Title: Managing Your Team

Hi again!

You’ve assembled a team of skilled freelancers and you’re
ready to put them to work.

What’s next?

Teamwork! Your freelancers will only do a great job for you
if you manage them properly and build a cohesive team that
includes you, your full-time employees, and your freelancers.

In this chapter, I’ll explain some of the key strategies
you can use to manage your freelance team members and
maximize productivity.

Communication

The key to managing any team is communication. It’s one
of the most important leadership skills to have. Without
it, your other skills and strategies won’t amount to much. 

With it, you can do anything.

It’s important to set up lines of communication for you
and your team members. Here are a few suggestions that you
may find useful:

* Create expectations for communication by email. 

For example, you might let your team members know that you
expect them to respond within one business day when you
send them an email.
* 
Set up an online messaging board or use a content
management system like Asana to assign work, exchange notes,
and track the progress of each freelancer and their assignments.

* Schedule a weekly conference call or Skype to check in and
make sure that your team members have what they need.

That takes care of the organizational part of communication,
but I also want to talk about the kind of casual communication
that rarely gets discussed.

Look for that tomorrow.
 Until then,


{YOUR NAME HERE}


