6 Secrets to Running a Virtual CompanyWeb Worker Daily

January 01st, 2008 | Category: Tech Talk

Michelle LaBrosse believes she knows how to motivate folks. After all, the company she founded — Cheetah Learning — trains public to achieve their project management credential, the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional or PMP. She says that 97% of the citizens who attend one of Cheetah’s classes will pass their exam.

That focus on motivation trickles through to how she runs her 20-person firm, a totally virtual operation with folks in

Ohio, Connecticut, Nevada, California and Alaska. “I run a boss-free zone,” she says. “We don’t like citizens who want to micro manage. We plus don’t want citizens who want to be babysat.”

How motivated is the staff? One person who had surgery wasn’t making plans to give herself instance off for recovery. After all, the thinking goes, whether we’re working from home offices, why can’t we do it […]

Orginal post by Dian Schaffhauser

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