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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...
5 Tips for Team Coaching

5 Tips for Team Coaching

From interns to your most experienced team members, everybody can use coaching no matter what their discipline. If you have pride in your work, as most people do, improvement is a career-long pursuit. As a team member of various in-house agencies over the years, I...

Working with a Partner Agency

Working with a Partner Agency

For many good reasons, partnering with an outside agency makes all the sense in the world. The most obvious being your team is at or over capacity with current work and a project has come up with a deadline that you know you won’t be able to meet. Or, in trying to...

I Am In-House: Vanessa Dewey

I Am In-House: Vanessa Dewey

Vanessa Dewey is an award-winning Downtown Los Angeles-based designer who champions development and creative endeavors. Prior to her current role at Mattel, Vanessa was an Art Director and worked across numerous IP properties as well as properties for licensors such...

Managing Client Expectations

Just as bad as the creative person who always says “no” or “not possible,” is the creative who always says “yes” to even the most unreasonable or impossible request. Pull a rabbit out of your hat too often, or even when it’s not really needed, and you will have trained your account team to give little thought as to what is a decent amount of time for a job to be done and done well.

Leading a great team

You built a great team, they are producing amazing results, the work and the people get accolades from everyone in the organization…now what?!

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