Project Managment

Your discomfort around talking about money puts you into this position where people can take advantage of you. Chris Do helps us talk about money in easy tangible ways.

This is a process you've heard Chris talk about. And you can use over and over again, it's called chunking. Just take a big goal and make it smaller and smaller and smaller.

Have you been curious about how Greg Gunn and Ben Burns manage the workflow of creative teams? In this call they both break down how this is done: Onboarding, process, file management, and stay organized.

When briefing the team, we make sure the goals are clear and the metrics of success are defined. Matthew Encina breaks his process.

Salespeople tend to want to just do whatever they can to close the sale. That's pretty much what they do. They make promises on behalf of the teams that have to make the work, and it creates a friction between sales and production. What should happen is under promise and over deliver.

There are two types of questions, logistical, which is what is your deadline? How much money do you have? How much time do you need to turn around feedback? What are important milestones? And then there are creative questions or open-ended questions, which are not about tangible things that you can necessarily quantify.

I imagine most of us have gone through this. You have a plan client changes their mind. You're like, Oh no, what do I do now?

The team breaks down how they use: Trello, Teamgantt, Notion, Slack, And Dropbox.

What happens when empathy is not enough? How are you conducting yourself?

Chris Do sums up how to prioritize tasks in the most efficient way possible.

Chris Do helps the pro group design a new client onboarding process for their companies.

Paying international workers, communication barriers (language), time differences, managing milestones, and deadlines. How much time should I pad? Onboarding new contractors with your process. Determining skill/culture fit? How do I vet? Should freelancers be talking to my client? How should you scope/charge for things you are not an expert in? Employee vs freelancer? Flakey freelancers. How do I distill what my client/boss wants?

Topics discussed: How to convert existing clients as you transition to strategy? How to convert existing clients to the retainer models? How to maintain client enthusiasm as the project goes on? How to retain expertise status w/ client and not let them dictate creative? How to limit revisions?

In this call we break down the roles of the team, client needs and action items.

Have you been in a meeting with time spent but not much is discussed and people are not focused. How can we go deep on a topic?