#23: How to Build a Winning Team with Amber McCue

August 15, 2017

Amber McCue is the founder of NiceOps, an organization that helps busy business owners learn to manage their time and business efficiently and effectively. She is a business operations expert passionate about helping entrepreneurs streamline their success through process-oriented, procedure-based strategies.
Amber joins me in this episode to discuss how entrepreneurs can get more accomplished by outsourcing tasks in their business. She also shares the secrets to building a winning team. We discuss how to identify what tasks you should consider outsourcing as well as the steps to take when hiring your first team member.

In This Episode of The Sigrun Show:

  • The importance of defining your values before you build a winning team
  • How to treat contractors as team members
  • Maintaining relationships with your contractors – even between projects
  • Whether or not to hold regular team meetings
  • Handling responsiveness and creating project charters
  • Creating an organizational chart
  • What to include in a job description
  • Creating a “What Must I Do” list to identify what you should not outsource
  • Mindset shifts associated with hiring and building a team

Key Takeaways:

  • Define your values as a business
  • Conduct a simulation test task
  • Maintain communication and relationships with your team
  • Create metrics to know whether tasks are achieving results

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