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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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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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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. But once they’ve added many new managers, they have to be ready to let go. We don’t have room for people who don’t meet their goals, but that’s from 8 a.m. Nice people don’t always finish first.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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The National Women’s Business Council found that the top five industries (“healthcare and social assistance; professional, scientific and technical services; retail trade; and administrative and support and waste management and remediation services”) made up 66.2% of women-owned businesses.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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The goal is to increase capability—whether through offering new products or services, expanding in capacity or geographically, or cross-promoting,” she says. Create policy for the event that a new innovation stems from the partnership. Proof it works: Schaus’s profits grew by 15% from 2011 to 2012 as a result of her partnerships.

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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These surveys give the firm real-time insights to shape future policy and space design. In our Ann Arbor location for example, which was designed in 2011, we’ve found that when the office is at only 35-percent occupancy meeting spaces are fully booked. The quick survey asks team members three questions: 1) Why were you in the office?

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How Simple Policies Can Change Your Business

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While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. When will you answer calls and return calls?

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Keeping Ethics in the Workplace

Office Dynamics

As you prepare your year-end performance review evaluation, or perhaps just look ahead to your professional goals for 2011, have you considered keeping ethics in the workplace? How will you do this and what will you do toward that goal? However, one distinction rises to the top: a company’s core values and ethics.