Guest: NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert Stephen Colwell

Far too many creative professionals are struggling with a relentless din of meetings and interruptions that too often get in the way of the strategic work they were hired to do. During this webinar, we’ll walk through a simple set of practices and routines even the smallest teams can use to improve focus without all the disruption and confusion. If you work in a team environment (and you do as a freelancer working with your client) where strong coordination and collaboration is vital to your success, this workshop was designed for you.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

• Forward-planning strategies to increase success

• Upfront planning to produce better and more concrete suggestions

• Boundaries to institute to turn transactional relationships to deeper value relationships

• Barriers to productivity

• Components of team effectiveness

• Issue-solving techniques

• Developing healthy conflict to produce better decision making

Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes

Stephen (“Steve”) Colwell serves as CEO and head of strategy for Clarify Media and Completing, two Southern California–based firms specializing in marketing and project management. With over 10 years of hands-on agency experience as a copywriter, brand strategist, and project manager, he brings a broad and deep range of both marketing and operations expertise to the community. From strategy and design to growth and performance, Steve offers a rare mix of creative and analytical thinking toward helping creative professionals, teams, and small businesses accelerate their progress and achieve more. He has led project teams responsible for over $100+ million in annual revenue across four continents. A certified Agile practitioner, Steve is fanatical about helping others work in teams more effectively and operate at their best using the same proven routines practiced by today’s top-performing companies.