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Assemble teams
The reason why clients hire agencies rather than just freelancers is because they want ready-formed, highly-effective multi-disciplinary teams.
If clients quickly get the sense your team contains the right mix of skills and works well together, then they will relax and let you do your work — and even lead the client. Otherwise, they’ll feel they have to micro-manage, and the work becomes high-friction.
And the prospect of working in great teams is one of the things that attracts the best talent.
That means you need to form teams, and ensure their health and effectiveness, at multiple levels: