Apr 15, 2021

News of 6prog - Issue [mid April]

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Now we have the formailites out of the way > to the content!

TL;DR

offers to join IPSE, team culture; team dynamics offer; and epic posts.

We were also reminded of a key benefit in our contracts this week. Sadly a client I know is ‘locked’ into a poorly performing agency contract. Checkout the image below and compare it to the clause with your agency - don’t get locked in!

Happy to discuss this important point in more detail.

I’ll add the meetings rooms password & my personal booking link at the end.

Onto more exciting news:

National Freelancers Day is coming up soon with IPSE.

If you are thinking of joining IPSE remember to use the code 6prog for a £67 discount.

NFD | National Freelancers Day

Join IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed in London for our annual flagship event, National Freelancers Day 2020, on Thursday 18 June.

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Interesting articles from the week

What are the four principles of change management? - Supply Management

Outlining a clear purpose and providing role models throughout the organisation have been crucial in increasing adoption of procurement technology at Bulgari, a conference was told.

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Postmortem culture: how you can learn from failure

Failures are an inevitable part of innovation and can provide great data to make products, services, and organizations better. Google uses “postmortems” to capture and share the lessons of failure.

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Creating A High-Trust, High-Performance Culture

Building a culture of trust can be a powerful way to improve performance. Neuroscientific research shows that trust reduces social frictions and promotes cooperative behavior among colleagues — and that managers can create high-trust, high-performance teams.

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10 Unique Marketing Strategies to Give Startups a Boost | Startups Magazine

They want to be impressed and have their attention grabbed instead; which goes a lot further than a few social media posts and calling it quits. Rather, it is crucial to constantly reinvent marketing strategies in order to show your consumers that you are still invested in competing for their business.

Here we are going to look through ten unique and creative marketing strategies to boost your business in 2021.

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3 keys to get out of feeling like there’s never enough time and get creative projects done

The author of ‘There is No Right Way to Do This’ says, “In an age of time starvation and scarcity, I choose to believe there is always a way to make something difficult happen.”

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Designing Employee Experiences: How to Operationalize Your EX Strategy

The New Workspace Episode 9 Operationalizing employee experience has always been important. A good employee experience (EX) pushes employees to do their best work, and has a direct impact on your business. In a recent survey by Citrix, 43% of employees su…

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Improving client offers

6prog - The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process

Scale your agile workforce using the fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process

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6prog has a host of extra offers for suppliers listed here. We have, however, not got so many for clients so we have been working with some of our partners to offer something new.

I’m excited to announce Lee Lam adding her name to the list first.

Her Team Dynamics workshop is offered to 6prog clients at 25% off. Whether your team has been together for a while, or is newly formed, getting to know how to work effectively together can be a real game changer.

EXPERIENCE OF MANAGING TEAMS

Too often, we have seen line managers set up to fail as organisations force high performing individuals into management positions, yet leave them ill-prepared, ill-equipped and ill-informed over how to succeed in that function. Left untrained and unsupported, many potentially great line managers are forced to develop their own managerial practices, which are usually based on the good and bad elements of their own line manager’s actions. The only real guidance given is from HR on what they can and cannot do – but all that tells them is how to not get involved in grievance procedures, not how to manage the performance and careers of those trusted to their leadership.

I have experience of managing teams of 2 to 25 employees, and know that it can be a struggle to find that balance between doing ‘your own work’ and helping those in your team do their best work. As a member of teams, I have experienced some great and some not so great managerial styles – I have been the one put on the pedestal, as well as the one intentionally ignored.

WOULD YOU BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM?

Click here to connect with Lee.

Spoiler alert [more offers to be announced soon]