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Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book

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Learn how to make better, smarter, and more strategic staffing and organizational decisions to grow and manage your creative team.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction to the rules of creative staffing
1. Firm Leadership
  • Leadership vs. management
  • Benchmark current state of leadership
  • The role and responsibility of the firm's leadership
  • Mapping your own role: An exercise
  • Why solopreneurship is unsustainable
2. Organizational Model and Team Roles
  • Client-focused or billable functional areas
  • Firm-focused or non-billable functional areas
  • Six key attributes team members must have
  • 12 hard and fast organizational rules
  • Six important financial rules
3. The Search and Hiring Process
  • Five hard and fast rules for hiring
  • Job postings
  • How to find the best candidates
  • How to interview, and must-ask questions to include
  • Vet candidates and check references
4. Management Tools
  • Job descriptions
  • Employee agreements
  • Regular check-ins
  • Performance reviews
  • Promotion paths
Conclusion
  • Final thoughts on staffing

Taught by

Emily Ruth Cohen

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