Owner To Owner Podcast

Carmen Williams from Global Teams on partnering with Virtual Assistants to grow your business.

Episode Summary

Carmen Williams is a scientist turned business owner who co-founded Global Teams. She is driven to help business owners be more successful and in this episode shares her own experience partnering with virtual assistants that lead her to her current business.

Episode Notes

@CarmenWilliams is the #founder of @GlobalTeams which has grown into a business consisting of 82 #VirtualAssistants. For Carmen (controversially :)) outsourcing isn't about businesses handballing a problem elsewhere for it to be “magically solved.”  At #globalteams they help client's get more from a fuller understanding of #outsourcing and how to best manage finding and working with #businesspartners.  

In this discussion, Carmen shares more on how they support businesses through having a #va as a #teammember. We also cover;

• her own experiences starting various businesses
• quitting a ‘stable’ job to start a business from passion and interest
• How #changingcareerpathways often brings invaluable experience, background and “transferable skills”
• the future of outsourcing
• the different roles Virtual Assistants can play in your business
• how to get the most out of a Virtual Assistant
• the need for a #collaborativeapproach and how that makes it easier for your VA to become a part of the team
• the importance of support to #growabusiness
• Carmen’s experiences of knowing what she needed to do verse what someone else could do
• why #outsourcing   is just as important for #smes as it is for #largebusiness 
• getting to a better #worklifebalance
• the importance of time and effort in the initial set up with a Virtual Assistant 
• the steps to organising a #virtualassistantforbusiness