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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...
How to Recruit (Tactfully) at Creative Industry Events
What’s the best way to recruit — discreetly — at an industry event while respecting the privacy of fellow attendees?...
Be the best boss, by not being a boss at all
"Don't be a boss, be a coach" is one of the best pieces of advice I ever received about managing people. I took that...
Because you can’t afford to make a mistake: 7 ways to evaluate external creative partners.
It seems like internal creative groups are enjoying a resurgence these days, with more companies making the decision...
5 Tips for Team Coaching
From interns to your most experienced team members, everybody can use coaching no matter what their discipline. If you...
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...
Managing Client Expectations
Projects large and small often go one of two ways when served up to the creative team by account folk: “When do you...
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...
Keeping up with complex work in a changing industry
Training and challenging ourselves with new technologies and new projects (within our position if possible, but also...
In-house vs. outside agencies
What can we learn from each other? And how can we better support each other? As long as a distinction is made between...
You Need Some Help. Where Are Your Options?
You lead or work as a member of an in-house creative team. Business is good. You definitely see the need for help in...
“Going In-House” Just Makes Sense
A recent Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) report states that the penetration of in-house agencies has...
Gaining Client Trust
You might assume, as a member of an in-house agency, you might be afforded a measure of trust from your clients that...
What to do when you don’t know what to do.
Here’s a tricky one. A client (or your boss) comes to you asking if you can handle a certain type of work that you’ve...
Why it’s so important to use a creative brief
“This is such a small/simple/basic project, we don’t need a creative brief for this, right? Every day, this question...
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