Navigating multiple workstreams in a small team can make managing conflicting priorities challenging. Here, the Association for Cultural Enterprises offers strategies for striking a balance.
Working in a small arts organisation can feel a bit like a one person band – you can find yourself juggling multiple business lines within one team, getting creative with limited budgets or pushing back that retail development project yet again! How do you strike the balance between innovation and operation whilst also caring for your team and the bottom line? There isn’t an easy answer – it comes with a heavy weight of responsibility as well as a great sense of achievement and pride of doing it all.
However, there are some considerations small arts organisations can make to manage conflicting priorities, aid decision making whilst creating a more welcoming, manageable place to work for your team.
Following on from a recent panel session at the Cultural Enterprises Conference – with Holly Burrows, The Cartoon Museum; Rosie Baker, Bishopsgate Institute; and Kate Rolfe, The Revels Office – this article shares top tips for working multiple roles in a small arts organisation...Keep reading on Association for Cultural Enterprises.
Working in a small arts organisation can feel a bit like a one person band – you can find yourself juggling multiple business lines within one team, getting creative with limited budgets or pushing back that retail development project yet again! How do you strike the balance between innovation and operation whilst also caring for your team and the bottom line? There isn’t an easy answer – it comes with a heavy weight of responsibility as well as a great sense of achievement and pride of doing it all.
However, there are some considerations small arts organisations can make to manage conflicting priorities, aid decision making whilst creating a more welcoming, manageable place to work for your team.
Following on from a recent panel session at the Cultural Enterprises Conference – with Holly Burrows, The Cartoon Museum; Rosie Baker, Bishopsgate Institute; and Kate Rolfe, The Revels Office – this article shares top tips for working multiple roles in a small arts organisation...Keep reading on Association for Cultural Enterprises.