productivity tips
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Creativity
How to find your creative flow in four simple steps
These days, it’s harder than ever for creative people to achieve that elusive feeling of “flow,” defined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as being “so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.” Of course, we’d all love to experience that sort of total creative absorption in our work. But in…
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Team collaboration
Remote collaboration built for creatives
Keep your teams organized. Manage creative projects with tools made for visual content. Start a project to manage creative assets, feedback, decisions and approvals in one place. That’s the power of Hightail.
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Team collaboration
The 6-Steps Creatives Use to Collaborate Remotely
The last two years accelerated our move to hybrid work, but that’s not when remote collaboration started. With a growing reliance on digital tools, we’ve been working together across vast distances for a number of years. But some creatives still use collaboration methods best suited for in-person offices. That means…
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Productivity
6 tips for writing a creative brief
If you’ve ever suffered through a difficult client/agency relationship, you’ll know what a frustrating experience it can be. As the client you feel like you’re not getting the agency’s best work and are wasting your money. Meanwhile the agency tears out its hair at your indecisiveness, while submitting new stories…
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Productivity
7 tips to turn “occasionally” working from home into the longer haul
Sure, you’ve probably worked from home when you’ve been waiting for a mattress delivery or have been feeling under the weather. In fact, according to a 2016 Gallup survey, 43 percent of those surveyed do telecommute sometimes, for two days a month on average. But the coronavirus pandemic means that…
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Productivity
4 things successful people do in the morning (and one they avoid)
While you don’t have to be a morning person to be a successful entrepreneur or political powerhouse – UK wartime prime minister Winston Churchill famously started the day with a cigar and whiskey – the evidence suggests that it does help. We took a look at the morning rituals of…
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Productivity
Take your workflow back to school
Now that the kids are all back at school and reinstalled in their daily educational routine, you should consider some opportunities for your own development. September is fast becoming the new New Year – a time where people’s thoughts turn to improving how they work. Now that the hazy days of summer…
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Productivity
The agency game: eight ways to leave your vendor
“It’s not you, it’s me.” “I’ve met someone else.” “I just need some space.” Breaking up is never easy but sometimes it needs to be done. If a relationship isn’t working out, remaining together isn’t healthy for either party. Only by admitting that things have soured and ending the affair…
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Productivity
Blue sky thinking with your feet on the ground
One of the standard guidelines for brainstorming is that there are no bad ideas in a brainstorm. The objective of this principle is to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and ensure that each suggestion is adequately explored without being dismissed too quickly. Yet how many times have you left a brainstorm with…
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Productivity
Four methods for mastering multitasking
In a recent survey conducted by Hightail, we discovered that only 16% of respondents work on a single project at a time. Everyone else is juggling multiple projects with nearly 40% working on four or more. Multitasking is the norm for most of us, but is it effective? Multitasking means switching…
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Productivity
Eight tips for beating deadlines
In a recent survey of creative professionals conducted by Hightail, we found that an astonishing 34% of people had missed a deadline in the past 12 months. Yet this figure is not that remarkable when you consider how complex creative projects are these days. To make an impact in today’s…
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Advice from 10 video production professionals
Are you interested in making your next video project more effective? We asked 10 producers, directors and more for their advice on making it in the world of video production. From focusing on the story to being cost conscious, these 10 tips will be useful for anyone involved in making a…
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