{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 139: Getting The Best From The People Who Work For You With Eventual Millionaire Founder Jaime Masters","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2701,"description":"\nThe Nitty Gritty\n\n* Jaime’s lessons from hiring virtual assistants in the Philippines — and why she eventually hired an employee local to her\n* How Jaime and her team use Asana to manage projects and assign tasks\n* What books and tools Jaime uses to track employee time — and how she uses that as a tool to ensure employees are doing what they love with their time\n* Hear more about Jaime’s approach to the not-so-fun aspect of running a business: firing employees\n* The difference between an owner and an operator — yet how crucial they are to each other’s success\n\nJaime Masters is a business coach and host of the Eventual Millionaire blog and the going-on-seven-years podcast series. In this episode of What Works, Jaime walks us through her process for hiring and keeping employees happy. She also shares her tactics for firing underperforming employees in a fair and diplomatic way.\nCurious about the resources that Jaime mentions on this episode? You can find them all at this link!\nWe release new episodes of What Works every week. Subscribe on iTunes so you never miss an episode.\nWhen hiring an employee is good for business\n“Before I was trying to hide from the responsibility [of having employees] because I had a bad experience. But it made me understand how important it is to not do everything yourself. I thought I was good at everything but my executive assistant was good at so many other things than me. Letting go made a huge different in my sanity. I could double myself.” — Jaime Masters\nBefore Jaime hired her first employee, she tried working with virtual assistants from the Philippines. Jaime was afraid to hire an employee because of negative experiences in the past — and she thought that a V.A. would meet her business needs.\nBut a coach she worked with told her an employee is a good thing. “You’ll be a better business owner because you have that responsibility,” they said. Jaime took that to heart and hired her first employee: an executive assistant. It turns...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}