Category: Culture
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The Two-Week Rule: A Blueprint for Remarkable Success in Business
Success in business is a result of consistent effort and persistence. However, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the daily grind and lose sight of long-term goals. The two-week rule is a powerful technique that can help you stay on track and achieve remarkable success in your business.
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Reigniting Passion and Motivation in Good Employees
Good employees are a valuable asset to any organization, and it can be disheartening when they stop caring about their work. But why does this happen? What causes a good employee who was once dedicated and motivated to become disengaged and uninterested in their job?
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Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Right Creative Agency
Working with the right design agency can help your business grow and reach new clients. You’ll have access to vetted experts that have a lot of industry experience. With their help, you can impress your customers, generate leads and also present your business in a more professional manner. Which does bring the question, how can…
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Advocating Design in Your Organization: Why and How to Do It
Design has the power to drive business success and innovation, yet many designers struggle to advocate for their work within their organizations. Whether it’s a lack of understanding or appreciation for the value of design, competing priorities, or limited resources, these challenges can make it difficult for designers to make the case for their work…
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It’s Time to Stop Rewarding Toxic Rockstars
While they may be highly skilled and talented at their jobs, toxic rockstars can have a damaging impact on the overall work environment. These employees may exhibit disruptive or difficult behavior, and may prioritize their own success over the success of the team or the organization.
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Battling Burnout: How to Identify It on Your Design Team
Design teams can have many challenges, and even the best managers make mistakes too. These common problems may include: not addressing the isolation felt by any of the team members, overlooking an individual’s development, a lack of vision, not fully motivating team members, lack of a feedback process and more. There are many more examples…
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The 5 Key Traits of Effective Design Leadership
The world of Design has truly evolved in the past few decades. Design teams are called to create projects in a much shorter timeframe than before and the expectations that the clients have are often high. Demanding clients will often ask a lot from your Design team so it is crucial to have good design…
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How to Run a Lean Business on Slack Using Freelancers
If you are running a lean business, doing so using predominantly Slack freelancers can help you solve some of the most common problems faced by startups in their growing stage. Slack can allow you to gather all of your resources, and to benefit from being able to use the different skills of the different personnel…
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10 Proven Tips to Motivate Your Design Team and Boost Their Productivity
Design is a challenging task that requires creativity, critical thinking, and precision. As a design team manager, it is your responsibility to ensure that your team is productive and motivated to deliver the best results Even if you have the best design team in the world, we’re only human and they can easily lose their…
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There’s Nothing Wrong with Being the Nice Boss
For many years, the conventional managerial method was to be strict and harsh with employees. The popular belief was that a boss should be firm and demanding in order to get the best results from their team.