A solid agency workflow can take your business from good to great. Get it right, and you’ll have a better chance of reducing agency bottlenecks, staff burnout, and client churn. All while retaining revenue you’d otherwise…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
Jackie Olson has had an unconventional journey in the ad world. Shortly after joining Digitas in Boston, covid hit. Fast forward two years and she’s left the ad world for a job as a snowsports instructor…
Written by Jo Johansson
Amirreza Farhadi is the Associate VP of Operations at Havas CX Canada. Part of Havas’s senior leadership team, he builds, monitors, and improves processes to ensure the business runs smoothly. In his eyes, that starts with…
Written by Jo Johansson
Building an agency team structure that is strong, lean, and effective is the first ingredient in your agency’s recipe for success. It’s also a crucial and foundational element to your business, to ensure strong project execution…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
What agency PM doesn’t love a process? We’re going to reveal a nine-step agency project management process, including tips on how to best document each stage. The importance of an agency project management process Processes provide…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
Today we’re digging into agency PM methodologies, to help you figure out which approach is the best fit for your projects and your agency culture. Now, if you’re new to managing agency projects or want to…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
Welcome to our agency project management blog series, where we set out to uncover all you need to know about running effective project management programs at your agency. In this five-part series, we’ll cover everything from…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
At the heart of every thriving agency, there’s a well-oiled machine known as agency operations. From resource allocation and workflows to client management and process optimization, agency operations are what, well, keeps your agency in business.…
Written by Eleanor Hope Jones
Job stress (including burnout) costs American employers over $300 billion annually. Low employee engagement—a common burnout symptom—costs the global economy $7.8 trillion annually. Burnout spans across industries, but some are more at risk than others. Data…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
Agency resource planning and management processes help you align the right people with available project work. Doing it well leads to happy, productive agency teams committed to delivering high-quality client outcomes. Project success and satisfied clients…
Written by Rachael Nicholson
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Written by Paul Morris
The advertising industry doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to work-life balance. It’s notorious for its fast-paced, high-pressure environment, where tight deadlines and demanding clients are the norm. “It’s agency life” is the rationale…
Written by Jo Johansson
It may come as a surprise that Earth Day goes all the way back to 1970. Long before plastic waste protests, carbon footprint calculators, and Greta Thunberg existed. That means 2020 marked half a century’s worth of…
Written by Percy Stilwell
They say that a watched pot never boils. And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any…
Written by Jo Johansson
The best project managers go the extra mile for their teams. Not only do they wrestle with undefined gray areas to find win-win scenarios for all stakeholders and remove roadblocks that prevent people from getting work…
Written by Jo Johansson