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Introduction - MicroStart: Finding and Feeding Breakthroughs
UNDP's Special Unit for Microfinance (SUM) commissioned a mid-term evaluation of its MicroStart program to take place in September-October 1999. SUM believed that an evaluation at this time would identify areas for improvement while there was still time to make changes. SUM directed us, as evaluators, to focus on the validity of the assumptions underlying MicroStart and on the processes used to implement it, rather than on the impact of the program.

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Stellar Supervision Enhances Company Productivity
Looking for a framework to use to provide stellar supervision for each of your staff members? Proactive, collaborative supervision is a key to enhancing each staff member's competencies, commitment and optimum personal productivity. It enhances staff loyalty and reduces turnover because staff members feel their career success is a top priority of their leader. Read on to discover the things you can do to help your staff members excel.
Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team
Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find your remote freelance provider fully integrated with your in-house staff, changing the relationship between outsourcing buyer and freelance provider. Here's what we've learned (on the job) when it comes to integrating outsourcing and in-house workteams.
Are you Freelance Ready?
Most freelance assignments start small--non-staff providers are hired to complete specific outsourcing projects. But when these freelance specialists prove to their outsourcing employers that they can be relied upon, there is soon an increased allowance for more remote working hours and the performance of increasingly vital tasks. Soon freelance providers may find themselves fully integrated with the outsourcing organization's in-house staff, thus marking a change in the relationship between outsourcing employer and freelance provider. We've been there--oDesk hires freelance providers to work with our in-house staff on several different outsourcing assignments, and on some projects, one type of worker is virtually indistinguishable from the other.
Why You Should Include Open Source Work in Your Portfolio
Very recently, one of our product architects posted a job opening on our site to find an additional engineer to add to our growing team (in a remote provider capacity). He received inquiries from a number of interested freelance provider candidates and then proceeded to interview to find the top provider for the team. Once he had narrowed the list down to just a few freelance provider candidates, he researched their work history in more detail, finally selecting a particular candidate in India largely based on an example of his work. What it ultimately came down for my co-worker in his freelance selection process was reviewing prior work on open-source projects. Why should you care about open-source work?
What Are You Like at Growing People?
Too many managers are still using 20th century traditions for 21st century staff development. The result? Rapid staff turnover, excessive absenteeism and staff conflicts. We need new ways to look at old problems. People are a part of nature, so what can we learn from growing plants?
Coaching Careless Staff
Managing careless staff can be very frustrating for both the manager and the team particularly if the staff member appears not to care about how their performance is affecting others. Here is how you can use a coaching approach to get staff to focus on fixing the problem themselves.
Social media case study: Butlins
Social media agency FreshNetworks helped family holiday provider Butlins use social media to promote their family friendly holiday options and to advertise their red coat staff auditions
Coaching Passive/Aggressive staff
If you have staff on your team who aren't responding to you it may be because they are getting some benefit from it. These staff are often called Passive Aggressive staff. They may seem quiet perhaps sullen but they can be quite manipulative and quietly aggressive in getting their own way. Here's how a coach might handle them.

The Significance of Your Company Culture
Company culture is the spirit, attitude and character of its people put together. Although products or services are the backbone of business, the working culture of staff and its management matter. A happy staff is a productive staff.
Why \"We\'re the Leading Provider of\" is NOT!
Lead Generation Companies | Why "We're the leading provider of" is a BIG Mistake As an experiment, I did a Google search on "Leading Provider of" Wow! Lots and lots of hits.
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