You’re hired!
Appointing a senior member of staff is rarely an easy task, Diana Barden looks at how assessment centres are shaking up the recrui…
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Diary of a director
Start by building relationships, says Steve Marmion, big change can wait
Leading the way
Investment in cultural leaders can be scarce, but Sue Hoyle explains how candidates can Clore their way to the top
Need to know
Looking for advice? AP finds the answers to your questions
Alive and kicking
Why should arts funders invest in experimentation? Hasan Bakhshi presents findings from NESTA’s new research
Waving or drowning?
Shaun Belcher debates ideas on how to improve community arts
From Russia, with guts
Immersive opera might only just be catching on in Britain but, as David Staples reports, Opera Gulag has already gone some way to…
Plug in to the matrix
How can local authorities develop cultural leadership? Kathleen O’Neill explains how matrix management transformed Scotland’s…
Top 5 Websites
Kim Lofthouse shares the websites she wouldn’t want to be without
Mix and match
Looking at the year-on-year mammoth success – and variety of cultural choice – on offer in Edinburgh every August (p1)…
Bums on Seatem
The second financial collapse of the Keith Prowse ticket agency in 16 years comes as little surprise to the clients working with t…
Stealing strategy
Is the arts baby drowning in the strategy bathwater? Alice Devitt thinks that business techniques should support, not overwhelm, a…
Boiling VAT
Mahmood Reza follows up on Garsington Opera’s VAT victory by explaining how the new rules work.
Add up your value
Mahmood Reza looks at how Gross Value Added is calculated, what it means for your organisation and why it can be a useful measure.
The march of the Twitterati
Something fundamental is going on in the media world, says William Shaw. It’s big, scary, only half understood, and it&rsquo…
Cultural shift
Catherine Large calls for a radical re-think of the accepted routes into the creative and cultural sector, arguing for a shift awa…
Risky business
Mahmood Reza explains the importance of good risk management to the health of an organisation.
For the record
Mahmood Reza explains how balancing the books maintains a company’s equilibrium.
The good, the bad and the uncomfortable
Kooj Chuhan examines the dangerous lives being lived on our doorstep, and looks at how artists can support migrants and refugees.
Success and succession
Rick Bond explains the need to prune the dead wood from your board of trustees to encourage new growth.
Testing times
Mahmood Reza examines the possible implications of the economic downturn for arts organisations.
Creating accessible websites
Mark Atterbury offers advice on how best to reach disabled and deaf people online.
Leadership – Leadership – hit or myth?
Jodi Myers reflects on why leadership training initiatives are only part of a much bigger picture.
Creating business
Sinead MacManus looks at the vexed relationship between business, theatre and innovation and argues for new ways of thinking.
