Learning Outcomes:
On completing this module, students will be expected to be able to:
1. Understand and critically assess the key principles of people, risk and strategy management
2. Articulate the relevance of management to arts organisations while understanding its challenges
3. Identify and explain your own managerial style and approach
4. Apply the skills of reflective practice
Indicative Module Content:
This module explores the three main domains of management: people, risk and strategy. The following is an indicative lecture schedule for 2020/2021.
Module Introduction. Who are we? How do we want to work together? What do managers and leaders do? What does an arts manager do? A (very) brief history of management.
Management as Creative Practice - The principles and tools of traditional strategy and the changing world of Arts Management.
Innovative and Entrepreneurial Thinking: managing cultures or managing art? Collaboration, co-creation, communities, customers, end-users and audience. Business models, pivots and lean thinking.
Managing yourself. What makes you tick?
What motivates other people? Team roles and motivation theories.
Working in the arts means working through and with people. What do we need to know in order to be a ‘good’ people manager?
What is the role of the arts manager in facilitating creative and artistic risk?
What happens when things go wrong? Can we learn from failure (artistic and other)?