Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
The folks over at LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linnet released the latest installment in their Culture Track series and as always, it’s filled with wealth of useful information. The results from this round included surveys and research from the latter half of 2021 and by this point, the group had a much deeper well to draw from and unsurprisingly, patterns (and surprised) started to form. Here are some key takeaways: “More …
Workplace culture and job satisfaction have been regular topics here at Adaptistration for nearly two decades and while change moves at a glacial pace, I am seeing more positive change over the past three years than the decade prior. Case in point, Tom O’Connor recently posted something at LinkedIn on that topic that comes across as a combination of processional statement and call to action (emphasis added). So much content about …
Today’s post begins with analytics. I was examining the user flow for organization’s posting job listings at ArtsAdminJobs.com to see if any of the changes rolled out over the last few months had any unexpected negative impact. The good news is the answer was no; at the same time, I did discover one step in the submission process that took users much longer to complete than everything else. As it turns …
Allow me to clarify today’s title a bit by saying LinkedIn is more useful when it comes to engaging with colleagues on news and topics about the field and arts management in general. I don’t know when the shift happened exactly but last week, it became clear I’m spending more time scrolling through my LinkedIn news feed than Facebook. The reason is straightforward enough: LinkedIn has more relevant content. Sure, that’s …
The latest installment in the series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do is now published! This article focuses on Parkinson’s Law, which dictates any task will inflate until all the available time is spent. It’s common to apply this item to time management, it’s just as applicable to the processes we create for others. And …