Today was very interesting. We started out our day by sitting in on a social status meeting. This is essentially a daily practice by the people at FWV which makes sense, as they have many accounts to go through. After the social status, we had a brief meeting with Barrie Hancock in the kitchen. Barrie oversees many different divisions at FWV, and she helps fill any agency needs. We had a really interesting conversation with Barrie. Barrie told us about many aspects of FWV including their focus on work-life balance. Barrie also gave us some leadership advice, and told us that as a manager or leader you have to play to the interests and motivations of your group of people, you need to be able to listen, you need to be able to adapt, and you need to give credit where credit is due. In the afternoon, we met with Natalie Best, the COO. Natalie gave us a lot of useful information about leadership as well, and gave some insights into how the advertising field works on a larger scale. After this, we had been tasked to review two client proposals. One was made by a small credit union, and the other was made by a non profit organization dedicated to helping out boards of directors. Essentially, these proposals were put out by these organizations with the hopes of receiving pitches from firms like FWV. We gave Natalie some input on wheter or not we thought it would be good business for FWV, and why it would/wouldn’t fit.
This is a picture of all of our cubicles.