Learn how to make better, smarter, and more strategic staffing and organizational decisions to grow and manage your creative team.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introduction to the rules of creative staffing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Job descriptions
- Employee agreements
- Regular check-ins
- Performance reviews
- Promotion paths
- Final thoughts on staffing
Taught by
Emily Ruth Cohen
