Grow your business with a digital workplace (2 of 2)

Staffing your new business has never been easier with today's digital workplace! Staffing your new business has never been easier with today's digital workplace!     Hi   Yesterday we looked at Phase 1 of staffing your business by using freelancers, so today we'll look at the following Phases and in particular harnessing the project management skills of a Technical Co-Pilot.   In Phase 1 we discussed scaling up your business by using freelancers, hiring them for different jobs as needed when establishing your business. This week we look at the next Phase in growing your business with a digital workplace. Hi   Yesterday we looked at Phase 1 of staffing your business by using freelancers, so today we'll look at the following Phases and in particular harnessing the project management skills of a Technical Co-Pilot.   In Phase 1 we discussed scaling up your business by using freelancers, hiring them for different jobs as needed when establishing your business. This week we look at the next Phase in growing your business with a digital workplace. Phase 2 This is the phase that will require a more formal staff on-boarding. The staff you choose to hire depends on which area you need the most support.     During this phase you could create a hybrid workplace comprised of both in-house staff and freelancers.   Your in-house staff could be comprised of team members you require face-to-face interaction with on a daily basis, and your freelancer team could be comprised of teams responsible for longer form tasks that don't require your daily physical presence (such as software development).   Phase 3 and beyond As you progress your staff structure, you could continue with the same methodology of a hybrid workplace and hire additional freelance staff whenever you need to supplement a skills shortage.   If your business is capable of operating in a purely digital workspace, there's no reason why you can't build your entire business on a freelancer model; the lower overheads will keep your investors very pleased. Phase 2 This is the phase that will require a more formal staff on-boarding. The staff you choose to hire depends on which area you need the most support.     During this phase you could create a hybrid workplace comprised of both in-house staff and freelancers.   Your in-house staff could be comprised of team members you require face-to-face interaction with on a daily basis, and your freelancer team could be comprised of teams responsible for longer form tasks that don't require your daily physical presence (such as software development).   Phase 3 and beyond As you progress your staff structure, you could continue with the same methodology of a hybrid workplace and hire additional freelance staff whenever you need to supplement a skills shortage.   If your business is capable of operating in a purely digital workspace, there's no reason why you can't build your entire business on a freelancer model; the lower overheads will keep your investors very pleased. Hiring a Technical Co-Pilot (digital project manager) In order for your digital workspace to be scalable you should hand over the role of recruiting and managing all of your freelancer staff to somebody else.   It takes time to post projects onto a freelancer platform, review all applicants and then, after all that, manage each project.    Doing all these things yourself would be contradictory to the time efficient benefits of the digital workplace model. You may as well hire only in-house staff and absorb the associated higher costs.   Fortunately a solution has been developed to help mitigate this problem: Technical Co-pilots.   Think of a Technical Co-Pilot as your personal digital project manager for all your freelancer projects. They help streamline your entire freelancer workforce efforts.   Here's how it works: You advise the Technical Co-pilot what you need done The Technical Co-Pilot sources the best freelancers for the job  The Technical Co-pilot manages the entire project until completion and acts as your single point of communication for your entire freelancer team Besides the obvious benefit of managing your fleet of freelancers, there are 4 other major benefits of onboarding a Technical Co-Pilot:   1. They provide you with valuable project insight.   A Technical Co-Pilot can actively advise you on the best methods of orchestrating each of your projects using their extensive project management experience.   2. They provide you with key metrics to help you monitor your overall business performance.   Rather than investing extensive time and money trying to figure out the best methods of measuring the health status of your startup, your Technical Co-Pilot will provide you with all the metrics you need. The ability to monitor the all-around performance of your startup from its very infant stages will give you an incredible advantage over your competitors because it will help you instantly identify troublesome areas that require your immediate intervention.   3. Technical Co-pilots streamline communication   If you decide to build a solely digital workplace, these digital project managers could be the only employees you interact with, making your communication network as efficient as possible.   You'll only have to communicate instructions once to a few Technical Co-Pilots, and they'll relay it to their corresponding freelancer teams.   4. Technical Co-pilots will help you assume the actual role of founder   The digital workplace managed by Technical Co-Pilots frees you from the management of mundane day-to-day activities, allowing you to focus solely on what a founder should be focusing on: growing the business. Hiring a Technical Co-Pilot (digital project manager) In order for your digital workspace to be scalable you should hand over the role of recruiting and managing all of your freelancer staff to somebody else.   It takes time to post projects onto a freelancer platform, review all applicants and then, after all that, manage each project.    Doing all these things yourself would be contradictory to the time efficient benefits of the digital workplace model. You may as well hire only in-house staff and absorb the associated higher costs.   Fortunately a solution has been developed to help mitigate this problem: Technical Co-pilots.   