Serena Estrella
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Five Principles For Designing Your Perfect Home Office
Many of us couldn’t care less about what our office desks are made of or the color of our swivel chair prior to the pandemic. But now that we’re all stuck working at home, we’re bombarded with ads and articles for sprucing up our home office. While it can seem superficial, I can’t overemphasise the…
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Five Reasons Why Virtual Conferences Are Here to Stay
The best organisational and business leaders learn from other people’s successes and failures. It’s primarily the reason why business executives and world leaders travel overseas to attend conferences and networking events. Fruitful collaborations are the result of brilliant minds learning from each other through panel discussions and open forums. And if you’re a business owner,…
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Five Ways You Can Grow Professionally While Working From Home
Remote work can be demanding and can even feel repetitive. I mean, who doesn’t get tired of constant video calls? Despite its convenience and flexibility, there are days when we all want a change of scenery from the WFH lifestyle. Heck, some of us might actually miss the adrenaline rush from commuting, urgent meetings, and…
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Five Ways Parents Can Effectively Manage Working From Home
Raising children can take monumental effort, time, and resources. Aside from providing for your children’s basic needs, you also need to be there for special occasions and important milestones. If you’re a working parent, deadlines and obligations at the office can sometimes clash with your parenting duties. However, since the global pandemic has forced most…
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Three Best Practices You Can Apply to Your Remote Marketing Team
Managing different teams or departments can be really challenging. As a business owner, you probably have to wear different hats when doing so. Throw in a distributed team into the mix, and things can get even more complicated. Marketing is one of the departments that’s most suitable for a remote working set-up, however. And having…
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Five Factors To Consider When Selecting An Outsourcing Vendor
There are many reasons why you should outsource right now. Globalisation has made it easier for any company with the right products and/or services to scale their business much more quickly….provided that they have a strong team behind them. Choosing your remote team’s members can be an arduous task. You can hire directly through several…
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Debunking Five Common Misconceptions About Remote Teams
Many business owners were skeptical about remote teams. I mean, how can you measure the productivity of your employees when you can’t even see them? How do you ensure that they’re actually doing the work? Then 2020 happened, and we had no choice. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced the majority of us to work at…
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Some Remote Workers Are Uncomfortable About Returning to the Office. Here’s Why.
A little more than a year ago, we were flying off for vacations and conferences in different parts of the world. And then COVID-19 happened, everything changed. To say that we were unprepared is an understatement. With much of the world on lockdown, we scrambled to adjust to the New Normal. We relied heavily on…
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Five Common Mistakes AU Entrepreneurs Make When Hiring a VA
Having a virtual assistant can change your life for the better. The benefits range from cost savings to more time for the things that matter to you. However, hiring and working with a VA does come with a learning curve. AU entrepreneurs who don’t make allowances for such tend to revert to their default arrangement…
