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The latest News and Information on Project Management, Methodologies, Productivity and Tools.

Offshoring vs Outsourcing

There are a lot of talks these days about outsourcing and offshoring, especially since both can seem the same, but they hold a few differences from each other. Both outsourcing and offshoring have their pros and cons, and it can be difficult to decide which the better option for your company is. In this blog post, we will explore the differences between outsourcing and offshoring, and help you decide which the best choice for your business is. Stay tuned!

How to Manage Employee Workload

How can you manage employees and their work time when there is a need to handle a heavy workload? This is a question that many business owners struggle with. It can be difficult to know how to work around the management of employee workload, and how to best prioritize and organize tasks in a way that makes the most sense for everyone. In this blog post, we will discuss some tips for employee management, time, and resources.

Accountability and Responsibility in the Workplace

As an employer, it is your responsibility to create an environment that promotes employee engagement and job satisfaction. One of the key components to achieve it is ensuring that your employees are responsible and feel a sense of accountability for their work, without hindering the balance of their personal life. Establishing clear expectations and leading by example can help foster workplace accountability.

Overworking and Burnout

Most people would like to think that they can work all the time and never get overworked or burned out, but is it really? Working too much can lead to overwork, exhaustion, and even burnout. Many people don’t understand how overworked they may be until it is too late. The “too late” involves fatigue, exhaustion, and some other serious health problems. Since this sounds important, how do you know if you’re overworked? And more importantly, what can you do about it?

Story Points or Hours: How IT Project Managers Can Choose The Best Estimation Method

Let’s discuss the age-old debate between two popular estimation methods in IT project management – story points or hours. As every project manager knows, accurately estimating time and effort is crucial for ensuring the successful completion of a project. But with various approaches available, finding the right method that aligns with your team’s needs can be daunting. Fret no more!

Untapped Potential in BPO Influencer and Affiliate Marketing

Liam Martin engages with Cody Barton, the founder of StartVirtual, a company specializing in virtual assistance services within the real estate industry. They explore StartVirtual's innovative strategy, utilizing influencers and affiliate marketing to bolster their growth. By implementing a performance-based model, influencers and affiliates are incentivized through rewards for referring customers who turn into paying clients. Furthermore, Start Virtual facilitates their promotion efforts by providing them with essential support and resources.

Self-service task creation helps employees meet unique client needs: Self-Assigned Tasks are here!

One of the most obviously useful reasons to adopt Time Doctor is how we make it simple to track and analyze the time your team dedicates to various projects, clients and tasks. Without the need for separate project management tools, this makes it possible to understand workloads, accurately bill clients and correctly pay employees/contractors. This incredibly valuable connection between time, tasks and invoicing/payments does require some work on the back-end.

7 powerful project management tools for ad agencies

Simon Severino, a business strategy coach, has a 90-day plan for when she coaches teams on project management: “What we do in 90 days is — month one, we free up 10 to 14 hours of their time by better organizing, better processes.” This is the power of project management for ad agencies. Done right (and using the right tools), your agency can streamline processes to deliver high quality deliverables in less time. But what do the “right tools” look like?

How to Improve Accountability in the Workplace

As employee accountability becomes increasingly important in the workplace, organizations seek to cultivate a positive company culture that encourages responsibility and ownership. In a company, accountability is not limited to individual employees but extends to departments and the organization as a team as well.

X Habits of Successful People

At some point, we look up at Oprah Winfrey or Elon Musk and we ask ourselves, how do they do it? How do they manage to build that level of success? Is it their natural talent, or is it something that they learn along the way? Most people would say that success is a combination of both. And while there are many habits of successful people that you could focus on, we have narrowed it down to the most important ones. In this blog post, we will discuss these habits and how you can implement them in your life!