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Where do you draw inspiration from as a freelancer? Do you experiment with different methods and environments to inspire your creativity? Barbara Stewart shares how she sets a routine that supports the inquisitiveness of her inner child.
Finding your path Ideation Personal growth
How are you communicating your value, uniqueness and purpose through your profile? Nuno Martins shares some quick tips and tricks that have helped him not only increase the number of cold requests for expertise he gets, but also to make them more relevant.
Finding your path Personal growth Social media Start-up culture
How can you future-proof yourself in a VUCA landscape and booming freelance economy? Take a closer look at the skills, tools and adaptations that make up your unique offering. In a complex world, not being a specialist can actually be a great advantage. Dot-connector Duane Holland explores why you should embrace your interdisciplinarianism (try saying that one fast).
Finding your path Knowing where to start Personal growth
Ever wondered what the difference is between a specialism and a niche? And what does it mean to you as a freelancer? Jenna St John explains the difference, and why it is important.
Finding your path Knowing where to start Personal growth
Realising your people have your back and that they believe in you is undeniably priceless. They are your feedback, your sounding board, usually your first customers, and they can see things in a different light.
Fearlessness Personal growth Purposeful work
If you want to make a difference, the time is now. In today’s fast-moving, technology-filled world where we’re being pulled in many directions at once, finding your focus appears to be more critical than ever. Strategy Director, purpose-advocate, change-agent Paulina Lezama talks about the significance of getting to grips with the various layers and complexities of issues that matter most to you in her article for the FSC Mag.
Finding your path Personal growth Purposeful work
Take risks, grow, live a little. The unknown is invigorating. Don’t waste the time you have before you return to the known of death.
Behaviour / neuroscience Personal growth Purposeful work Start-up culture
For a team to operate with Radical candour, they must intersect on the positive side of two parameters; caring personally about your team/project and being willing to be challenged directly.
Behaviour / neuroscience Coaching Personal growth
Ideas & stories are incredibly important, but great experiences often come from a new and unique combination of the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ hacked together then refined.
Finding your path Game design Personal growth
At the end of the session, our tutor would give us feedback and suggestions on what went well and what didn’t. I listened and wrote it all down. Always be learning. If you can’t take feedback, you won’t grow.
Behaviour / neuroscience Comedy Personal growth
It’s more impressive if someone quits their job to start a business. For me the decision was easy: I was unemployed. Also, trying to go back to what I did before gave me pain.
App development Personal growth Purposeful work
Knowledge becomes a lot more powerful when you start applying it. You learn even more when you put things into action. And you remember it better. Hopefully, that will give you some kind of positive feedback that will start you on an endless curiosity loop.
Curiosity Personal growth Start-up culture
It is easy to overlook one of the most important aspects of design – life design. To truly live a life of happiness, fulfilment and purpose, we must first consciously design it to match our values. To do this, we have to consider far more than our mental health and instead focus on our health, energy, longevity and performance.
Coaching Empathetic leadership Personal branding Personal growth
The art of problem-solving requires the ability to think outside of what’s directly in front of us, in order to find a particular outcome or solution. Sometimes we can be too close to a project or issue to see what needs tweaking, which creates bias in our quest for a solution. What is the most efficient question we should be asking to find the winning outcome?
Business transformation Decision-making Personal growth Project management
It can often take years to find our grooves in employment, or even to take that first step into being freelance. It can be particularly difficult as a woman when there is a lack of role models in senior creative positions. Finding women-led communities can provide you everything you’re missing in permanent employment, and ultimately drive your professional development to the next level.
Finding your path Graphic design Personal growth Purposeful work
A renewed focus on employee experience as organisations grapple with engagement in a hybrid post-pandemic world has led to jobs in People gaining more exposure across the board. Avalyn Kasahara shares how just as the world of work is changing, so too should our approach to how we interact with our employees, and what People teams should be learning from the creative industries.
CX EX Personal growth
Our processes of creation are in constant flux, but never more rapidly than they are now. Alec Christie explores the impact on the film industry, and in particular the key skills that different creatives can develop for the future.
Filmmaking Personal growth
