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Yoni Kozminski talks with Jason Barnard about building elite remote teams for startup success.Yoni Kozminski is a Co-Founder and CEO of MultiplyMii - an expert recruitment for the top 1% of Philippines-based talent and Escala - a boutique process improvement management, specializing in SOPs, organizational strategy, and project management tool integration.Yoni Kozminski shares proven strategies for hiring and managing top global talent. He shares his expertise, specifically focusing on his experiences with Filipino talent, highlighting the cost benefits, high education levels, and motivation of workers in the Philippines. Yoni also highlights the challenges, such as cultural differences and turnover, and provides practical tips for overcoming them.Learn how to maintain team motivation even without physical office spaces and find out why clear expectations and preparation are crucial for remote success. This is a compelling conversation for entrepreneurs ready to expand their global workforce.What you’ll learn from Yoni KozminskiThis episode was recorded live on video December 10th 2024https://youtube.com/live/B4IFKtUZxCILinks to pieces of content relevant to this topic:Yoni KozminskiTranscript from Building Elite Remote Teams for Startup Success - Fastlane Founders with Yoni Kozminski[[[[[[And I have to use that really weird URL to actually get that to trigger when I search your name. And that is your Google stamp of approval when somebody searches your name. That's Google saying, I understand who Yoni is and I believe him to be a credible authority in his market. And at Kalicube, we believe every entrepreneur worth their salt should have a Knowledge Panel trigger when you search their name.[[[So you're getting, highly educated English speakers who are really motivated. a lot of these people, it's the first of their family to go to college, so a lot of the rest of the family is now dependent on them. So you're getting these educated, motivated, and, I would say, workhorses, if you will, who really want to excel and deliver. And I would say there's that really healthy balance of, I would say, like onshore versus offshore talent. You probably want to be a little bit careful not to think that you can swap every single person that you currently have in your team locally for someone that lives abroad. But I think that you can push a lot further than what you might believe to be the case.[[[[And I think I see this throughout Asia in general. So to have that behavior, if you're someone who's going to shout at your team members and not give them the time or breathing room to build a safe environment, then you're going to lose that team member or you're going to lose a healthy, cohesive relationship pretty quickly. And that would be different to South Africa and that would be different to the Ukraine in Russia and so on. I'd say for the Philippines that would be one key aspect. And I would say one thing to again, when we talk about building culture with Filipino talent, one really important thing is to build that safe space. they're not going to be, they're not going to be culturally someone who's going to be proactive is the wrong term. But going above and beyond from the standpoint of engaging in something that doesn't feel quite right to them. So until you can build a really healthy circular environment whereby they feel confident tha



