So, are you ready to stop settling for this frustrating, crazy-making approach to running a business? Are you itching to get back to doing what you love for the people who really need you?

Because the THRIVE Hiring System is finally here.

Learn proven strategies and tools for finding, hiring, and working with support teams that bolster YOUR success – consistently and reliably.

Click here to register: THRIVE Hiring System

We’ve got your hiring needs covered, from soup to nuts…

6 LIVE training calls, including:

• Team module: Who You Need and When
• Hire module: Find and Hire the Right People
• Release module: Letting Go So Your Team Can Support You Effectively
• Incentive module: Compensating Your Team to Contribute to the Bottom Line
• Validate module: Building Long Term Relationships With Your Team
• Expand module: Next Steps as Your Business Grows

• PLUS 2 “open mike” Q&A calls with me, Tina Forsyth
• PLUS 1 year of access to the THRIVE Directory & Job Board 
• PLUS a 1-year membership to the THRIVE Community Discussion Board (online)

For just $497, you can END the outsourcing misery for good and start THRIVING as an entrepreneur.

Click here to register: THRIVE Hiring System

Can you imagine? In less than 2 months, you could have a team of professionals who rally to SUPPORT YOU, exactly how you need it.

No more babysitting. No more drama. No more running for cover when something blows up. (Even better … how about no more stuff blowing up in the first place!?!)

Start LOVING Your Business Again…

Because when you have the right team in place, living that 6- or 7-figure dream no longer seems impossible but very realistic.

Our video series re: the Top 10 Questions about how to find, hire and work with a virtual team is complete – missed any of the videos? Not a problem, you can check them out here. 

Just to recap we covered:

1. How do I know who I need to hire in the first place?
2. What attributes should I look for when hiring someone?
3. What do I delegate vs. keep to myself?
4. How to know if someone can actually do what they say?
5. Where is the best place to find the people I need?
6. How can I afford the help I need?
7. How to know when to fix something vs. fire the person?
8. How can I get great people to stay with me?
9. I think I’m a control freak, yipes! What to do?
10. How can I make sure I’m not settling?

As mentioned in the videos we are putting the final touches on the new THRIVE Hiring System – which is a complete step-by-step program to take you through the hiring process from start to finish (it will open up for registration next week.) 

If you would like to take this further and get this team thing figured out once and for all let me ask you… 

What would you like me to cover in this new program?

Just post your comment below or send me an email if you prefer. I want to make sure to include as much as possible for you to get the right team in place. 

Many thanks!

Welcome to the tenth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

How can I make sure I’m not settling?

There is a difference between being a control freak and having high-standards for your business. Get real with yourself re: what level of support you really want and need – and call your team up to those standards.

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

Welcome to the ninth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

I think I’m a control freak, yipes! What to do…?

As the owner of a business I get that it can be hard (really hard!) to let go and let our team take over – and yet we know this is necessary to grow a business, we can’t do it all right? In this video I share with you a few strategies that have worked for me as a ‘recovering’ control freak.

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

Welcome to the eighth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

How can I get great people to stay with me?

It’s one thing to find great people, but what can you do – as the business owner – to ensure that they stay with you long term?

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

Welcome to the seventh video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

How to know when to fix something vs. fire the person?

Problems will always arise from time to time in our working relationships, the key is to make sure that you don’t let them drag on too long. There is a strategy that I like to use when it comes to knowing if something is fixable or if it’s time to let someone go…

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

Welcome to the sixth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

How can I afford the help I need?

How to make your team a “profit centre” for your business, so that the work they do ultimately helps bring money in the door (and doesn’t just cost you) …

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

Welcome to the fifth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

Where is the best place to find people?

There is a great place to find people that many business owners don’t consider… and something that annoys me that I want to change.

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…

I’ve always been the smart one…

In fact i’ve taken great pride for most of my life in being a very smart person – the one that people turn to when they need answers. (I distinctly remember in grade 3 deciding I was going to be smart and had straight A report cards all throughout school after that.)

I exceled in any job that I had because I was smart – I can figure things out and get the job done. My business is built on a foundation of being smart as an Online Business Manager helping my clients and now training other people to do the same.

And now for the first time in my business (and in my life really) i’m no longer the “smartest of the bunch.”

I’ve had some moments lately where I was no longer the one with all the answers – the people around me have been coming up with some great stuff, and quite honestly stuff that is much better than I ever could have come up with myself. I’ve been very purposeful in this whole journey – being a control freak by nature i’ve been consciously working on letting go and letting my team take over these past few months. And yet I didn’t realize that part of this shift would be about me letting go of having to be the “smart one” as well.

For example, we opened up the next OBM Training for early bird registration in June… and the application process requires that we talk 1-1 with people to ensure the program is a fit for them. As always I was going to do these calls myself but my OBM Tiffany gave me a good ole slap on the wrist and said “you have enough on your plate right now, why don’t I do these calls?”

I’ll admit, at first I was quite resistant – it felt tough to let go of that and quite honestly a bit risky as this was a new thing for Tiffany to take on – but I was super busy and I know Tiffany rocks so that’s what we did.

Well let me tell you – along the way Tiffany was seeing things in the entire process that I wasn’t seeing and came up with some awesome ideas (including our super cool OBM Summer School.) Not only does she love doing these calls and talking to our potential trainees, she’s really really good at it… and yes, probably better than me.

Because of this and a few other cool things that the people around me have come up with (including a doozy from my OBM Mentorship gals… stay tuned for that one) i’ve had many moments lately where i’ve thought:

“Why didn’t I think of that?”

And at first it felt a bit ick… some ego bruising if you will. Cause i’ve always been the smart one right? I should be the one coming up with all these cools ideas! I’ve actually had moments when I wondered if I was becoming “dumb” and losing my edge (kinda like having pregnancy brain – i certainly had some dumb moments then!)

But it occurs to me, literally as i’m writing this, that because i’m releasing things to my team i’m no longer the one on the front lines anymore… and therefore i’m not the best person to come up with the ideas from the front lines. In fact, if I tried to that probably would make me dumb… as i’m not plugged into what’s going on there anymore and would basically be guessing.

So yes, my team is smarter than me and will continue to be in many ways i’m sure… and i’m learning how to embrace that even when my inner smarty pants is resisting. I’ve heard people say over the years “hire people who are smarter than you” but I never really understood why they recommended that until now… because now I get to have awesome people moving the big vision for my business forward and I don’t have to do it all myself! I’ve understood that from a ‘doing’ perspective for a long time – no one can DO it all – but now I get that it’s also important from a THINKING perspective. I don’t have to be the only one coming up with cool ideas for the biz – and I feel really blessed to have a team that allows that to be or otherwise my head might explode.

Where is your team smarter than you? Or let me ask another way… where COULD your team be smarter than you if you gave them the space to do so?

Welcome to the fourth video in our Top 10 Question series re: how to find, hire and work with a virtual team. (Click here to access a list of all videos and to sign up for email notification of new videos)

Today’s video answers the question:

How to know if someone can actually do what they say?

There are a couple of things you can do to see what someone is capable of before you make a big commitment (and investment.)

Questions? Thoughts? Pings? Aha’s or eek’s? Please share via comments below…