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Design Management: The Process & Business of Design
Design industry veterans and respected business consultants will help you learn how to successfully manage a team of creatives, become an effective business leader, encourage collaboration and develop a positive culture for your design business or in-house design team. Whether you are new to the management game or have been at it for awhile, improving your management style can only make for a better workplace environment. Find tips and techniques from the pros here along with stories of success.
48 Things Every Good Boss Needs to Know
David C. Baker shares 48 tips on how to be a good manager to the members of your creative team. Making a difference is more than taking on a social issue, it’s about managing your employees well.
How to Deal With a Bad Boss
Following are three of the most common types of bad managers along with strategies for how to deal with a bad boss.
The Impact that Comes with Control in a Marketing Firm
How do you get (money and) impact in a client relationship, consistently, month after month? It doesn’t happen without some measure of control in the client relationship. If you’re an order-taker (that’s the opposite end of the spectrum), you’re not an expert, and your recommendations are not considered as seriously as they could be.
The Advantages of Being a Small Design Firm
What better time to point out the advantages of being a small design firm than when the industry is experiencing a contraction. All the more so since we have this strange obsession with growth, captured in phrases like “if you aren’t growing, you’re dying.” You can’t fit deep thinking on a bumper sticker, and that looks like a bumper sticker to me.
In-House Designers: 37 Ways to Get Fired
Here, Andy Epstein, author of “The Corporate Creative,” offers a tongue-in-cheek list of ways to get fired in the hopes that you’ll not try them.
Categories: Design Management: The Process & Business of Design, Featured, HOW Books: Exclusive Excerpts & Design Book Reviews, HOW September 2012, In-House Design: Careers & Advice, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: career tips, corporate creative, in-house department, in-house designer
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6 Tips for Designers Working Remotely
Today, it’s not uncommon for telecommuter team members to be spread out across the globe. Consider these tips for managing remote working relationships.
Categories: Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Design Careers: Industry Advice & Job Search Tips, Design Management: The Process & Business of Design, Featured, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: remote worker, remote working, team morale, telecommuter, virtual meetings, working remotely
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3 Fun Team-Building Tips
Following are 3 team-building tips to set the tone for lively, playful engagement during design team-building gatherings.
The Keys to Design Business Success: Belief, Opportunity, Capacity
The path to success in your design business involves belief, opportunity and capacity. The end goal isn’t in sheer size, but in profitability and impact.
3 Business Tips for When You Have More Time Than Money
When your graphic design business is generating more money than time, you feel relaxed. But when business has been slow, learn how to make your design studio stronger.
Design Management: Are You Sucking the Life out of Morale?
Managing creatives is challenging, especially when companies are accustomed to doing more with less and workplace morale is suffering. Is your management style also sucking the life out of morale? Find out.
