A Joosr Guide to... Agile Talent by Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts

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We live in changeable times, and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the workplace. As the market transforms with startling rapidity, traditional employment models are quickly giving way to a growing freelance economy. But what benefits do outside workers bring to modern leaders and managers-and what challenges, too?

Agile Talent examines the benefits of freelance help, arguing that embracing external experts can greatly strengthen your organization. It also explores the potential obstacles and provides strategies to help you avoid them, ensuring your use of specialist freelancers is efficient, effective, and profitable for you, your workers, and your business.

You will learn:

· Why changing attitudes towards employment mean there's a huge pool of gifted individuals out there who would love to work with you

· How employing freelance workers can make your company more dynamic, flexible, and effective whilst still keeping down costs

· How to select the best freelance talent and ensure they provide the best possible work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joosr
• Release date: Jul 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781785674020

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What’s it about?

As the world changes, so too does the workplace: advances in technology, developments in corporate structuring, and changing ideas about the nature of employment all mean that more and more skilled workers are making their living freelance. But not all companies embrace the opportunities offered by this external, non-permanent workforce, and of those that do, not all of them achieve the transition effectively. This can mean missing out on working with some of the most talented individuals around.

In Agile Talent, Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood make the case for employing temporary externals and offer new approaches and techniques for successfully bringing freelance expertise into your business. They explore the conditions and advances that have helped to transform our attitudes toward work, and outline the key advantages to drawing on this growing pool of flexible, motivated talent. And they don’t sugarcoat it: they know that there are potential challenges to be faced along the way. But they argue that these obstacles are easily overcome and are far outweighed by the benefits. What’s more, they provide strategies that help you ensure that integrating temporary specialists into your existing workforce is smooth and painless.

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