by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 23, 2021 | This Week In Business
Company Retreats For Small Teams: The What, Why, and How We Do It
If you think of singing ‘Kumbaya’ around a campfire or walking across hot coals when you think of company retreats, think again. You can mix business and fun, even if you have a small team by getting everyone together in a ‘room’. This video is about how to hold a company retreat, even if you have a small team.
Additional Resources:
Sample Retreat Agenda
Another one of our blogs about the subject: https://breakingeveninc.com/bec-retreat-how-what-why/
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by Nicole Ouellette | Mar 16, 2021 | This Week In Business
Request For Proposals (RFPs) are a job hazard for any of us service providers. This is a video of why I hate RFPs and, if you absolutely have to do one or really want to anyway, how to set your new contractor up for success on the internet project.
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 28, 2016 | Tech
I was approached recently by a non-profit about volunteer management. This seems like something you should be able to do online, right? (Or maybe that’s just how I think.) If we break down the volunteer management process, we can see it comprises a few things....
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 11, 2013 | This Week In Business
It seems like it would be pretty easy to run a two person business with a few subcontractors, right? Well increasingly, it wasn’t easy. Emails get lost or misfiled… that and I can’t easily look at my email and know a project status if Alice is...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 23, 2010 | This Week In Business
There are some weeks where it seems that you get a lot done but it all seems like small and unrelated things keep coming up for you to deal with? That was this week at Breaking Even Communications. Good news is it was all pretty manageable.
Here are a few things that happened this week:
Forgetting to do something finally made me try Basecamp project management software.
Project management is one of those things you always mean to do, like cleaning your bathtub. All it takes is one metaphorical slip to finally make you get on your hands and knees. Yup, I finally forgot to do something so it was finally time to manage the details of these different projects at BEC.
I’ve tried a few different free or cheap project management software options only to find something missing. I finally decided to try out Basecamp, which is one of if not the most popular project management software online that will end up costing me around $50 a month if I decide I like it.
