Small Biz Matters – a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it.
with Alexi Boyd, broadcaster, advocate and small business owner.
Date: 14 July 2020
Staff you never see, emails flying around at all times of the day, meetings on a screen… Welcome to the new world of staff and team management for small business. And if you hadn’t already nailed time tracking, online comms and screen sharing you might have just had a steep learning curve in the past few months.
So now we’re faced with this new normal being a long term reality.
Well, for some of us it’s new but for some tech savvy companies out there who are used to rapid growth, remote staff and everything being online it’s business as usual?
So what can we learn from these experts?
Well, for starters a workplace culture that evolves, hiring for values and not a creating a monoculture and crystal clear comms are key. Vu Tran the co-founder of GO1, a successful and fast growing tech company specialising in training software - with an interesting journey of his own to share.
Welcome to the show Vu.
Topics we’ll be covering:
How can businesses foster a strong organisational culture as more team members than ever are working from home?
As a larger business how do you draw on that experience of adapting to change from when you were a startup?
How do you find the different staff?
How do you remain clear in communication with a larger staff base?
o Focus on key areas & metrics and then subgoals. Everyone in the company knows which goes we contribute to
o OKR’s is the system; setting objective and goal setting around this. Stretch goals so individuals know where they sit in achieving those goals. The objectives are met from bottom up not top down.
o Even though we’re digital we still use butcher paper!
o K.I.S.S
How do you remain clear in communication in this remote workforce?
o Straight up Q&A with the leaders
How are you dealing with anxiety in your workplace?
To find out more go to their website: https://www.go1.com/en-au/
About our Guest:
Vu Tran is the co-founder and Head of Growth at GO1.com, the world’s largest onboarding, compliance and professional development platform; a global business founded in Brisbane, Australia. Vu oversees GO1.com's structure and strategy, manages projects and stakeholder engagement while also working part-time as a practicing GP.
About GO1
GO1.com makes it easy for businesses to train their staff, with the world’s largest compliance, professional development and general training marketplace. By providing a single platform that extends from first aid training through to degree bearing courses, GO1 makes it easy to find and compare the best training options available. The marketplace features over 500,000 courses and other learning items created by local and international experts. Customers include SEEK.com.au, Oxford University, State and Local Governments and St John Ambulance.
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