About 18 months ago I spent a month in Bangalore training technical people how to perform the work that some of my team in back home was doing. Prior to going I had spent some time mapping out the entire process, writing work instructions and creating training presentations so that my new Indian team could survive once I left.
Last night I spent about 40 minutes mapping out the entire process I will be running the business to. Inside the map are spaces for 7 work instructions that need to be written. Once written I will probably do the training slides so that if I engage complete n00bs (like my daughter’s friends) to perform some of the work, they can learn before diving in.
One thing I did learn from my Indian experience is that I am a pretty good teacher. While others had trouble gaining the respect and attention of their groups, my group were pleasant and attentive, and seemed to enjoy the experience. I am hoping to take that into my product creating later on.
I am probably recreating what a million people have created before, but the act of creating such a flow helps me to visualise where I can inject outsourcing and where I would be performing the task myself.
keep an eye on my to-do list to track my progress as I tick each of the tasks off. At this stage the plan is May 30th to be up and running with the first pilot run of externally created sites and content.
Planned and executed my exit from the corporate world. Walked away with a 6 figure payment to boot.