Don’t Undermine A Good Crisis Plan With Minor Daily Inattentiveness
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You and your staff are ready for a crisis. Everyone, including your volunteers, regularly reviews plans for handling your audience in case of fire, tornado, earthquakes, active shooters, etc. In fact, you are plugged in to resources like ArtsReady which is specifically designed to provide advice on crisis planning to arts organizations. Your community knows where to look and listen to learn about the status of events when bad weather threatens. But all this could ...
Always Revise This Contract Language
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One of my earliest posts on ArtsHacker encouraged people to feel comfortable with altering and amending contracts. Every organization operates in a different environment and has varying levels of risk tolerance that will determine what changes they might make to a contract. Always Revise In This Scenario One contract scenario I would urge people to never leave unamended is where the service provider can cancel with minimal cost but where you as the contractor have ...
Managing Micro-Management
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Many people have horror stories about working for a supervisor that micro-manages their work. While that may be a hellish experience, it is even worse if you are the executive officer of an organization that has multiple board members attempting to micro-manage you. Even if everyone on the board isn’t interfering, others may be providing tacit support or reluctant to oppose what they see as the majority will. A few months back Ellis Carter provided ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…