Running a Design Business: The Staffing Rule Book
1h 5mIntermediate2021-09-02
Authors
Emily Ruth Cohen
Business Consultant for Creatives
Course details
Are you ready to grow your creative business? In this course, consultant Emily Ruth Cohen provides recommendations and a list of easy-to-follow rules for how to hire, organize, manage, and review employees within a creative team. Emily covers the hard and fast rules for staffing and staff management, culled from the mistakes and successes of other creative teams. These rules will help you strategically plan your organizational structure and roles, improve how you hire and manage your team, conduct more effective performance reviews, and more.
Skills covered
Coaching and MentoringTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Introduction to the rules of creative staffing
1. Firm Leadership
- 02 - Leadership vs. management
- 03 - Benchmark current state of leadership
- 04 - The role and responsibility of the firm's leadership
- 05 - Mapping your own role - An exercise
- 06 - Why solopreneurship is unsustainable
2. Organizational Model and Team Roles
- 07 - Client-focused or billable functional areas
- 08 - Firm-focused or non-billable functional areas
- 09 - Six key attributes team members must have
- 10 - 12 hard and fast organizational rules
- 11 - Six important financial rules
3. The Search and Hiring Process
- 12 - Five hard and fast rules for hiring
- 13 - Job postings
- 14 - How to find the best candidates
- 15 - How to interview, and must-ask questions to include
- 16 - Vet candidates and check references
4. Management Tools
- 17 - Job descriptions
- 18 - Employee agreements
- 19 - Regular check-ins
- 20 - Performance reviews
- 21 - Promotion paths
Conclusion
- 22 - Final thoughts on staffing