Do you need help hiring, managing team members or with dreaded firings?
Managing people can be one of the most challenging aspects of a business, no matter the size. Handling 10 employees is, in many ways, as complex as managing 1000 employees. Whether you are a solo entrepreneur preparing to hire your first contractor, a mid-sized company needing to outsource your Human Resources, or a corporate manager needing an outside perspective or voice, I’d love to help you. Here are some of the tasks I’ve tackled:
- Small business hiring/firing techniques
- Designing management systems that fit businesses of all varieties
- Built and manage a team of 20 virtual employees
- Speaking to groups of 5 to 500 on a variety of topics, including team-building
- Mediating employee/contractor and management conflicts
- Writing a successful human resources and management blog, garnering over 1,000 hits weekly
- {insert your business task here!}
In every project handled by The Invisible Office, YOU, the business owner/management, is integral to the process. We work together to find solutions, generate new ideas, and build a system for effectively managing the human element in your business. I’ve got over 5 years of experience in people management, from a multi-region pharmacy company, legal offices, and small-business ownership. In addition, I’m currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology focusing in Workplace Efficiency with the intent to continue to a Ph.D. in Human Resources, bringing my knowledge and learning into a program to develop a resource small businesses can trust for people management.
Why The Invisible Office?When building my own small business after leaving the corporate world in 2009, I wanted to utilize the training and experience I already had to build a team of incredible people. Within just a few months, I had assembled 20 transcriptionists and created a successful service business run completely on a virtual platform. It wasn’t easy, but I learned more and gained incredible insight in the process. It was then I realized I wanted to offer the learning, the challenges, and the skills I harnessed to create my own team with other small businesses and entrepreneurs.
I created The Invisible Office as an action guide for business owners. Complete with online access to videos, interviews, worksheets and more, this book is truly my heart work: sharing the secrets of leveraging the skills of multiple people with the freedom of entrepreneurship, and keeping the “human” aspect of people management at the core of Human Resources.
Erica Cosminsky, Author
Getting StartedWant to know more about me? Ready to check out the book? Get the first chapter free in the sign up box to the right. The Invisible Officewill be published late spring, 2012.
What’s Going On At The Invisible Office?
Do you know what it takes to go from freelancing to owning a company?
How many of you think you could easily make that jump in the next 3
months?Building on my background as an HR manager, I started building a team
of transcriptionists in less than 3 months of starting my business
after I was laid off in 2008. I built a successful team of about 20
women that all work for me virtually. I’ve never met any of them and I
very rarely talk to them on the phone. We use a combination of
Basecamp, Skype and Paypal as our primary tools.I wrote The Invisible Office to help other entrepreneurs leverage the
skills of multiple people rather than living chained to their desks
day in and day out. The Invisible Office is not a textbook, but an
action guide, and much more than a book to help you as a business
owner to build your business to the next level. In addition to the
modules in the book, you will receive online access to videos,
interview recordings, worksheets, spreadsheets and templates.
How many of you think you could easily make that jump in the next 3
months?Building on my background as an HR manager, I started building a team
of transcriptionists in less than 3 months of starting my business
after I was laid off in 2008. I built a successful team of about 20
women that all work for me virtually. I’ve never met any of them and I
very rarely talk to them on the phone. We use a combination of
Basecamp, Skype and Paypal as our primary tools.I wrote The Invisible Office to help other entrepreneurs leverage the
skills of multiple people rather than living chained to their desks
day in and day out. The Invisible Office is not a textbook, but an
action guide, and much more than a book to help you as a business
owner to build your business to the next level. In addition to the
modules in the book, you will receive online access to videos,
interview recordings, worksheets, spreadsheets and templates.
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