An Orchestra Stakeholder’s Guide To New Year’s Resolutions

1. I resolve to confirm my organization provides meaningful protections against workplace sexual misconduct that genuinely focus on stakeholders and not merely the institution.
2. I resolve to donate 10 percent more to the organization than my highest previous annual gift.
3. I resolve to not be a HiPPO.

1. I resolve not to willfully misrepresent the opinions and positions of other stakeholders to board members.
2. I resolve to perform a ruthlessly efficient unconscious bias check in my decision-making process.
3. I resolve to explore meaningful win-win opportunities to improve musician involvement instead of simply asking them to do more for the same pay.

1. I resolve to do my part in making the organization’s website and digital communication platforms more accessible.
2. I resolve to bookmark ArtsHacker.com or subscribe to the weekly email summary.
3. I resolve to filter out angerand really listen to issues that need attention.

1. I resolve to become positively engaged in key musician overscale negotiations.
2. I resolve to make gender equality and diversity a meaningful priority in programming and hiring decisions.
3. I resolve to read the entire collective bargaining agreement, not just the parts about auditions and artistic review…then do it again.

1. I resolve, as a committee member, to learn how to properly identify user profiles and create compelling messaging based on those recipients instead of regurgitating the same old talking points.
2. As a union member, I resolve to act on making sure substitutes receive equal pay for equal workbecause without them, my job wouldn’t exist.
3. When serving on a committee, I resolve to remember that my job is to represent my colleagues instead of using my position as a vehicle to advance my own agendas.

You’re awesome too. Having said that, there are a few resolutions that would make your concert experience even better.

1. I resolve to demand gender equality and diversity in programming and not complain to the administration if a program doesn’t have at least two works from Mahler, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Ravel, Dvořak, Sibelius, or Prokofiev.
2. I resolve to bring no less than four friends to a concert who have never been to a concert before or attend infrequently.