Grizzard Communications Employee Review

Current Employee – been working at Grizzard Communications

Pros – Every team was different of course, but most people that were reasonably aggressive with their careers and driven to learn more, make more, and have a greater impact did okay here for a while. There were a lot of opportunities to move up at least in the short term.

If you had a good manager, you were likely to have a good time there.

Some people loved it there, and there is no reason they shouldn't. Like most companies, it was not for everyone, but it was not hard to see why some people really excelled.

Cons – Upper management had good intentions, but a real lack of experience, foresight, and thought leadership when it came to change. This unfortunately resulted in a lot of people at the lower levels feeling like they were doing work that wasn't their responsibilities.

Hired as a coordinator? Surely, you can manage projects for project management, answer digital questions for clients, and put together marketing plans, right? Working on a shared service team? There's no reason you shouldn't be doing the account team's job, answering the same questions over and over, and wasting your time doing something else that really doesn't fulfill you or fall within your job description, right?

Advice to Senior Management – Find someone you can really trust and give them full power to remake the agency. It was a great place, but quickly became a not so great place and will soon be a really horrible place to work. Upper management clearly does not have the vision to remake the agency, force teams to work together, and improve process and flow. As long as those things remain problems, the really smart and the really driven will not stick around for long.