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Key skills round-up 2019

Practically Perfect PA

I hope you enjoy our key skills round-up 2019. We covered a lot of skills including minute taking, event management, organising business travel, project management and everything in between! Here are our […].

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

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. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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The Most Common Professions of Skilled Freelancers Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

To help with this problem, the MBO Partners 2019 Client of Choice study used natural language processing tools to help categorize independent workers who provide services to businesses. Creative services, healthcare and sciences and project management have been fast growing fields for independent workers.

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Rethinking Work Perks: 5 Things Employees Want More Than ‘Fun’ At Work

Success

Penelope Cline, a project manager, HR manager and talent scout, loves the quarterly home office stipend provided by her company, which allows employees to purchase items they get to keep or to use the funds for external workspaces such as WeWork or Selina.

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The 4-Day Workweek Massive Pilot Results Are in—It Was a “Resounding Success.”

Success

So, in 2019, they transitioned by offering an option of a four-day workweek with one long shift and three six-hour days, or a typical five-day workweek with hours consistently spread over five days. “The “We have to change, or we won’t survive. 4 day workweeks—the future of work scheduling?

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

Success

In 2019, 7.3 Micaela Vieira, project manager at Startup Madeira, explains that Digital Nomads Madeira Islands was pitched as a pandemic pilot project. The internet offered such an ease of communication and connection, they reasoned, that soon workers wouldn’t need to be tethered to their desks or their bosses.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

Crew members fulfill these needs from nonPareil Institute’s accommodating environment while gaining job and project management skills, working with others, meeting deadlines, earning a check and strengthening their resume and portfolio.