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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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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. As with the rapid rise in remote work accelerated by the pandemic, these visas were spurred on by countries with big tourism economies hoping to make up revenue lost due to COVID-19.

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

Workplace Insight

However, for many investors uncertainties prevail with 44 percent unsure how much funding would be required for retrofitting assets (estimating up to 10 percent of the value of AUM) and 50 percent not clear how these upgrades would be financed. What’s more, they don’t know how or from where these upgrades can be financed. Recommendations 1.

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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. Too often, tasks and projects get put on the back burner and linger without reevaluation. My holds included reminders like lunch, picking up my boys from school, and other reminders.

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

Allwork

About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. Despite this, it was challenging to keep up with the pace of the workload. On our website you can find some video case studies with some of them.

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The Path to Chief of Staff Whitepaper

Admin Awards

We had an extraordinary group of Admin panelists who spoke first-hand about their path to Chief of Staff while offering up useful advice and anecdotes. ” And consider all that you may have to do — and give up — to be great in the role, Warner says. In some cases, the Chief of Staff role may already exist within your company.

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