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Need for Agility and Skilled Talent Driving Growing Corporate Use of Contingent Workers

Small Business Labs

Ardent Partners recently released their 2017-2018 State of the Contingent Workforce Management report. The report is targeted at procurement and HR professionals who manage contingent workforce programs at larger organizations. This   Also interesting is that reducing cost has fallen to 5th on the challenges list.

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10 Things Effective Leaders Do to Encourage Innovation

Success

When the assumption is that the manager is going to facilitate the solution, it no longer becomes the team’s responsibility to get it done. And they teach futuristic thinking skills to their teams. The reward for succeeding is higher than the cost of failure. This article was published in December 2017 and has been updated.

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Practical Project Management

Practically Perfect PA

After speaking at the Assist Conference Heather Dallas from Dallas Development has written a great follow up blog on her popular Project Management for Assistants session… Taking on a project is a great way of raising your visibility and getting you the recognition you deserve. Is it quality, time or cost?

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

The Skills and Employment Survey 2023 (SES2023), which also involves researchers at UCL, the Universities of Oxford and Surrey and the National Centre for Social Research, will help academics assess the impact of an extraordinary period of turbulence for workers which includes the economic downturn, Cost-of-Living Crisis, Covid-19 and Brexit.

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Seven tips: What to look for in an event supplier

Practically Perfect PA

Recently, the OpenMeet team had the pleasure of participating in the annual Practically Perfect PA Assist Conference 2017 , where we ran a few workshops. Excellent communication skills, keep in touch with their clients. Upfront about service costs, no hidden fees. Is upfront about what their services cost.

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Seven tips: What to look for in an event supplier

Practically Perfect PA

Recently, the OpenMeet team had the pleasure of participating in the annual Practically Perfect PA Assist Conference 2017 , where we ran a few workshops. Excellent communication skills, keep in touch with their clients. Upfront about service costs, no hidden fees. Is upfront about what their services cost.

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Can a PA help their employer be more enterprising?

Practically Perfect PA

Improving the quality of the product or service, speed of delivery, cost of delivery or ease of delivery. However, on the whole managers and leaders are happy for staff members to work on ways of improving the things they already do. Both of these time saving and cost saving ideas are beneficial to yourselves and the organisation.