
Need A Space? SpaceFinder Can Help
If you’re an artist or organization that doesn’t have a regular venue, you know the difficulties of finding places to rehearse or perform. My organization, the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is fortunate to have a semi-regular concert hall that we perform in frequently throughout the season. But, as we work to get into the community and meet people where they are, we’re running into the same challenge of finding appropriate performance venues. Many artists may be ...

Looking At Decision Making Processes
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Having a clear decision making process in an arts organization is important. With everyone wearing different hats and assuming different responsibilities as the situation warrants, sometimes it is unclear who has decision making authority. In other cases, someone makes a decision which obligates multiple people without consulting with them, giving rise to resentment. I have looked at many organizational decision making processes from multivoting, nominal group technique, various forms of brainstorming, prioritization matrix, Six Thinking ...

How To Organize Your Workweek
It’s the first week back from holidays and if you’re like me and many other workers, you spent much of the week trying to remember how to type and wondering why there were no more Christmas cookies in the office. If you’re a fan of New Years Resolutions, perhaps one is to be more productive at work. A December, 2015 article published on New York Magazine’s Science of Us column references an email from Googler ...
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