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Can Your Parenting Skills Help You Become a Better Manager?

Success

Managing and parenting are alike in many ways—and you can use your child-raising skills at work to be a better manager. Both managing and parenting are balancing acts. We celebrate what deserves celebrating and discuss how to recover from or better manage what’s gotten us down. At home, we call them highs and lows.

Skills 279
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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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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. Often, soft executive assistant skills are the difference between an average EA and the perfect EA.

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Core Administrative Skills Always Need Improving

Office Dynamics

Now I am going to surprise you by telling you one of the most awesome administrative skills you can work on is being brilliant at the basics. Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. The basics.

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The Most Common Professions of Skilled Freelancers Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

As the study chart below shows, the top three professions for these skilled independent workers are consulting, coaching, and research (17 percent), creative services (17 percent), and information technology (12 percent). Creative services, healthcare and sciences and project management have been fast growing fields for independent workers.

Skills 193
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If You Do Any Project Management, You Need to Know This

On The Job

Great project managers often are described as good communicators, able to delegate tasks and be cool under pressure. But as competition heats up in various industries and the marketplace becomes more globally connected, such qualities won’t be enough to ensure a successful project management career. But in five years?

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How to Encourage Employee Autonomy—and Why That Should Matter to You as a Leader

Success

Then one day, you’re promoted to manager. For instance, you may suddenly feel a desire to over-manage or micromanage your people. The answer lies in a concept that you’re going to hear about again and again as a manager: open communication. As a manager, you should always put a premium on setting expectations.

Mentoring 344