There’s comfort in routine and certainty. But life lately has felt anything but normal. With COVID-19, you may find you’re grappling with new struggles and emotions. How do you protect your mental health? Dr. Sherry Walling, PhD, has some suggestions. A licensed clinical psychologist and founder of ZenFounder, Dr. Walling offers tips to help protect your mental health during turbulent times.
In this resource roundup, you’ll find community-recommended resources for things like COVID-19 small business loans, leading remote teams, protecting your business during uncertain times, forecasting and more. We also have launched a a series of online events to help you connect with industry leaders to get the answers you need.
It isn’t easy to make strategic decisions when you’re operating off of emotion instead of data. In this guest post, Tom O’Neill shares a forecasting model to help digital shop leaders guide regular discussions and gain valuable business insights.
How do you safeguard the financial stability of your company in uncertain times? In this guest post, Jody Grunden, Co-Founder and CEO of Summit CPA Group, shares strategies on sound decision-making, communication and financial planning.
With COVID-19, it seems new information and resources are emerging every day. To help sort through it all, we’ve collected the articles, tools and resources that digital leaders within the Bureau community have found helpful in addressing challenges such as health concerns, business planning, working remotely and communicating effectively. Read on for advice, guides, interviews and more, and add your recommendations to the mix. You can also post your questions in a comment, and we’ll reach out to our community experts for answers.
Wherever you are and whatever you’re going through, remember that you aren’t alone. You are part of a community that cares about you and wants to help you overcome every obstacle. Right now there is so much new, uninformed and even spammy content circulating online that it’s been frustrating for many of us. To help, we’re pulling together resources, subject matter experts and pulse reports to help the community get past some of the uncertainty we’re facing.
We’ve been doing a virtual summit experience for years, and we’ve been planning virtual camps and more for when the time was right. Well…it looks like it’s time. So let’s do this! In April, we’ll be launching Virtual Camps and Bureau Circles, two new Bureau experiences to help you connect with peers, develop new solutions and grow as a leader.
How do you approach discovery? Collaborate as a remote team? Ensure website compliance or make sure you’re covered in the event of force majeure? These are just a few of the many questions posed in the Bureau community this past month. Check out digital leaders’ favorite tools, services and resources, and add your own to the list.
In the agency world, many times it’s feast or famine. While many of us have gotten good at standardizing how we deliver, we may not have operationalized our sales approach as well as we would like. Parallax’s Tom O’Neill and David Annis offer some ideas to help standardize your sales process, uncover your value proposition and focus your pitch on outcomes rather than “speed and feeds.”
If you’re in need of some inspiration and resources to make your work life easier, look no further than this month’s resource roundup. Thanks to the Bureau community, we have recommendations on dozens of books, podcasts, webinar platforms, collaboration tools and more. Maybe you’re looking for someone to help you improve your leadership (life coach, anyone?) or tools to help you manage file versioning and passwords. Whatever your goals or workplace stressors, chances are this list can help.
Building the right thing is hard work in software development. At Sparkbox, digital project managers and tech leads work closely together to ensure success. In this guest post, Sparkbox Project Manager and Digital PM Summit alum Austin Munhofen offers an inside look at the DPM-Tech Lead alliance, offering tips on how to cultivate an effective partnership.
Good communication leads to better collaboration, happier teams and more successful projects. But it can take real work to get people on the same page, especially when you’re dealing with competing priorities, personalities and job titles. With the help of solid tools—project plans, status reports and meeting guidelines—you can improve stakeholder communication and make things easier for everyone involved.
Chronically late-paying clients are a burden on your cash flow and can put your business at risk. In this guest post, Audrey Giannini, Virtual CFO at Summit CPA Group, shares strategies for accelerating accounts receivable and maximizing cash flow.
What does the future hold for digital studios, shops and agencies, and how are companies meeting business challenges today? Take the Digital Services Outlook Survey by February 14, 2020 and get your free copy of the report. The more organizations that contribute, the more insights we all can benefit from.
Is it better to hire a design generalist or specialist—and how should you position yourself as a designer as markets evolve? Ryan Spanswick, Director of Product Design at Praxent, joins us in this guest post to share his thoughts.
We all want to make our work lives better and more fulfilling. And the Bureau community knows the tools, services and resources to help you do just that. From improving team engagement to speeding up web projects, setting agreements up for success, mapping out process, working in comfort and more, here are the latest and greatest favorites from digital leaders around the globe.
As we kick off 2020, it’s the perfect time to dig into business strategy and plans for growth. Even better, why not hear first-hand from others who have been where you are today and come out ahead, plus spend a few days in one of the most exciting cities in the world?
With Bureau Bucks, you can spend that extra budget, lower your tax burden and enjoy the flexibility of choosing which events, programs or opportunities your team would like to take advantage of in the future.
Each month, we scour hundreds of Bureau community conversations to surface the latest and greatest tools, articles, services and more. This edition is packed with leadership resources, tools to bring your team together, solutions to help improve business and more. Dig in and share your go-to favorites.
As we look forward to 2020, we’re bringing back all of the community favorites, plus hosting several new workshops for even more professional development and team training. See what's coming up, and make plans to join us.
