Where can I find administrative assistants for my business?

Yes but you need to spend a fair amount of time in person so that you'll be effective together. "Date" online for the co-founder but once you've found a likely partner, spend time together to make sure it's a good fit.

Hi - i would first start with your goals. if this is to be a group for your team to interact and share, a system like Teams, Slack or Monday are good alternatives that have cloud interfaces and have a ton of functionality. For more open groups, Facebook groups are pretty robust. Could you tell me a little more about how you want to use the group and the overall goal as that may help define your solution better. -JL

A way that you can help your team is to communicate expectations clearly and early. This includes team meetings, how you work together, and 1-2-1s with managers to see how everything is going. It’s important that managers or team leaders have clearly communicated with their team what project milestones need to be met and when, what roles everyone has, and how everyone is expected to keep in touch both internally and with clients. There are now plenty of tools on the market to communicate and work collaborative together, including Slack and Google hangouts for instant messaging, Zoom for video call, and Asana and Click-up for Task / Project management. I would be happy to talk to you about other ways you can work best with your remote team, and if you wish to talk further, please book a call with me.

Here's a system a masterminded with Joel of Buffer (pun intended). General rules: Break the session into 3 parts and set time limits. Stick to one mastermind group partner for each session. Take it in turns for each part of the session. Prep: Have your achievements and challenges list ready before the meeting 1. Spend 10mins celebrating "achievements" from the previous week. Can be big achievements or small. doesn't matter as long as they're meaningful to you. 2. Spend 5 mins doing "reflections". These are your reflections on the challenges you had last week. 3. Challenges: 25mins. Express your "challenge" and let the other person lead you to a resolution through a series of guided questions as part of a discovery. Note: It is imperative that your partner never gives you an answer but only asks guiding questions. Joel's company uses this system amongst all his staff and the company just got valued at $60m. You can read about it on techcrunch or on his blog. If you want more detail on how to run a successful MMG or want to hear the story of how he and I spent a year doing this every week for a whole year. You know where to find me. :)

I cofounded a development agency that's grown to over 150 employees, so I know this topic intimately. First off, you're on the right track. Even recognizing that you want to get yourself out of the minutiae puts you way above most founders. What you need to do is learn to delegate. The trouble is, that's a lot harder than it sounds. It sounds like right now you're wrapped up in doing a lot of daily tasks. That's a natural impulse for a founder – after all, you want things to be done right. But here's an exercise I'd recommend: make a list of every single task you have to get done within the course of a day. Everything on your to-do list. Then, circle every item on the list that only you are capable of doing – so only circle the items that no other person could do. Chances are, you'll circle very few, if any tasks. Now for all the items that aren't circled, write the names of anyone else who could do the task next to it. Then, pick a person and delegate each task. It's that simple! Delegation is hard at first, but it's vital if you want to grow. Once you free yourself from minute detail work, you're free to think and act like an agency head and see the bigger picture. It's amazing how much clearer things get when you can give yourself more room to breathe. Trust me, you'll thank yourself for it.