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Five Actions To Take Before Your Next Presentation

You’re scheduled for a presentation. Maybe presenting to a few decision-makers, perhaps speaking to a larger audience. Either way, positive actions beforehand can make you a stronger presenter.

Is Your Predecessor Preventing Your Success? 5 Tips For Leaders Starting A New Job.

During your first few days at a new job, you spend plenty of time learning about the business of your new employers, meeting lots of new people, and diving into how things get done currently in your new department. And that’s when you start to learn about how things were before you got there.

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Rebranding a Corporate Law Firm

Longtime friend of InSource, Brandie Knox, who is the principal and creative director of Knox Design Strategy, shared a recent successful case study with us. Knox has an interesting career...

How A Consulting Mindset Will Take Your Department From Order-Takers To Creative Problem-Solving Rock-Stars!

Use elements of a consulting mindset to take your department from order-takers to creative problem-solving rock-stars!

Your Guide to Building the Best Creative Team

Attention employers: Building a great creative team doesn't have to be a challenge. Knowing that the process is part art, part science will keep you on track. I recently spoke at the HOW Design...

Avoid Employee Turnover: How to Tell if You're Losing a Top Performer

Employees who feel underappreciated, underpaid or unchallenged are big flight risks. Absenteeism, social withdrawal, a decline in work habits and a negative attitude are warning signs an...
In-House Perspectives: New York

In-House Perspectives: New York

Building a sense of community among leaders of in-house creative teams matters. That’s why a crowd of more than 65 professionals working in the world of creative services came together for the InSource In-House Perspectives New York (IHPNY) event held on September 21,...

3 Career Paths (Part 2): Agency, Freelance or In-House?

3 Career Paths (Part 2): Agency, Freelance or In-House?

As I mentioned last month, it’s hard to believe I’ve been at this for 25 years. Few people in my network of friends and colleagues have stuck with the same career for so long. Many of my peers who I graduated with from SVA gave up on design a long time ago for...

Demonstrating the value of design in business

Demonstrating the value of design in business

From messaging to visual identity Design is a unifying factor to support marketing and business development efforts. The best way to demonstrate how design drives value for a brand is to point out how creative work touches virtually every aspect of your organization....

3 Career Paths (Part 1): Agency, Freelance or In-House?

It’s hard for me to believe I’ve been at this—being a design professional—for nearly 25 years. I grew up around relatives who worked on Wall Street, in the legal profession, sales or other business pursuits. So I’m fortunate that my parents encouraged my talent and...

I Am In-House: Trish Olives

Trish is the Creative Studio Manager at YETI, the popular Austin-based manufacturer of premium outdoor lifestyle products (think coolers, tumblers and assorted accessories). As a seasoned creative leader, she spends her days working with the absolute most badass creatives and marketers in the outdoor industry, creating idea-driven, on-brand, award-winning work so nobody has to suffer from melted ice ever again. Her work in this field has been recognized by GDUSA Magazine several times over, and she’s been featured as a speaker at the HOW Design Live Conference.

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Paradigm Shift

We are in the middle of a paradigm shift. You might say, "yes, I know" or "which one are you talking about?" We could...

Fun Along the Way

Making work fun…sometimes this seems like an oxymoron, it’s called work for a reason, right?  But we are all familiar...

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