and scalability, ensuring everyone is on the same page and following the essential procedural steps.

This allows your business to maintain high quality while expanding and growing to new heights that would not be possible without these processes and procedures in place.

We don’t go to the grocery store without a list or want a doctor operating without a procedure to follow. We wouldn’t want someone building our house without a checklist and plan to follow. Why would we assume our businesses are any different?

As you will find with your own business, developing a standardized process can be invaluable in managing your remote professionals effectively.

Traction: Turning Vision into Reality

Finally, EOS brings focus, discipline, and accountability into your organization. Every successful business is a metrics-based business.

This sounds fancy, but it is merely having measurables to hold yourself, your team, and your business accountable.

By assigning specific goals and numbers to each team member, EOS helps ensure that everyone is working together to turn your vision into reality.

This is a level of accountability that is crucial for maintaining momentum and achieving consistent results.

Success Stories: How Entrepreneurial Operating System has Transformed Businesses

There are so many businesses today that have experienced the transformative power of EOS.

One notable example is a property management firm that was struggling with inconsistent processes and a lack of accountability.

After implementing EOS, they saw a significant improvement in their team’s cohesion, streamlined operations, and experienced substantial growth.

Another success story comes from a small business owner who felt overwhelmed by the demands of managing a growing team.

EOS helped them establish clear roles and responsibilities, ensuring that everyone was working towards a unified vision.

As a result, the business saw a boost in productivity and efficiency, allowing the owner to focus on long-term strategic planning.

The Role of the EOS Implementer

An EOS Implementer is a valuable resource for businesses adopting the Entrepreneurial Operating System.

These trained professionals guide business owners and leadership teams through the EOS process, providing support and expertise to help companies gain traction and achieve their goals.

Implementers can seem like a scary investment at first, which is understandable considering that many startups and small businesses are already operating on a ‘shoe-string’ budget.

However, EOS implementers are most often times a very sound investment considering the ROI that they bring to your company.

Self-implementation of EOS is always a very respectable and more affordable option as well. It starts by simply reading Gino Wickman’s book ‘Traction’ and then working through the process with your team.

The biggest challenge with self-implementation has the discipline to be accountable in installing this new system of accountability.

If you believe you need some extra accountability for yourself and your team or if you want to ‘go all in’ and do it right the first time around, then hiring an EOS implementer is a sound investment into your company’s future.

Achieving Long-Term Success with Entrepreneurial Operating System

Business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have implemented EOS have seen firsthand the impact that EOS can have on a company’s success.

Applying the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to your business can bring undeniable benefits.

It provides a simple yet comprehensive framework to improve management, challenge your status quo, and take your organization to new heights of growth and success.

Whether you are just starting out or pivoting for long-term success, you will find that EOS offers valuable insights and processes to guide you forward.

The bottom line is that accountability from the top to bottom and every person on your company’s team is crucial to its success and viability overall.

Accountability is a scary thing for many entrepreneurs, but it is truly the only path forward to accomplishing those “big, hairy, audacious goals” we dream about.

By taking all of these key components into consideration and taking action on them, you will be able to make valuable changes in the near future.

EOS is truly a game-changer for businesses, and if you decide to move forward with implementing it yourself or through a professional EOS implementer, the truth is that you will not be disappointed!

Accountability is a requirement for your company’s success, but with that comes a vow to discipline and commitment to a process that can appear daunting and intimidating at first.

After Entrepreneurial Operating System

Once you do commit to EOS, however, it will undoubtedly be one of the best decisions you can make for your business today.

Anequim connects entrepreneurs, property managers, and small to midsize businesses with highly skilled, bilingual, full-time virtual assistants, who we refer to as Remote Professionals.

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