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Want Your Team to Act With Integrity? Create a Social Contract.

June 29, 2016 by Becca Vaclavik Leave a Comment

Want Your Team to Act With Integrity? Create a Social Contract.

Our business is more than just deliverables and deadlines. See what commitments we've made to ourselves and our clients in our new Social Contract.

Filed Under: Freelance Work, Small Business Tagged With: becca vaclavik, business, communication, community building, core values, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, Don't Panic Mgmt, employee happiness, employee relationships, Leadership, social contract

How to Scale Communications Within Your Growing Team

June 8, 2016 by DPM Team Leave a Comment

How to Scale Communications Within Your Growing Team

How do you know when you’ve outgrown your team’s communication style, and how do you scale those methods while hanging onto what was already working?

Filed Under: Small Business Tagged With: business communication, communication, distributed team communication, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, entrepreneurship, internal communication, reagan herr, remote work, small business, small business growth, team communication

Business, Boats, and Big Announcements

March 30, 2016 by Jess Tyson 6 Comments

Business, Boats, and Big Announcements

Several months ago, one of our team members shared a metaphor that seemed to perfectly fit how I was feeling about the business. Maybe you’ve heard it before–it’s about boats. And I've been thinking Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work, Small Business Tagged With: becca vaclavik, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, freelance work, jaime hanson, jenn hines, jess ostroff, marketing, shannon wurthman, VA, virtual assistant

Winter Wellness When You Work from Home

February 19, 2016 by Lee LeBreton Leave a Comment

Winter Wellness When You Work from Home

We all know working from home requires discipline. When I first joined Don’t Panic Mgmt, I thought that discipline pertained only to things like deadlines and time management. Boy, was I Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work Tagged With: cold weather, depression, distributed teams, distributed work environment, don't panic, don't panic management, elise lebreton, freelance work, health and wellness, seasonal affected depression, virtual assistant, virtual teams, virtual work, virtual work environment, wellness, winter, winter weather, winter wellness, work from home, work from home jobs, working from home

How to Communicate Effectively With Your Freelance Team

December 16, 2015 by Lee LeBreton Leave a Comment

How to Communicate Effectively With Your Freelance Team

My first few weeks as a remote worker were a revelation. Suddenly, there was no rush-hour commute, and no trudging through the snow to the train before sunrise. I could spend extra time over the Read More

Filed Under: Small Business Tagged With: communication, communication for distributed teams, communication tools, distributed team, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, elise lebreton, freelance, freelance team, freelance teams, freelance work, sococo, tools for distributed teams, virtual communication tools, virtual teams, virtual work, work from home, workplace communication

How Virtual Work Simplifies Life’s Biggest Transitions

December 11, 2015 by Becca Vaclavik Leave a Comment

How Virtual Work Simplifies Life’s Biggest Transitions

I lived in New York for four years, first in Queens with the best roommates a poor, single girl could ask for, and later in Brooklyn with my husband, Austin. As most of our team members can attest, Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work Tagged With: distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, moving, moving cross-country, transitions, traveling, virtual work, working from home, working virtually

How to Plan Ahead for the Holidays With Your Virtual Team

December 9, 2015 by Jenn Hines Leave a Comment

How to Plan Ahead for the Holidays With Your Virtual Team

If you’re anything like us, you’re busy decking those halls, checking your list twice, and picking out just the right tree for Santa to drop a few goodies under weeks before Rudolph is hitched to the Read More

Filed Under: Small Business Tagged With: christmas, distributed teams, distributed work environments, don't panic, don't panic management, hanukkah, holiday planning, holidays, kwanzaa, planning for holidays, vacation planning, virtual teams, virtual work, work from home, working ahead, working from home

Balancing Work and Family at the Busiest Time of the Year

December 4, 2015 by Jaime Hanson 2 Comments

Balancing Work and Family at the Busiest Time of the Year

Welcome to the most stressful chaotic wonderful time of the year! Don't get me wrong, friends. I love this time of the year. I love the decorations, the traditions, the spirit of giving and Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work, Productivity, Work At Home Moms Tagged With: christmas, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, hanukkah, holiday planning, holidays, kwanzaa, virtual teams, work life balance, working families, working parents

5 Ways to Train Yourself for Virtual Work

November 18, 2015 by Tricia Keels Leave a Comment

Within seven days of college graduation, I moved to Chicago and was sitting at my desk in an advertising agency on the first day of my new career. As the work began, I learned two things quickly; my Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work Tagged With: distributed team, distributed teams, flexible careers, flexible jobs, freelance jobs, freelance work, how to work from home, learn to be a VA, learn to be a virtual assistant, VA, VA training, virtual assistant, virtual assistant training, virtual training, virtual work, work from home jobs

How Differently Abled Individuals Benefit From Virtual Work

November 6, 2015 by DPM Team Leave a Comment

I've had a pretty wide range of jobs in my life—nannying, customer service, marketing at a startup company, and being a tour guide to name a few. But after a few months on board with the Don't Panic Read More

Filed Under: Freelance Work Tagged With: autism, autism spectrum, deaf, deafness, differently abled, differing needs, disabilities, disability, distributed teams, don't panic, don't panic management, hearing loss, jobs for individuals with autism, jobs for physically disabled individuals, physical challenges, physical disabilities, profound hearing loss, remote work, special needs, telecommuting, virtual work, working from home, working remotely, working virtually

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