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Outsourcers, yes you! The one hiring Filipinos online doing the work for you paying us the fraction of the cost... yes am talking to you.

You might probably have heard of some horrible outsourcing experience, where offshore employees that slack, don't comprehend, poor quality and worst disappear or AWOL.

Dang! Wait, before you wave you white flag and throw the towel to the ring, let us first analyze what made them do that(like disappearing or slacking or not comprehending properly)

Let us check these 7 deadly outsourcing mistakes that could have doomed your way:

1. Over Micromanagement

Micromanagement is good, but more than micro is not good. Keep your distance and let your employees at least commit mistakes. We learn by mistakes not by succeeding, isn't it?

2. Iron Fisting

All work with no praise is considered iron fisting. Give your workers a praise for a good work, even simple tasks that is religiously done is worth praising for.

3. Over Expectation

Reverse your psychology, it's always better to expect less and get more, than expect more and get less. try to be considerate specially during the first month of probation period with your newly hired employees.

4. Demanding

It is not OK to be demanding even if you are paying us. Filipinos have a different set of culture with a different paradigm definition of what 'demanding' is. Asking something you can't even do is not reasonable at all. Make sure, before you assign and demand something, you can also do it equivalently. If else, better not demand.

5. God Complexity

You are no longer open for opinion, and you only listen to yourself, which you consider all knowing. That is a big fat no no when it comes to this business. And on any kind of business. In a working environment, being open is one key ways to succeed, and if your'e not, you are actually closing doors to your success.

6. Perfectionism

Nothing more to explain, because you think it's flawed, so no need to explain but reject. Nothing is perfect, and you simply want everything to be perfect. You let your employees exert too much effort, even on small things in order to be perfect. Remember the 80-20 rule? 80% of success comes from 20% of effort. try not to make things perfect, acceptable is enough,

7. No Direction

No goals, no bounds, no sets of objectives and you are surefire spiraling down the sink. Remember, a business needs a model and you are the executive. There must be a backbone and you are the one setting it. You can not expect your workers to do it for you. You must have, first and foremost, have the initiative to set the sail and direct where your business must go.

Do you ever have at least one of those mentioned 7 deadly outsourcing sins? Think again, you might have one clinging at your back. It's like a monkey that clings and you are definitely most not aware of.