Q&A May 2023
A rolling Question and Answer session for May 2023.
Welcome again to this month's rolling Q&A. We will take questions throughout the remainder of the week or so, and then some.
Just catching up?
Last month we launched our own Operations Reading List - Or rather, The List for Reading and Then Taking Action. We’ll follow the list up shortly with a few supporting commentaries and some background about how we put this list together, and how we’d put future lists together.
The month before we also opened discussions about how to transition to your own consulting endeavors which included a deeper dive a recap of our (hard fought and hard won) comedy of errors. Ideally there’s something there you can learn from.
Up on the release schedule for this coming month is our views on Outsourcing. It’s currently weighing in at a lean 7k words or so but in keeping with our “new” format and we’ll split it into two posts that will keep it under the email limit. Less comedic errors than our consulting posts, but still plenty of hard fought and hard won lessons. Remember that paywalls are for public safety.
Finally see the About page to give a better sense of, well, what we’re about and how best to get value out of us.
As always if there are specific themes or challenges you would like us to discuss please feel free to raise them.
Introduction
Here's a broad list of where we feel our expertise sits:
Recruitment (and how best to use external recruiters),
Remote work and managing remote teams
Outsourcing and managing outsourced teams and freelancers (To be launched very soon!)
Time management (a recap + a few more Au techniques)
Time management and processes for sales & sales roles
Managing stakeholders in family business' (carry the donkey)
Having said that if we'll always take a look and if something is outside our wheelhouse we'll do our best to refer out to another BowTied or somewhere that can assist you.
As always if you'd prefer to submit (more) anonymously, you can reach us via
bowtiedhippopotamus@gmail.com
Or on the bird app (Direct Messages welcomed)
@BowTiedHippo_
