How to Scale Management and Leadership in Your Company
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We just finished a fun project with a client creating a Management and Leadership Style Guide.
This is a small business that’s making its way to midsize. They have a very clear vision, revenue, creative, talent, and financial goals.
Like many other businesses that are working to scale, they use a younger, less-experienced workforce. Their talent is straight out of school or has just a few years of experience. Most have never been managers. The partners of this company wanted to guide the development of their new managers in a way that’s meaningful both to them and to the staff they oversee. Read more…
10 Years, People! A LOT Happens in 10 Years
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As I’m coming across my 10-year anniversary this month, I’ve been reflecting on the immense amount I’ve learned about myself, about business, and about humans.
Here are just a few things I wanted to share … Read more…
Mid-Career Check-in: How to Figure Out Your Next Steps
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Here are some ways to explore what’s next. Read more…
Questions To Help You Troubleshoot Team Issues
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With the fast pace and client-centric focus in creative environments, it can be hard to pause for a second to check in on how your team is working. Before you realize it, dynamics take root that can damage your productivity and your entire work culture.
When you know that something needs to change on your team, but you can’t quite pinpoint the problem, ask yourself these questions to help identify your issues and set a course of action.
Career Pathing: A Blueprint for Developing Leaders
Posted onWhether you call it career design, career mapping, role planning, or professional development, it is essential to map out how your people can gain the skills, experience, and expertise to grow toward a particular role, responsibility, or outcome. We call it Career Pathing.
Career Pathing for Individuals
Posted onAre you unclear about the direction of your career and current job role — and do you expect your boss to figure that out for you?
If so, I have a different perspective to share. Let me show you how to take your future into your own hands through Career Pathing. Read more…
Is It Time to Hire a Director of Culture?
Posted onThe job title “director of culture” is relatively new within the past five or so years. But I’m seeing more and more smaller to mid-size, entrepreneurial companies creating this role within their organizations.
As we discussed last month , culture – the process of how work gets done – is happening all the time. Read more…
Our South by Southwest Recommendations
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Every spring, the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals fill our home city of Austin, Texas, with big ideas – not to mention beer and barbecue.
With scores of sessions on an array of topics, the SXSW schedule can be kind of overwhelming. So we put together a list of recommendations to make your SXSW planning easier. Read more…
4 Questions to Grow a Dynamic Culture
Posted onWhen was the last time you wanted to stay in a job where you weren’t being challenged or using your talents? Where you knew exactly what to expect every day? Where there were no surprises and you knew you would have the same role in five or 10 years that you have today?
That might work for some people. But it doesn’t work for Creative Executives. Read more…
10 Things to Think About Before You Get Work-Married
Posted onI was recently asked for insights on what people should think about before becoming business partners.
Partnership is marriage. Period. When it’s great, it’s great, and when it’s challenging…you have to dig in. Partnership is being legally entwined with someone else (or multiple people), for better or worse. Read more…
Hacks to Help You Work Life Better in 2017
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The hangover of transitioning back into work is slowly drifting away, and I hope this finds you well and excited about what you are working on. If not, here are some tips and tools to manage your energy today and all year long. Read more…
Why You Should Time Travel
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A milestone birthday mixed with a longer work engagement left me needing some introspection and reflection. As a coach, I often guide people in focusing on where they want to be in the future. But these last few months I’ve taken a new approach – looking at my past to get clear on the now. Read more…
Money and The Creative Professional
Posted onI recently sat down with Jasmine Holan of Veriditas Money Management to chat about her philosophies around wealth and the creative professional.
My husband and I found out about Jasmine and sought her out as a way to help us save for having a baby. If you’re self-employed, two months off with baby = need for savings! While Jasmine is not a financial planner or CPA, she anchors everything she does in numbers. Within the first six months of working with her, Read more…
SXSW 2016: Sessions for The Creative Executive
Posted onOverwhelmed by the agenda at this year’s SXSW? Since we’re all about cultivating creative leadership at The Creative Executive, we’ll help you narrow it down.
Is your new boss messing with your mojo?
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I’ve had several clients this past year that have had new bosses enter the picture – sometimes at the most unexpected and inconvenient times. One even had this happen within just weeks of joining a new company!
A new leader can bring about excitement, fear, and a whole lot of uncertainty.
For some, uncertainty is invigorating and for others, it’s a fear trigger.
We want to make sure that fear around uncertainty doesn’t get in the way of you and your potential.
What’s Your Superpower?
Posted onWhat do you love? What makes you smile? What interests you? What are you good at? Your superpower lies at the intersection of the answer to these questions.
Free New Year’s Giveaways!
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Did we get your attention?
We believe that great Creative Executives are fantastic leaders and even better learners. Get a leg-up at the beginning of the year and discover some new things about yourself with some of our favorite free tools.
May these resources keep you inspired, aware, and on a productive, creative path.
Enjoy! Read more…
Did You Build This Ship to Wreck?
Posted onFlorence and the Machine inspired our post this month. For us, this song encapsulates what the New Year symbolizes – a time to plan, set intentions, chart a course, and set sail! Moreover, like any effort that requires planning and forethought, you don’t want to sabotage the delicate balance by taking on too much or failing to map your journey. Here are simple things you can do this month to keep your ship sailing in smooth waters all year long.
What I Learned From Our C/E Immersion Weekend
Posted onAs I was wrapping up our Creative Executive Immersion experience, I found myself at a loss for words. I was having a really hard time articulating my thoughts to the group because I was so blown away by their courage.
In the coaching world, the word courage gets thrown around like Snickers on Halloween, so it can often sound trite or superficial. But talking about courage and actually experiencing it are two very different things. During the Immersion weekend, I was witness to the depth and meaning of the word.