Managing Time and Others
You work at a big advertising agency. Your boss has assigned you the head of a group of 10 people. Your task is to come up with a sales pitch for Yonder's brand glasses. You have three days to come up with ideas, create mini-billboards, business cards, commercials, slogans, and magazine ads. What do you do?
- Assess the situation. Figure out what exactly it is your team needs to do.
- Brainstorm ideas as a group. Write the winning ideas down.
- Decide who does what based on strengths. When assigning tasks, explain what they need to and by what date/time. Make sure you're extremely clear. Also, get everyone's contact information.
- You can either take on his task yourself or find another with his strengths to get the job done. Always have a back-up plan.
- Have everyone present what they have done so far. Use constructive criticism and make sure they explain what they've done in a manner so you understand as if you did it yourself. After all, you're the one who is going to pitch it to your boss.
- Set another presentation date for the team.
- By now, you expect everyone to have their ideas formed and presentable. You spend this time going over your pitch and working out the bugs.