Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
When was the last time you took a good look at your LinkedIn profile? Sure, it is easy to let it slip into backburner purgatory but one of your 2015 new year’s resolutions should be swinging by to review and make necessary updates. One area in particular to take a closer look at is the “Projects” section and if what I hear from HR folks and department executives is accurate, this …
We must have reached a tipping point in this business and whatever the reason, all I know is that the last several weeks have seen a few dozen requests from CEOs and VPs cross my inbox related to what sorts of tech oriented skill sets should be included on contemporary marketing, box office, and communication job descriptions (JD). Most of my Venture Platform users do this on a regular basis whenever …
<sarcasm>Hooray for summer colds!</sarcasm> I’m under the weather today but fortunately, there’s no shortage of great content out there and one article in particular tackles the very touchy subject of what to do with employees that toe the Return on Investment line and how some groups just keep borderline employees around “just because.” Don’t think this applies to middle or entry level managers, in fact, I witness this phenomenon far more …
One of the mainstays of my traditional consulting work is negotiating individual work agreements; for managers, this usually focuses on executive employment agreements and for musicians, individual overscale agreements and one of the first aspects of that work is to identify non-monetary perks that have variable degrees of value for the client. More often than not, they tend to overlook a number of items simply because it never occurred to them …
My blogging colleague, Joe Patti, posted an intriguing article on 3/4/2014 about his surprise over the job description for the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) deputy director opening; in particular, he was taken aback by the lack of arts-centric requirements. At the same time, Patti defines his working relationship with OAC as top notch and acknowledged being comfortable with the idea that if the existing employees were cultivated using similar job descriptions …