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The Executive's Guide to Top-Down Revenue Forecasting

Aug 19, 2025 By Marilyn In Scoro
Many execs at professional services firms forecast revenue based on specific project data. While this granularity might seem like the best option, there’s actually a better (and easier) way to predict income: Top-down forecasting. A top-down approach gives you the speed and flexibility you need to make strategic decisions without getting lost in the details. Keep reading to learn the basics and how to implement it at your company.
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Workstatus

Managing a 50+ Member Remote Team? See how Workstatus can Help

Aug 19, 2025 By Prerna Aggarwal In WorkStatus
Managing a remote workforce of 50+ employees creates challenges that traditional management approaches simply can’t solve. The most common problems you might be facing: Without proper tools, even experienced leaders find themselves making critical business decisions based on assumptions rather than actual data. This leads to The solution lies in implementing remote team management software that provides detailed insights and automated workflows designed specifically for large-scale operations.
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flowace

How Smart Companies Track Salaried Employees' Hours: Tools & Tips

Aug 19, 2025 By Heera Ravindran In Flowace
Most founders assume time tracking is only for freelancers or hourly staff. But that’s far from the truth. Tracking hours for salaried employees is like tracking your calories. Just as food logs highlight unhealthy eating habits, work hour tracking reveals insights you didn’t know you needed. You discover where projects get stuck, which tasks drain the most energy, and how much of your team’s effort truly matters.
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How to Scale Smarter: Productizing Value with Brian Kessman

Aug 19, 2025 By Scoro In Scoro
When businesses talk about “productizing,” they often picture cookie-cutter scopes and rigid templates. But according to Brian Kessman, that’s missing the point. Brian is the founder of Lodestar Consulting, and he’s spent 25 years helping agencies and consultancies scale without burning out teams or eroding margins. His approach isn’t about productizing services – it’s about productizing value. In this episode of The Handbook: The Operations Podcast, Brian and Harv dig into what that really means, and how it can transform both your client relationships and your bottom line.
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asana

What is resource management? A guide to getting started

Aug 19, 2025 By Julia Martins In Asana
Resource management is the process of planning and scheduling your team’s resources and activities—essentially anything that helps you complete a project. Developing a resource management plan can give you visibility into team member workloads. Learn how to manage resources and improve team performance. Making sure your team doesn’t feel overworked or underutilized is a challenge you’ll often face as a leader. It's easy to lose sight of your team's workload and bandwidth.
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monitask

How Business Process Outsourcing Can Help Your Business Grow

Aug 19, 2025 By Junun Saleh In Monitask
Business process outsourcing BPO is a business practice in which an organization contracts out specific tasks or processes to an external service provider. These tasks or processes can include a wide range of back office or front office functions, such as customer support, data entry, human resources, accounting, and more.
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teamwork

Google Sheets dashboards: How to build them (and when to upgrade)

Aug 18, 2025 By Ben Brigden In Teamwork
I’ve built a lot of dashboards in Google Sheets. Sometimes out of necessity, sometimes because it seemed like the fastest and most convenient option. One time, I needed a quick way to track weekly campaign performance across paid, organic, and email channels. I threw the data into Sheets, built a few charts, and had a working marketing dashboard ready in under an hour. It wasn’t fancy, but it worked.
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CurrentWare

Challenges Of Managing Remote Employees (& How To Overcome Them)

Aug 18, 2025 By CurrentWare In CurrentWare
When managing remote employees you must put in extra effort towards communication to compensate for the lack of face-to-face time and ad-hoc chats. Without clear communication guidelines it’s far too easy for key information to slip through the cracks. To compensate, use a mix of communication platforms, don’t rely solely on email. Use video calls for face-to-face conversations, instant messaging for quick questions, and shared calendars to keep everyone on the same page.
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