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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

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Despite low productivity, UK firms still don’t look for ways to improve on past performance

Workplace Insight

A large proportion of business owners (65 per cent) and senior managers (82 per cent) have increased their use of project-based methods on everyday tasks, such as introducing measures to identify and manage risk. Despite this, many are still failing to assign enough dedicated project managers to the work.

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Act now on retrofitting if you want to boost commercial property values, new report argues

Workplace Insight

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations in relation to the built environment continue to tighten, impacting both occupiers and landlords/investors,” commented Andy Hay, Managing Director, EMEA Property Management and ESG at Colliers. What’s more, they don’t know how or from where these upgrades can be financed.

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You Can Now Find Community Abroad in Thanks to Digital Nomad Villages

Success

Micaela Vieira, project manager at Startup Madeira, explains that Digital Nomads Madeira Islands was pitched as a pandemic pilot project. Their project is something of a case study, but they’ve received promising feedback.

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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place.

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Improve the Way You Work by Hitting Reset

Jen Lawrence

In the fall of 2022, Harvard Business Review published the results of a case study done with the task-management company Asana. It’s been a wonderful time and task management tool. The goal: to reduce the amount of time spent in meetings. The method: clear the calendar. Next up came the reminders and holds on my calendar.

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Andrew Filev Founder Of Wrike | Reclaiming Lost Productivity & Improving Workplace Culture

Allwork

Guest Episode Video Transcript  Andrew Filev Founder And CEO of Wrike Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading collaborative work management platform. About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects.