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Five Actions To Take Before Your Next Presentation

You’re scheduled for a presentation. Maybe presenting to a few decision-makers, perhaps speaking to a larger audience. Either way, positive actions beforehand can make you a stronger presenter.

Is Your Predecessor Preventing Your Success? 5 Tips For Leaders Starting A New Job.

During your first few days at a new job, you spend plenty of time learning about the business of your new employers, meeting lots of new people, and diving into how things get done currently in your new department. And that’s when you start to learn about how things were before you got there.

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Rebranding a Corporate Law Firm

Longtime friend of InSource, Brandie Knox, who is the principal and creative director of Knox Design Strategy, shared a recent successful case study with us. Knox has an interesting career story. Prior to running her own design firm, she led an in-house design team at...

How A Consulting Mindset Will Take Your Department From Order-Takers To Creative Problem-Solving Rock-Stars!

Use elements of a consulting mindset to take your department from order-takers to creative problem-solving rock-stars!

Your Guide to Building the Best Creative Team

Attention employers: Building a great creative team doesn't have to be a challenge. Knowing that the process is part art, part science will keep you on track. I recently spoke at the HOW Design Live Conference about top trends impacting creative teams, including...

Avoid Employee Turnover: How to Tell if You're Losing a Top Performer

Employees who feel underappreciated, underpaid or unchallenged are big flight risks. Absenteeism, social withdrawal, a decline in work habits and a negative attitude are warning signs an employee is considering leaving. Reviewing compensation, perks and benefits is a...

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The 2021 Creative Management Survey is now open!

InSource is excited to announce that the 2021 Creative Management Survey is now open! This is our fourth year partnering with inMotionNow to conduct the survey and produce the report, which highlights the most pressing challenges facing modern creative teams, and...

2020 In-House Creative Management Survey is now open!

InSource is excited to announce the 2020 In-House Creative Management Survey is now open! This is our third year partnering with inMotionNow to conduct the survey and produce the report, highlighting the most pressing challenges facing modern creative teams, and...

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Five Actions To Take Before Your Next Presentation

You're scheduled for a presentation. Maybe presenting to a few decision-makers, perhaps speaking to a larger audience. Either way, positive actions beforehand can make you a stronger presenter. Here are five suggestions: 1. Live with your audience Once you commit to a...

Is Your Predecessor Preventing Your Success? 5 Tips For Leaders Starting A New Job.

Ah, the excitement of starting a new job! After months of applications and many rounds of interviews, the offer to build, lead and grow a new team finally comes through. You are excited to be moving upward in your career, or maybe just on to a new challenge where all...

Rebranding a Corporate Law Firm

Longtime friend of InSource, Brandie Knox, who is the principal and creative director of Knox Design Strategy, shared a recent successful case study with us. Knox has an interesting career story. Prior to running her own design firm, she led an in-house design team at...

How A Consulting Mindset Will Take Your Department From Order-Takers To Creative Problem-Solving Rock-Stars!

I've written about some lessons learned while working in-house that made me a better consultant and business owner. Now, I'm turning the tables and following up with some ideas for what I think helped shape my success when I was an in-house, corporate, creative. I...

2020 In-House Creative Management Report

The 2020 In-House Creative Management Report from In-Source and inMotionNow is here! Download your copy of the report to learn about the top challenges and opportunities facing in-house creative teams in 2020! Did you know that 89% of survey respondents from the 2019...

Lead with inspiration—A few ideas on inspiring creative teams

The stereotypes associated with in-house creative groups are abundant. Most are more annoying than true. But hold on, there’s one that may have a touch of truth behind it. And some of the most cherished benefits of landing an in-house gig may be the key cause of it....

Offshoring Creative Production: 11 Best Practices

rule of thumb: “Offshoring projects will cost 4 times less but take twice as long to complete.” The notion of saving up to 70% of labor costs can be very enticing, especially in tight economic times. However, offshoring can be a daunting endeavor and one that can almost as easily waste money as save it.

Top Ten Characteristics of Project Managers

Good project managers are hard enough to find, and great project managers are rarer still. Thanks to Andy Crowe (Alpha Project Managers), though, we now have a peek inside the top 2% of project managers, based on a study of 5,000 of them as rated by their peers/clients. Not surprisingly, great project management requires a lot more than the ability to move a milestone.
Here are the top ten traits of project managers who are really making ideas happen:

Creative Pros Job Search Tips

With the creative job market opening up and graduates entering the workforce, I thought I would spend a little time talking about a variety of steps you can take to land a job at a creative agency or as an in-house creative professional. The advice below is peppered with my own experience, as well as input from a variety of agencies, including AKQA, JESS3, Code & Theory, and Mekanism.

Tackling Your Process and Technology Projects

Many creative organizations recognize that they have room for improvement. This could mean better alignment within the organization, improving existing processes or implementing technology that can help manage the work. But often nothing gets done, because the next step requires time and effort… and those are in short supply. So, what options are available to creative leaders to address process and technology initiatives?

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