TalkWithToluDavids’, the podcast that teaches you how to start a business or grow your existing business in Africa is now live on six(6) international podcast platforms including google podcast, Spotify and anchor.
One of the reason why we decided to create this amazing platform is to encourage and mentor young Africans that want to start or grow a legitimate business.
My favourite quote for today is ”Remote work is the future of work.”
-Alexis Ohanian, Reddit
In this episode, we're going to be reviewing advantages, disadvantages and Getting people & technology platform right.
What is a virtual office; this is a organisation where work is done outside of the definition place. The management of such work is done remotely or virtually.
You might get overwhelmed with how to move forward after Covid-19 pandemic effect. Some organization will find it easier to embrace virtuality while other may not. For founders and managers the following key factors are important in making a success of a virtual organisation.
Advantages
1. Distance does not hinder the accomplishment of work, meeting, collaboration, sales, conferences etc.
2. Productivity level increases significantly.
3. Overhead cost reduces significantly.
4. Work can be spread across time zones.
5. Your organisation can focus more on primary objective.
Disadvantages
1. Requires technology tool understanding by management
2. Empowers employees.
3. Trust and loyalty is key ingredient always on check.
4. explore new way of working.
Platform/Peoples Strategies
1. Manage people through a collaborative platform and give people access to express themselves.
2. Maintain effective communication & training strategy. I.e we meet on a weekly basis virtually.
3. Alignment of goals is important because people comes from several culture and background.
4. Make sure the potential for chaos is eliminated.
5. Ensure your team knows how to effectively use the adopted technology tools.
Let me remind you that working virtually does not totally eliminate the need for physical office. If you are in Nigeria or perhaps foreigner planning to run business in Nigeria. One of the company that does virtual office is Business World Centre (BWC) Virtual Office and it's the most cost-effective way to own an office and run your business. They run a yearly subscription model and I will drop the contact details in the link below
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+2348130336602
www.businessworldng.org
I am a Nigerian businessman with business solution presence in 20 African countries, I have built companies from zero to hundreds of millions in yearly revenue even in an African business ecosystem where people says it's pretty tough and I believe sharing my personal experience will help you on your entrepreneurial journey of building amazing companies.
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