The Smart, Courageous, and Fun Team Kalicube (Business Growth Talks Podcast)
The Smart, Courageous, and Fun Team Kalicube – Kalicube Knowledge Nuggets
In this video, entrepreneur and CEO of Kalicube, Jason Barnard shares how he formed his smart, courageous and fun Team Kalicube from just one person to 22 talented individuals over three and a half years. For the full story, make sure to watch the video until the end.
What you’ll learn:
00:00 Mark Hayward and Jason Barnard
00:01 Who’s Part of Team Kalicube?
00:16 When Did Jason Start Building Team Kalicube?
00:45 Why Did Jason Choose to Build a Significant Part of Team Kalicube in the Philippines?
“This Knowledge Nugget is taken from the Business Growth Talks Podcast.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4TDeoLESQQ
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Transcript from The Smart, Courageous, and Fun Team Kalicube – Kalicube Knowledge Nuggets
Mark Hayward: So tell me about your team. Who is your team currently? Who do you, who’s part of your power team in your business?
Jason Barnard: I have the most wonderful team in the world, 22 people in the Philippines. It’s a Philippine-based team. The heads of all the departments are in the Philippines, and we’ve built that up from one person three and a half years ago.
Mark Hayward: Oh. So relatively, relatively recently, it’s been a change, a pivot in your business. And why have you chosen Filipinos? They’re great. We work with Filipinos as well, and I’ve got total respect for them. But why is, was it price conscious that you went to the Philippines? Was it skill set? Was it the standard they were, the language? Why did you move so many of your team to the Philippines?
Jason Barnard: It’s actually been quite a journey. A friend of mine who has a team in the Philippines said, you need a team, why don’t you try the Philippines? And she described to me exactly how she was working with her team in the Philippines, and it corresponded to how I had been working with my team in the children’s media company in Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean.
So Mauritius is part of Africa. And I could see the similarities between a team I had already managed and how it might work in the Philippines. So I started looking for people in the Philippines, but I was looking everywhere in the world. So we had somebody in Switzerland, we had somebody in Ukraine, we had somebody in France, somebody else in Slovenia.
And all of the other people have now left. And that’s been an interesting experience for me, because the more the team became focused in the Philippines, the more I saw that actually the whole operation could be in the Philippines and that the people in the Philippines who were standing up and being leaders were very much up to the task.
