Comments on: Teamwork for Independent Web Contractors

By: Deshawn

Deshawn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:55:42 +0000

Very nice!

I’d like to share a wisdom nugget from one business book summary I recently received from http://www.bizsum.com.

“Studies have discovered that cohesiveness is directly related to cooperation. When all members of a group cooperate in order for that group to succeed at any task or goal, the cohesiveness of that team can be said to be extremely high. As a matter of fact, the ability to form close friendships at one’s workplace is an excellent sign that the workplace is a productive one.”

By: Aditya Gholap

Aditya Gholap — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:22:29 +0000

When Telly Chakkar started, a lot of work used to get done via freelancers. So to manage them and still keep my business in sync with everything i need something that gave me a bird eye view of the business and a feeling of control. So i started using Deskaway when they started. It helped me know what tasks were going where, what was taking up more of my time and it helped me gain main control over the free lancers working with me. They too started collaborating and sharing more. Now some of them are full time workers.

I don’t think that each contractor needs to be kept in the dark – its an easy way of ignoring hard facts – a product or a service is an amalgamation of a couple of tightly bound cohesive units. Tools such as DeskAway really help make a couple of freelancers not knowing each other – really tightly knit in terms of their work. And “noise” is not generated because things are pretty neatly laid out (or atleast they can be) and more often than not, minimal explanation is required. Thats the real worth of a powerful collaboration tool – it helps make the product better because of more cohesion. And then if concerns come from contractors – then that noise should be taken positively. Noone likes to be kept in the dark.

By: Sal

Sal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:14:38 +0000

Working in a team is great so that you can share information and expertise. Sure, you can use online tools but they will only work if the team members are committed to sharing stuff within them. Ultimately, it all depends on much each team member is "at stake". Sahil Founder, DeskAway

By: virtualkathy

virtualkathy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:44:43 +0000

When working with a team I find that it is absolutely essential to have a team project manager, use project management software, a team charter and a team flow chart. Each team member should report to the project manager and he/she in turn should report to the client.

It’s all in the organization.

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