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Creative agencies are unique in that they handle large volumes of projects, clients, and tasks on a daily basis. This type of environment easily overwhelms employees and makes it difficult to stay focused, as they are constantly jumping around from project to project. Not to mention, stress is one of the biggest contributors to decreased productivity. If your employees are stressed and overwhelmed, you will find it very difficult to get things done.
What is the secret behind hitting your deadlines? Monitoring workloads for your creative team. It’s critical to identify the metrics important to understanding and measuring your workloads. Once you identify these metrics, you can find tools, such as project management software, to help you track, measure, and analyze these metrics. Through this analyzation you can better plan, prepare, and produce quality work on schedule.
It is critical to do your research when it comes to selecting project management software, but once you've found a few applications that you like, it's even more important to test them out!
Creative teams are busy busy busy. Most in-house creative teams have hundreds of jobs moving through the department each month. Well managed teams use metrics to monitor production and provide management with insight. Do you ever notice that the vibe on your team is off? Is the team feeling slammed? Are you about to enter a busy period? Do you need to bring in a few temps? Metrics provide you with data to analyze and plan ahead.
Hire a consulting firm to come in and evaluate the workflow in your in-house department and the first thing they will ask is if you are keeping track of time. Without timesheets how can you analyze productivity? The challenge here is that no one wants to enter timesheets. Entering time is an extra task for teams that are already overworked. But that’s entirely the point. How do you prove you are overworked if you don’t have any data?