229: How To Outsource Your Business For Maximum Efficiency With Sharne Calista Gous & Kevin Bees, Profit Maximisation Expert


Presently, Sharne proudly serves as the co-founder of Smart Workforce Solutions, a Virtual Staffing and outsourcing business that she has launched in collaboration with her esteemed Australian business partner Damien Patterson, in January of 2023. Their mission is to bridge geographical boundaries by recruiting South African talent as Virtual Staff for Australian Businesses, facilitating global collaboration, and maximizing efficiency in the digital age.

Sharne shared in this episode:

  • How she is able live her life in 3 different places, Australia, South Africa and Bermuda

  • How she switched her legal career to one in entrepreneurship

  • Why you should ‘trust the journey’, because the things that didn’t go to plan led her to an exciting world with new avenues and opportunities

  • How to encourage frequent and transparent communication

  • The importance of aligning daily actions with the legacy one aims to leave behind

    • The impact of defining a legacy on decision-making and business focus

  • How a chance meeting with Damien Patterson led to creating a new business together.

  • The shocking fact that the South African unemployment rate is 35%+ right now, meaning there is a surplus of skilled staff available to work, in a country where there is no work available

  • How Australians can leverage this opportunity to get highly skilled at significantly lower rates than in Australia

  • Why Australians are hiring South Africans rather than traditional outsource countries like Philippines or India etc

  • The concept of smart workforce solutions based on win-win principles

  • How to avoid micro-managing your team

  • Sharne’s Life-Changing question: “Has what I done today served the legacy I want to leave behind?”

  • How to act with integrity and show up as the best version of yourself every day while maintaining consistency

  • And much more….

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