My Brilliant Career...Humility takes you a long way to achieving success
Leigh-Anne Salonika is group account director at ad firm Grid Worldwide
What do you do at work each day? I normally check e-mails and touch base with my team. I also attend to clients' needs by providing strategic and creative solutions to problems. I then move on to the deliverables for the day and how we can best tackle the multiple disciplines to curate a meaningful outcome. Lots of coffee in between all of this, with a few meetings. Some days include reviews with creatives and seeing how a brief comes to life through out-the-box thinking. What important lessons have you learnt from the work you do? I have learnt to say the three magic words, "I don't know", followed by "Please can you help me". This simple truth has allowed me to absorb lessons from the greatest minds in the industry and taught me how to succeed across multiple skill sets within the creative industry. The most important fact to remember is that it isn't about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up. The industry seems to have taken a long time to promote women - ...
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