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What do you wish your CDs did more of? What do you wish they did less of?

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Approve my ideas instead theirs.

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Lol. I wish I could, but their ideas are always so much better. 🙂

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I’ve been fortunate to have worked into very talented CDs so far.

The best ones do all the same things:
- fight for the best work with accounts people and client
- fight for more time with the project manager
- is encouraging and ensures you leave each review with actionable next steps and clear direction
- prioritises making the teams ideas the best they can be before resorting to their own thoughts
- Cares as much about the people making the work than the work itself. This one is truly rare.

What they should do less off:
- speaking. Some CDs can speak in monologue format and literally not pause for 10-15 minutes. WTF
- imposing their own ideas upon teams. I always welcome a CDs idea and will always flesh one out, but in the first instance, their job is to DIRECT the ideas they’re given.
- being awful with technology. Get it together. It shows your age.
- being disrespectful of downtime. Most CDs aren’t like this, but some are.

The worst CD type by far is the panicky / flappable / emotional type that inadvertently ends up bullying everyone around them because they are permanently in a state of panic and worry and insecurity. This is the old guys with the fragile egos, but ALSO a fair few young female CDs. Don’t kill me for saying that. Just what I’ve seen.

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^this is it

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Love- when they build on ideas, empower team members, great everyone equally, trust and listen to other opinions

Dislike- imposing their own ideas onto their team, expecting their team to work all of the time, micromanaging and boxing creatives into how they and only they like things

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Fellow P&T Directors - here’s a thread for us to discuss what we are hearing/not hearing with regards to PCLDE and the making of new partners in P&T.

On every call, we hear Joe talk about making new Partners and his commitment. I have yet to see any of those ‘commitments’ be reflected in actions or explanations. (eg. No senior directors from commercial GTM going into PCLDE this year …) What?

Do they really think we’re going to ‘stick around’ until they ‘figure it out’ …

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One more scenario when dealing with counter offer with holding offer for X.

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