Telling people they have done an excellent job when they have done something perfectly ordinary is the new way of ensuring we don’t actually aim very high. I have been working with organisations in the last two months where the aim is to achieve a new level of performance, and to pull off this rather demanding goal we needed to go back to some basics which are probably worth sharing. Nowadays we tend to have a set of well-intended but ultimately numbing induction and training options that... more
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Issue 170: Working with Libraries , Issue 170: Making Arts Buildings Pay
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Working with Libraries, Making Arts Buildings Pay
19 May 2008Arts organisations should be aiming high ? but this can only happen if managers take the excellence agenda on board, says Howard Raynor.
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19 May 2008
Matt Carwardine-Palmer reveals the five websites he wouldn?t want to be without.
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19 May 2008
Bridget Edwards marvels at the work of arts professionals who help offenders to learn how to learn.
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19 May 2008
Mhora Samuel explains some of the environmental challenges and opportunities for new-build theatres in a zero-carbon world.
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Stereotypes wither when arts organisations collaborate with libraries, Adam Pushkin discovers.
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19 May 2008
Anne Sherman shows how art and literature development can read from the same hymn sheet.
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19 May 2008
Nineteenth-century buildings can work in a twenty-first century world if the resources are made available, says Nica Burns.
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19 May 2008
Galleries and libraries are reaching out to similar audiences, writes Leisa Gray.
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19 May 2008
Specialised resources and staff help to make a successful enterprise out of hire and services, writes Richard Lee.
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19 May 2008
Paul Bogen identifies a range of non-arts activities that building-based arts organisations in Europe are using to increase their income.