Allwork
DECEMBER 10, 2023
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.
Office Dynamics
JANUARY 21, 2020
I would like to address the recent article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2020 by Rachel Feintzeig regarding The Vanishing Executive Assistant. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away.
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Success
JUNE 23, 2021
In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers. You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If The choice to send workers home felt temporary in 2020.
Success
MARCH 16, 2023
I try to schedule lunch or coffee with a friend once a week in order to have a little socialization on my calendar. As you do, smile and say ‘hi’ to everyone you see, including your building’s door manager, the janitor, any neighbor walking outside, the person taking your order at the restaurant or anyone [else] you happen to see,” she says.
Allwork
AUGUST 30, 2022
in 2020 to 8.5% While your management team or HR organization may have certain ideas on what’s essential for retaining a loyal, productive workforce, go directly to your workers, such as via a survey, and identify their priorities. . Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. jumped from 1.4%
Success
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Most achievers have no trouble codifying clear goals but then let time-sucking “opportunities” creep into calendars. Understand the maker’s vs. manager’s schedule. In 2009, Paul Graham, co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, wrote an essay entitled, Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.
Ideas.Ted
JULY 8, 2021
My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. No company just lopped a day off their calendar. “Instantly, you see happier people,” says Paul McNulty, whose online publishing company adopted this schedule in mid-2020. That’s really great to see.”
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