Why you can’t do it all on your own and what help you need

In today’s episode of the podcast, I talk about hiring a team for your business. I tell you about my own team, how I get stuff done and manage things and why hiring has been so crucial to my business. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST It takes a village to raise a child, and run a business!You may not be able to hire people in your business straight away, it will take time to be able to.If you are working with a part-time VA, be mindful they may not be available every day for you.Before you hire your first member of your team, make sure you have some money in the bank to cover their wages for a couple of months.Every time you hire someone, they will be able to take something off your plate to free up your time.Sometimes you do have to hire people before you can fully afford them – but as soon as they help you, this frees up your time and headspace in order to do more in your business and make money.Having a team that can’t do anything unless you do it, makes you be more productive and holds you accountable.There are people who will be able to certain things better than you can!You do have to let go of some things.There is a hiring process – how you find them, how you communicate, how you set boundaries, what you’re going to pay them, how you onboard them.Systems are so important when it comes to working with a team – you can use something like Trello to organise your processes.Loom is great for recording processes for your team.Hiring people for your team takes time and thought. THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE… You don’t have to do everything! Hiring people to help you in your business can really help to free up your time and allow your business to grow. HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS My team who help me with my business 02:05Building a team 11:43Tips for building your team 15:22The importance of systems 20:00 LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Sofia – Podcast ManagerBen’s Sales Page ServicePhil – Podcast AssistantFREE Front Row CEO training and downloadJen’s podcast episode Transcript Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you? I'm good. I am batching content as we speak or say, as I speak, I'm speaking right now. I'm literally spending the day doing podcast episodes because we've had a really, really busy few months in the business and I got a bit behind not behind as in it didn't come out on time. As in, I like to batch and be ahead and over these last few weeks, I've really well. Last couple of months, I've literally been doing things as they need to doing so I'm working really hard at the moment to get ahead and get organized, which actually flows really nicely into what I want to talk about today. You know, that saying It takes a village to raise a child. Well, I think that can be true about running a business. And often, especially in a business like mine, where I'm the face of my business. It can often seem like there's just me. There's just me and maybe one or two other people. And I do most of the stuff because it's my business. But I want to give you some reality of running a business. I mean, if you're running a business, you'd know the reality. But as in kind of the reality of how I get stuff done, how I manage things, who I've got on my team and why getting that team was absolutely crucial to having the business I have today and the business I hope for going forward. So I guess let's start by going through who helps me and who I have in my world. Now, most of these people are on a business side, but I also have some people helping me on the home front as well. So at work, right. I don't want you to listen to this and think "How on earth I I'm never gonna be able to afford those people. I can't afford to bring them to these people like sounds great Teresa, but yeah, it's not going to happen." Obviously I didn't start day one of this day one I started with no one. About, I don't know, a year, I think into my business at nine months into my business, I then thought, what is this VA thing all about what is a virtual assistant all about and do I need one? And if so, what do they do? And how can they help? And, and my first ever person that came and worked with me was Katie. Who was a godsend and I'll explain more about Katie in a bit. And then I went from Katie and then I got someone else. And then I got someone else, then get someone else. And then we're at the team we are today. Don't listen to this thinking, this isn't going to be relevant because you haven't got a team or maybe you don't think you can afford a team. And I know, like I know they sort of things like that that really are annoying where they're like, well, you know, you can't afford to get one, but really you can't afford not to get one. And you know, and, and it is true, it is weird, but it's true. Anyway, let me tell you who we've got in the team. So I still have Katie with me. Now Katie and this is the thing I want you to think about as I'm talking about this. Katie's role has changed because, you know, as the business changes, you need different people doing different things. So Katie initially came on as a VA to help support me. She did stuff for me. She managed things. She created process on things because I had nothing, literally, nothing, everything was in my head. Everything was like just me doing all the steps. So Katie was a great first person to bring in, but then as time has gone on Katie's role has moved and changed. And Katie, now I speak to roughly every three, four weeks, and we just do an overview of what's coming and what's happened because Katie really now is, is it strategic level. And what she does in her role in her business has changed. And my business has changed. So we've changed Katie's role within my business so that she now really does strategic stuff. She's the one who kind of helps me look really wide into the future and talk about, right. So for instance, we had a call the other week and it was like, what's going to happen in the next six months. So she's really good for that sort of stuff. So Katie is still with me, which is lovely. Then if I do it in kind of, well, there's no particular order, but I've just written them down. So the next person I have working with me is Becci. Now Becci is, she's not full-time, but she does quite a lot of hours for me. And Becci is like my right-hand woman. Becci is the person that I get on a call with every week at the beginning of the week going right. We need to do this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and Becci just goes. "Yeah, sure. I'll take it." Honestly, she's a flipping godsend. She's really good. I talk way faster than I type. So having someone that I can communicate with on a call or zoom or in person, because Becci happens live, not that far from me is just brilliant. Becci's organized. She gets stuff done. She's, you know, she's proactive. She's happy to take on things. So like, you know sometimes like I've worked in the past with people who had say, or could you just have a look at how to do that in Kajabi?  And they'd go, "How do I do it in Kajabi?" And I'd have to find it to then tell them where's Becci really good in the case of she'll go, I can work it out. I'll find it. It's fine. So Becci helps with all aspects of like content planning. She helps us social media scheduling. She helps it planning out my diary when it comes to things like speaking, she gets all the forms arranged. She gets all that stuff done and she does a bit of research. Becci does lots and lots for me in the business. And like I said, she is my right-hand woman. Right, in terms of getting the stuff done. Then we've got Johanne. Johanne is based over in the Philippines and Johanne is full-time. She works full-time for me. And Johanne is like, I get almost a bit like, you know, my right hand as well. Then the fact of Johanne does all the kinds of stuff where I can just. She has processed stuff that she does also stuff like, so this morning I literally just sent us something saying, "Can you just type this up into this format?" or "Can you make that look like that?" Or "Can you do those sorts of things?" So Johanne's kind of around all the time. I wouldn't say she works full-time every single day. Because not every day, I've got stuff for her to have, but I like the fact that she's there in case I need her. Whereas Becci doesn't work full time and therefore, if I've got something that I want doing quickly, I can't necessarily expect Becci always to do it. Which is something to bear in mind when you bring on a team member. That if you're bringing on a VA of some sorts that if you're not paying them full time,...