Managing Free Agents
Even if you do not invest a lot of time and effort in leading your free agents, you still have to manage them. In fact, the more you back away from leadership, the more time you will probably have to spend on management. If nothing else, you need to find them, then hire or contract […]
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- Feb, 27, 2015
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Feb, 27, 2015
Leading Free Agents
Free agents can play an important role in your company, but they are only helpful if you use them right. One thing to remember is that the leadership style you use with your full-time employees is not going to be appropriate for someone who is with you temporarily, and who you may never meet because […]
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- Feb, 25, 2015
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Employing Free Agents
What role can free agents play in your company? A pretty good one, if you use them right. Free agents are folks who are not employed by your company but instead work for themselves, taking on contracting or subcontracting gigs as the mood (and their rent payment) strikes them. Sometimes they choose to remain fully […]
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- Feb, 23, 2015
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Keeping a Long-Term Focus
When Saturday Night Live started on TV in 1975 the cast members were collectively known as “The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players.” The idea was that they were on late at night on Saturdays because their material was not suitable for the family audiences who tune in from 8pm-11pm (“prime time”) for their television fix. But since then, […]
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- Feb, 20, 2015
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Training and Education
Some leaders say they want to provide training for their employees. Others say they focus on education. Very often, they do not recognize the difference between the two. But once they do, they realize their employees can often benefit from both. Training tends to focus on skills. It is about how to do something correctly, […]
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- Feb, 18, 2015
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