By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit: @bakerbroductions Team member reviews are essential. This process allows your employees to understand how well they are performing and what they need to do to improve their work. Also, if your employee is showing a...
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Accomplish More by Maintaining Focus
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Two skills every successful designer needs are time management and the ability to concentrate in the midst of chaos. Without them you can easily find yourself overwhelmed by all the demands being placed upon you. Although it...
Trending-Design Sleep Advisors
By Karen B. Wolf Karen B. Wolf Interiors I am not sure when sleep, or lack there of, became a trend but if you just purchased your first Mattress in a Box you are way behind the mattress movement that has awakened the bedroom category for the design industry. Our...
When You Should Hire?
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting How do you know you are ready to hire? Are you (and/or your team) regularly putting in overtime? Paying overtime can cost almost as much as hiring a new member for your team, and that is just...
Does Your Team Have the Right Stuff?
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit: Emily Wilson Photography When you hired the members of your team, you no doubt checked their references, verified their experience, and perhaps even tested them on their design and office software skills. But what about...
Thinking Outside of the Box: How to Spark Your Creativity
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Are you looking for ways to get inspired and spark your creativity? Look over the following ideas and you just might find a few that may help you to recharge that creative streak. Take a “trip” outside...
Build Your Team’s Skills
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Photo Credit-@bakerbroductions Would you like to have more time to devote to areas of your business you feel need shoring up or are being neglected? Do you wish you could offload some of the routine tasks that...
Make Time for Inspiration
By Gail Doby, ASID CVO and Co-Founder of Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting When’s the last time you spent some quality time with your muse? The popular notion of inspiration is that it’s something that comes from out of the blue, that it hits when you least expect it. It’s...
Podcasting: The New PR
By Nick May Owner at Walls By Design and Podcast Host at The Chaise Lounge In the digital age we are now living in, PR no longer solely consists of mentions on the radio or television, a spot in a newspaper or magazine, press releases or events. We can now...
Client Amazement Initiative
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting How do you “wow” your clients? As soon as you interview that ideal client it’s important to have a plan in place to create that wow factor in your current and future relationship. Design a thorough questionnaire...
