EP 40: Outsourcing your Household Tasks
“You don’t have to pass a test. Everyone can outsource,” says host Corinne Morahan on today's episode of Get Organized for Good where she discusses outsourcing household tasks, “You, my friend, are in charge.” If you're interested in taking some tasks off of your plate but are nervous about giving up control of those tasks to a professional, Corinne is here to show you how you can use that friction to your advantage–as well as to the advantage of the person whom you hire!
If, like Corinne, you are very particular about even the most minute details of your home, you need to train your housekeeper or house cleaner like you would at any other job or company. You'll learn how you balance trusting a cleaner's expertise without expecting them to read your mind or creating more work for yourself. You'll also hear about what Corinne outsources in her own home and how–with dedication and some sacrifice–she makes it all work.
Everyone is entitled to a little help. Today’s conversation will help you to learn how you can make task outsourcing work best for you.
Quotes
- “Even if you are a stay-at-home mom and you would be the only one doing this and you don’t have a partner that would share it with you, you are still entitled to do this. If you do have a partner, you are entitled to do this. If you work outside the home, you are entitled to do this. You don’t have to pass a test. Everyone can outsource.” (3:00 | Corinne Morahan)
- “Here’s the thing that I think a lot of people don’t realize: you can’t just outsource and cross your fingers and hope for the best. You, my friend, are in charge of making sure that outsourcing goes in a way that meets your needs.” (4:09 | Corinne Morahan)
- “What I don’t want to do is come home on a day that I’ve had a housekeeper or house cleaner here and have to go around and put things away. I don’t want to do that. That’s just then adding another friction point. So the way around that is to train the people who are working for you like you would if you were hiring someone in an office role. You’d train them on their roles and responsibilities. It’s the same thing. You get to be as particular as you want.” (6:42 | Corinne Morahan)
- “Nobody whom you hire is a mind reader. They will be bringing their expertise. They will use their systems to it—as they should. You don’t need to tell them what to be doing in terms of getting the tasks done…but you then get to layer on top of that your specificities. What do you want to see? How do you want it done? They don’t know. They are not a mind reader?” (7:42 | Corinne Morahan)
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