Leading Creative Teams: Management Career Paths for Designers, Developers, and Copywriters [Paperback]

Learn the skills you must master to assume leadership rolescreative directors, art directors, and advertising managerson creative teams and in integrated branding campaigns for corporate clients. This book compares and contrasts the skill sets and responsibilities of creatives with those of managers who direct creative teams. Technical competence in the creative arts is a necessary but not sufficient prerequisite for promotion to and success in positions directing creative teams. Business, management, and communication skills are equally necessary.

Leading Creative Teams reviews the business metrics that the manager of a creative team must be able to manipulate and present persuasively to the organization to prove that the teams creative excellence delivers superior ROI. Award-winning designer and veteran creative director Eleazar Hern?ndez walks you through the creative managers skill setstechnical, business, management, and communication. He covers the techniques and tools common to the direction of creative teams in all industries: brainstorming, creative exploration and visual communication tools, internal and client presentations, critiquing, mentoring, and copywriting.

Hern?ndez shows how creative directors can apply management and leadership skill sets to different kinds of creative teams found across interactive, graphic design and advertising industries and how they orchestrate methods among team members. He details how creative teams vary in their concepts and principles, composition, objectives, and processes according to their specific industries and project requirements. And he shows you how to shape your career trajectories toward creative management roles in your chosen field.

Leading Creative Teams features information on the processes and best practices for ideating, developing, and directing advertising campailóž