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Epic12 Creative Marathon Recap

January 23, 2012 — Leave a comment

Sometimes creating becomes boring, mundane, micromanaged, routine and exhausting. Interestingly, creatives can be some of the most predictable people in the workplace. Unfortunately too many of us go through a year doing the same things day in and day out.  That’s one of the reasons why we came up with Epic10.  We saw it as a way to get designers together for a day and do something that would be memorable (and productive) for everyone.  In the process it’s great to see people connect, share resources, and stretch one another.  In most cases we walk away refreshed and energized, even though we’ve just designed for 10 hours straight. Continue Reading…

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Keeping Creatives Organized

July 26, 2011 — Leave a comment

How do you keep a creative team organized?

Let’s face it, most creatives are not by nature very organized.  As a leader one of your roles will be to help guide the chaos and messiness that comes with every creative team.  You have to keep in mind that you’re not just creating to create, but you’re creating to move an organization forward.  Your organization needs the creative team to be organized in order to maximize the creative impact.

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Tips For Keeping Your Creative Sanity

April 28, 2011 — Leave a comment

If your a creative in a growing organization then you’re in a constant battle to maintain your sanity and your creative energy.  If that’s you then I’m curious what you’re currently doing to manage the creative expectations of those in your organization.    We’ve all probably been to workshops and sessions on how to implement processes, guides, procedures, and systems to help in this area.  And those things are REALLY needed.  But I’m specifically interested in the tips and tricks you use to keep sane.  These are the things that never make it to the manuals (and probably for good reason.)  Let me share some of the things I’ve done over the years:

  • Be positive, but put the ball back in their court. Everyone has a great idea, and people love to pitch those to creatives and then move on.  Then a month later you get thrown under the bus when nothing has happened.  When people have these “great ideas” be positive but also have an action step that you ask of them to start the process.  Normally, that’s when you point them to the entry point of your system.  This will probably weed out about 50% of those “great” hallway ideas and it will allow you to not be the person who always walks around saying no. Continue Reading…
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