How do you host a remote workshop? Plan for PPP forgiveness? Or inspire creative breakthroughs? You’ll find ideas for all this and more on this month’s Resource Roundup—plus some tools to boost your productivity. Check out recommended tools, articles, playlists and more.
Recently I got a message from a new member that captured the impact of the community perfectly. He wrote, “The Bureau has been a lifeline during the current crisis. I’ve leaned on the slack channels and contacts I made at the event in New Orleans. I wanted to let you know this is something special and it’s appreciated.”
These are challenging times for any leader. Regardless of how big your company is, or how many people are on your team, it can feel like you’ve lost your focus or are unable to rally your team forward. Traci Barrett, President and Founder of Navigate the Journey, can put you on the right path. Here are four key areas to focus on in order to show up for your team and drive results.
With COVID-19, we’re all facing unprecedented challenges in an unprecedented time. Under the best conditions, leadership, teams and culture are tough to master. But in the midst of a global pandemic, it can feel overwhelming, or nearly impossible, to lead effectively—especially when you’re working remotely. Stephen Gates, Head Design Evangelist at InVision and Host of The Crazy One podcast, is no stranger to remote work. Read on for Stephen’s take on embracing change, setting your remote team up for success and cultivating a culture that’s stronger than ever before.
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.
