Photo from Pexels By Liz For our team, and yours too, I bet, time management is an absolutely crucial skill. It’s what enables us all to work together effectively as a team, and to deliver quality work to our clients on time. My recent skillshare unpacked four
As friends started having kids, it seemed like a good time to dream up a policy that’s not just the legal bare minimum, but something more in line with our company culture and values.
During my three-month sabbatical, I walked the French Way, one of the routes of the Camino de Santiago, a 600-year old Christian pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela built on an older Pagan pilgrimage to what the Romans believed was the end of the world.
Photo from Unsplash By Liz As we start a new year, I thought it would be a good time to reconnect with what’s important to each of us in our work. For my skills share, I simply asked everyone to write down their answers to three questions
By Liz So you’ve sent work for approval and the feedback you receive is finally a description of what was required in the first place. We’ve all been there - whether it’s with a client or within your own team. A solid brief can determine the
By Liz It’s a big week at Pomegranite HQ. Sarah has joined us from Joburg for the week and we are celebrating our fifth birthday on Friday. The days have been busy seeing clients and workshopping our processes as a team. To break up the activity and
Photo by Nadim Merrikh on Unsplash By Liz At the office on Friday afternoons, we take stock of the week that was and have a short skills share. Each person in the team takes a turn to talk about a specific topic that the whole company can
Photo from RawPixel By Liz We’re part of a world that continuously pushes us to become better at what we do. But to do that we need to upskill ourselves. For many of us, taking time at the office to learn something new sounds like a scenario
Photo from Pixabay - Liz What to do when you make a mistake I made a mistake recently. While it’s never a great feeling when you mess up, we learned a lot from it, and thought that was worth sharing. Businesses rarely talk about blunders in a public setting.
So you’ve chosen a name for your business and you’re ready show the world your brand spanking new logo. Your designer starts asking you a lot of questions and suddenly it all seems like a big decision to make in one meeting. The decisions you make
It's always a surprise when a parent teaches you something new on your phone. My dad casually dropped these juicy tips during lunch over the weekend and it had us all downing our drinks to put our phones inside our glasses. 1. Go under water To take
By Liz We get three types of reactions to our business's name. 1. Dubiousness Unsure of whether we know how to spell or not. They usually don't say anything and just stare at the name for a while and then at us and then back at the name. 2. Recognition See