As we creep closer to the end of our second year of our pioneering BA in Creative & Cultural Industries, I am really pleased to...
John O'Brien and I recently published a review of the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme in the Irish Journal of Arts Management and...
We are only beginning to come to terms with the impact of Covid on our ways of working and on our relationships with each other...
May 7, 2006
I’ve embarked on a PhD programme this year which is throwing up all kinds of challenges and delights (so far, in equal measure). I’m in that beginning phase where as each day goes by I realise what I don’t know. There are times when it’s incredibly dispiriting because I know…
May 2, 2006
For years I’ve fooled everyone around me into believing I think in straight lines. My academic and business writing makes “sense” and I can follow the rules if I’m pushed to it. But I’m a secret mind mapper…it’s the only way I can make any kind of sense out of…
April 23, 2006
I am very regularly asked about the differences between coaching and therapy. I frequently read marketing blurb that suggests that therapy focuses on the “past” and coaching on the “future”; that therapy is about “resolving issues” and coaching is about “improvement”. Therapy is also accused of not offering “tools” for…
April 20, 2006
Johnnie has an interesting post today about the value of blogging and its “indirect” way of making things happen. He says: But the longer I do this, the more I realise that this blog pays off for me in lots of indirect ways. And I’ve had two or three very…
April 19, 2006
In order to meet the demands of (some!) readers…I’m reverting to consulting “lite” for this post which I’ve shamelessly borrowed from this site. The idea is to choose a word from each column and viola! instant consulting jargon…and if anything I ever write conforms to this protocol, please operationalize bleeding-edge…
April 18, 2006
As I mentioned in the previous post, I use a process called Dynamic Participation as a methodology for consulting and facilitating. Increasingly we live in an age where “participation” is thrown around like snuff at a wake – what exactly does it mean? and more to the point, what does…
April 17, 2006
In terms of clarity, strategy has become an ever more obtuse art (Micklethwait J and Wooldridge A, 1996, pp159). We are regularly invited to assist organisations in the generation of strategic plans. The generation of a document or report is very often seen as the “end product” of a process…
April 17, 2006
I’m delighted to announce that Interactions has won the contract to design and manage a consultation process for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to inform the first strategy for arts development in the county. We’ll be working closely with the Arts Office and I’m looking forward to meeting artists, policy…
April 17, 2006
The director of the conference I attended in France made a short presentation at the last session in which he encapsulated what he and the management had been doing for the 8 days of our experience. “We have been managing boundaries, not policing rules” That’s the most concise description of…
April 17, 2006
What happens when you have 80 people in a confined space over 8 days? Emotions start running high, that’s what. And in some cases – very high and I include myself in that description. It’s interesting to find myself in an institutional setting experiencing much of what my clients experience…
