The Strategy To Nailing Deadlines with Virtual Teams

Hello hello. This is not the ghost of George Carlin’s speaking I repeat, not the ghost. This is merely a humble digital model of his voice. Yeah, I thought I’d seen it all. But I guess they got me living inside a computer now. Anyway, welcome to this new episode of the list building lifestyle show by Igor Kheifets, where we’ll dig into the topic of managing remote teams. Yeah, that’s right. We’ll talk about managing folks you can’t even see in a space that doesn’t even exist. Oh, the wonders of the modern age. So buckle up, folks, we are about to enter a world where you can be in your pajamas on your couch in Kansas right a boss who’s probably in swim trunks on a beach in Bali is still expecting that report by 9am sharp now hold up before you start picturing the garden some snazzy swim trunks, let’s focus on the fact that he’s here today to share his best strategies on managing remote teams so that you as well can ensure that darn report shows up in your inbox on time every time Yeah, that’s right. If that phantom crew of yours is giving you more throbs in the noggin than your cheap bourbon on a Saturday night, it means we should crank up the volume and listen to this episode. Now, believe it or not, I have deadlines to meet as well. I’m running late for the big guy’s morning chuckle So let’s get this show on the road.

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I’m Igor Kheifets. And this is the list building lifestyle. The podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process. This podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my bestselling book, the list building lifestyle Confessions of an email millionaire at www.igorsbook.com. Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email, swipe files, and traffic blueprints, visit www.igorsbook.com for details. And now it’s time to claim your list building lifestyle.

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I think I got lucky in a way because when I launched my business and I was running it on my own, I was forced into this mindset of having to deal with deadlines, where everything I was doing usually was a bit like a mini project on its own. Like when you’ve got an email list and you run promotions to the list. Every promotion is a bit of a mini project where you’ve got a particular time when it’s supposed to start, a particular time when it’s supposed to end and a particular set of things that need to happen in between. So, we want to think of it as kind of like an event, almost like a little seminar. Right? That’s So, how we think about webinars, I think of them as web seminars, which is what they really are, which means you’ve got the time when you gotta get people in the room, the time when people are in the room and the time when they left the room and you’re following up with them. So, coming having, you know, been exposed to that part of the business for so often. A lot of the, you know, many of the initial positions that I ended up hiring for actually included that that was built in. So, I had to structure my systems, my operations around different deadlines. So, for example, if my team consisted of a copywriter who would write my email copy, and myself would craft the offer. And one more person was a tech person who would be loading the emails or building the pages or doing that sort of stuff that I really hate to do, then, you know, it was very clear that we had to get all the assets in place before Monday, January 15, or something like if the promo was about to start that. So, there’s a clear deadline right there, that these things that we need to have in place need to happen way before January 15. So, if my first email for the promotion is supposed to go out on at 8am on Monday, then the email has to be created before 8am On Monday, so it can be then given to the tech person who can load that email into the system before 8am on a Monday, preferably on a Friday preceding that Monday. So, the whole education that I’ve got through deadlines is So, just something to happen out of necessity. And I think without deadlines, nothing gets done. I tried working in an environment where it would kind of give some of my team members creative freedom, and I sort of expected for them to make things happen. But that never happened. And what I’ve learned is if you want to get the most out of your team, you want to outline a clear outcome that you’re looking to create. You then want to tell them what are the assets that they need to have in place before that project needs to start and then you want to set a clear deadline is super specific deadline down to the hour, not just the day or the week down to the hour and you must tell them that this is the deadline and this is when it

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needs to be done, even if the deadline, by the way, is completely artificial, even if that deadline is totally made up. And even if they know it, and you know, they’ll still work towards that deadline, there’s a law that’s called the Parkinson’s So, Law. And it states that the task or work will take as much time as it is allowed to take. In other words, if you assign a three-hour block of time to writing an email, it’s going to take you about three hours to write an important email. But if you assign a 30-minute block to the same email, you will find yourself writing an email in 30 minutes. So that is true. You can go and test it, you can you know, tomorrow, now that you’ve listened to this podcast episode, you can go and, you know, try it out, you know, whatever, whatever task you’ve got. And however much time you have, you’ve assigned for yourself, cut that time in half and tried to do it in half the time like create a deadline that’s half the time, and you’ll see that you’ll be able to get it done. And so, it works with employees and team members as well freelancers, or whether you hire them on a full-time basis, it’s always going to be the same. You’re going to set a deadline, you’re going to set an outcome, and they’re going to go and figure it out.

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