Talk to me, people – and talk to each other.
That’s the most important message I try to get across to my team members. As the Director of both the Web Team and Marketing/Editorial Team at Musicnotes.com, I have a lot on my schedule. I directly manage and work with six extraordinarily talented individuals across these two groups, each of which is truly a master of his or her domain. But along with being masters of their domains, they are also multi-talented individuals who are quite capable of helping each other out by stepping out of their specialty and into someone else’s (or a specialty we didn’t know we even needed).
With such a talented group, and at a continually growing and forward-thinking company like Musicnotes, there’s always a lot going on. When one project ends, another is always there to take its place – and oftentimes there are multiple projects being worked on at once. These kinds of circumstances are the ideal cocktail for confusion and failure to brew; with so much going on, almost all of it “high priority,” it’s easy to see how things could quickly spiral out of control. Continue reading →
