Scheduling for Creatives

Explore practical, actionable strategies that can help you and your design team tackle scheduling with confidence.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. The Everyday Schedule

• Understanding the daily reality
• How to start the day
• Creating a balanced workflow
• Increasing productivity around tight timelines
• Deliver bad news early
• How to end the day

2. How to Schedule You

• Understand when you are most creative
• Daily habits that help you win
• Signs that you need to adjust your process

3. Understanding the Team Schedule

• Setting the ground rules
• Working with easily distracted employees and team members
• Juggling scheduling, hiring, and profitability

4. How to Manage Client's Timing

• Understanding your role in the project schedule
• Bring clients into the schedule
• What to do with the schedule killers
• It’s time to have "the talk" with your client
• Be calm and give options

5. Some Tools That Can Help

• The ancient art of having a team conversation
• How to keep your list organized
• Team tools that will help you dominate the scheduling maze

Conclusion

• Next steps