My wife works for a company which provides consulting and evaluation services to states and the federal government. Project budgets are fixed and every employee's time must be accounted for precisely. My wife's time is expensive.
What this means it that there are many project meetings to which she is deliberately not invited b/c her time is too expensive to be spent in a meeting. Someone else will summarize the key action items for her afterwards in an email or a five minute call. She is rarely, if ever, in an interminable, useless meeting b/c that costs her firm too much money.
This is not applicable to every business context: fixed budgets and a notion of exactly how much each employee's time costs are probably both crucial.
But if <insert your firm's name here> could implement this, think of the time you might save to do valuable work!
Multiple IC's brought together in a meeting, to prepare for the meeting with the contractor, "to avoid wasting the contractor's expensive time." Writing and reviewing a statement of work for the contractor in excruciating detail, when an IC doing the same work would just figure out what was needed.
I made a mental note of what skills were so much more valuable than mine. Now I have those skills.
That's pretty intense. I'm a contractor and my clients have all been happy with my ability to work independently - they give me goals and I figure out how to meet them. That being said, I only work in high-trust environments and generally get word-of-mouth referrals for contracts.
A long time ago when I was freelancing (as a student, writing software) the company I had been working with for a whiole suddenly decided to not let me write up hours for meetings that were basically requirements/planning because they wanted to treat it like a pitch or informal business meeting or whatever (media agency). That's when I wrapped up the month and never worked with them again.
My wife works for a company which provides consulting and evaluation services to states and the federal government. Project budgets are fixed and every employee's time must be accounted for precisely. My wife's time is expensive.
What this means it that there are many project meetings to which she is deliberately not invited b/c her time is too expensive to be spent in a meeting. Someone else will summarize the key action items for her afterwards in an email or a five minute call. She is rarely, if ever, in an interminable, useless meeting b/c that costs her firm too much money.
This is not applicable to every business context: fixed budgets and a notion of exactly how much each employee's time costs are probably both crucial.
But if <insert your firm's name here> could implement this, think of the time you might save to do valuable work!