Vicky Cassidy of Grid Productive teaches us how teams can get more efficient and effective when trying to implement a creative project. She shares meeting techniques and tips, online tools, and a great story about how one team implemented a creative project with success.

What You’ll Learn

* Tools your team can use to stay on track and productive

* Tips to avoid those boring, time-wasting meetings and how to make them more efficient

* How to move forward when your team is stuck with one part of a project

Resources

* Slack – free communication tool for teams

* Asana – free project management tool for teams

* Todoist – free project management tool for teams and individuals

* Grid Productive – Vicky Cassidy’s productivity company

* How to Write a Review in iTunes

The Weekly Challenge

The weekly challenge is to try out one or more tools to help you and your team by more productive. Share in the show notes what you think and results you are seeing.

Transcript

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Transcript for Episode #013: Moving Creative Ideas

In today’s episode we’ll explore tools and tips to move your team’s creative ideas into reality.

Amy Climer:  Welcome to episode #013 of the Deliberate Creative Podcast.  Today’s episode we have a special guest, Vicky Cassidy of Grid Productive.  Vicky works with teams and individuals to help them be more productive in order to accomplish what they want to get done including creative projects.  I’ve known Vicky for a couple of years now and I’ve seen the results of her coaching in other people, and I’m actually just about to start working with her myself to help me be more productive and effective in my own business, which I’m super excited about.

Today Vicky is talking about where teams often get stuck when they are trying to implement a creative project and what to do about it.  She shares some tools that teams can use and then at the end, she tells a great story about how one team she worked with implemented a creative project.  Here’s Vicky.

Amy Climer:  Vicky welcome to the Deliberate Creative Podcast.  I’m so glad you’re here today.

Vicky Cassidy:  So excited to be on the podcast, Amy.

Amy Climer:  Thanks.  Tell us a little bit about your background, who you are and what you do.

Vicky Cassidy:  Sure.  I run a business called Grid Productive.  What I do is I help small businesses become more efficient and more productive.  This happens in a bunch of different ways but what I often find is that small businesses are being ineffective because maybe they don’t have the technology solutions that they need, or they have poor task management or project management skills so I help teach them how to be better in those areas.  Also, I take a look at what their business operations are like.  How they run things at the high level and then try to figure out where we can streamline things and where we can put in processes that will make things run more smoothly.

Amy Climer:  That’s great.  One of the things that is a trend throughout this whole podcast is the Creative Problem Solving Process and the fourth stage of the Creative Problem Solving is Implementation and I talked about that in