India

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

UX Research

Service Design Research

Content Strategy

Business Transformation

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

Tom Soney

CEO, Creative Director

Social media marketing

SEO Writing

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Brand positioning

Brand strategy

Business intelligence

Campaign execution & analysis

Content creation

Content pipeline

Content strategy

Design systems

Email marketing

Information architecture

Marketing strategy

Video marketing

User research

Product roadmap

Webflow

Ahref

Facebook Ads

Figma

Framer

Google Ads

Instagram Ads

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Analytics

SEMrush

Branding

Content research

Human computer interaction

Budget management

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Partnership

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Initially a freelance designer upgraded to a one person branding and marketing agency, now grown into company helping build and scale businesses with design strategy.

Tom Soney🇮🇳