Think of a Technical Co-Pilot as your personal digital project manager for all your freelancer projects. They help streamline your entire freelancer workforce efforts.   Here's how it works: You advise the Technical Co-pilot what you need done The Technical Co-Pilot sources the best freelancers for the job  The Technical Co-pilot manages the entire project until completion and acts as your single point of communication for your entire freelancer team Besides the obvious benefit of managing your fleet of freelancers, there are 4 other major benefits of onboarding a Technical Co-Pilot:   1. They provide you with valuable project insight.   A Technical Co-Pilot can actively advise you on the best methods of orchestrating each of your projects using their extensive project management experience.   2. They provide you with key metrics to help you monitor your overall business performance.   Rather than investing extensive time and money trying to figure out the best methods of measuring the health status of your startup, your Technical Co-Pilot will provide you with all the metrics you need. The ability to monitor the all-around performance of your startup from its very infant stages will give you an incredible advantage over your competitors because it will help you instantly identify troublesome areas that require your immediate intervention.   3. Technical Co-pilots streamline communication   If you decide to build a solely digital workplace, these digital project managers could be the only employees you interact with, making your communication network as efficient as possible.   You'll only have to communicate instructions once to a few Technical Co-Pilots, and they'll relay it to their corresponding freelancer teams.   4. Technical Co-pilots will help you assume the actual role of founder   The digital workplace managed by Technical Co-Pilots frees you from the management of mundane day-to-day activities, allowing you to focus solely on what a founder should be focusing on: growing the business. Growing a Startup with a Technical Co-Pilot   A single Technical Co-Pilot could be contracted whenever the core team decides to activate a particular aspect of the business to test a product ideas or business functions.   If market research is required to either prove a need for a solution or to discover one, a request could be submitted to a Technical Co-Pilot who would then source the best freelancers for the job and manage the project to completion. It is important to note that the Technical Co-Pilots are not necessarily hiring full time freelancer staff in any of the above instances. Instead, they're contracting freelancers temporarily to quickly fill all of the early ad hoc requirements of the business.   The Technical Co-Pilots themselves are not hired full time either. They're contracted by the core team whenever their services are required.   Scaling a startup with a Technical Co-Pilot (digital project manager) Scaling is a much simpler process with a Technical Co-Pilot. Simply advise them of your updated output requirements and they'll scale their respective freelancer workforce accordingly.   Likewise, as shown above, the Technical Co-Pilot workforce can be scaled by simply contracting more of them.   This digital method of staffing a workplace is producing a new generation of startups that can scale faster than ever before in history. Conclusion It's imperative for you to strategically build up the staffing structure of your business in order to avoid the disastrous effects of premature scaling. Don't underestimate the power of a Technical Co-Pilot and the use of freelancers to delegate work to and get your business running on all cylinders!  Growing a Startup with a Technical Co-Pilot   A single Technical Co-Pilot could be contracted whenever the core team decides to activate a particular aspect of the business to test a product ideas or business functions.   If market research is required to either prove a need for a solution or to discover one, a request could be submitted to a Technical Co-Pilot who would then source the best freelancers for the job and manage the project to completion. It is important to note that the Technical Co-Pilots are not necessarily hiring full time freelancer staff in any of the above instances. Instead, they're contracting freelancers temporarily to quickly fill all of the early ad hoc requirements of the business.   The Technical Co-Pilots themselves are not hired full time either. They're contracted by the core team whenever their services are required.   Scaling a startup with a Technical Co-Pilot (digital project manager) Scaling is a much simpler process with a Technical Co-Pilot. Simply advise them of your updated output requirements and they'll scale their respective freelancer workforce accordingly.   Likewise, as shown above, the Technical Co-Pilot workforce can be scaled by simply contracting more of them.   This digital method of staffing a workplace is producing a new generation of startups that can scale faster than ever before in history. Conclusion It's imperative for you to strategically build up the staffing structure of your business in order to avoid the disastrous effects of premature scaling. Don't underestimate the power of a Technical Co-Pilot and the use of freelancers to delegate work to and get your business running on all cylinders!      Speak to a Technical Co-Pilot for FREE to see how they can help grow your business today!     Speak to a Technical Co-Pilot for FREE to see how they can help grow your business today!   Get your 30min FREE trial Johannes Gutenberg @JoGu ran Freelancers first contest ever in 1437 to improve the design of his printing press. He received 83 entries and awarded the contest to the design by a young freelancer, Xavier Erox @Xerox. Johannes Gutenberg @JoGu ran Freelancers first contest ever in 1437 to improve the design of his printing press. He received 83 entries and awarded the contest to the design by a young freelancer, Xavier Erox @Xerox. How can Freelancer etch your idea into the pages of history? How can Freelancer etch your idea into the pages of history?   © 2022 Freelancer Technology Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved. 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