Learn how to Survive 2021: Maintain Working Collectively
While some aspects of our new WFH life are brilliant in terms of our productivity levels, the lack of pre-pandemic activities like catching up at lunchtime with coworkers or coffee meetings with potential customers has undoubtedly made working together more of a challenge over the past year.
As problem solvers, the creatives quickly adjusted to both working virtually with existing partners and finding new employees online. With remote working going to be more important than ever this year, we're talking to experts about how we can continue to work together until 2021.
NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK
BBH's production manager Stephen Ledger-Lomas is the first to admit that networking is easier said than done in our current situation. "It's hard. You don't meet anyone at a launch event. I've never met more people from all over the world faster than sitting on jury committees, meeting production talent for jobs, speaking to production or post-production companies or potential ones Meeting candidates for roles, ”he says.
While it is tempting to shy away from networking in its new, unfamiliar form, meeting new people virtually should still be high on your priority list, says Ledger-Lomas. “We'll go back to the real world, we'll have conversations at parties and events again, and we'll meet art buyers at advertising agencies. But in the meantime, I think it's actually a better opportunity than ever to get into what it means to do this digitally.