by Kim Kiser | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion Poll
While curtailing the volume of email that hits your inbox each day is largely out of your control, employing best practices when communicating via email is essential to a productive day. Keeping emails brief, specific, actionable, and timely invites responses from...
by Kim Kiser | Jul 7, 2014 | Opinion Poll
Last month’s poll highlighted handling “meeting overload.” A second drain on a productive day for me can be reading and responding to emails. I could easily spend each day glued to my computer fielding the flaming darts hitting my inbox. If you extract time spent...
by Kim Kiser | Jun 3, 2014 | Opinion Poll
Running an in-house creative team means directing the creative, managing the staff, balancing the budget, providing client service, and attending meetings. Endless meetings. I’m not sure when it happened, but lately my days are spent running frantically from one...
by Kim Kiser | Apr 9, 2014 | Opinion Poll
More and more design publications and organizations are tailoring their messaging and programming to in-house teams. While once a niche audience, now HOW, GD USA and AIGA all sponsor annual design competitions, exclusively for the in-house crowd. Do industry awards...
by Kim Kiser | Mar 10, 2014 | Opinion Poll
I remember when I first graduated with my design degree and set out to find a job. Many companies wouldn’t even see me, saying I didn’t have enough experience. This is, of course, a classic Catch-22 – how do you get experience, if no one will hire you? Now that you...
