There is only one month left to apply to bring your leadership team together off-site for our intensive three-day Strategyseminar. Presented in Nashville, October 28-30, this rigorous working session will provide your leadership with a vocabulary to talk about who you are, what you do and why you do it. By the end of this seminar, you’ll be able to:
Evaluate the critical features of your organization’s external environment
Identify the unique value your organization can bring to your community
Balance artistic and economic choices
Ensure your organization’s resources are being used to support your most valuable initiatives
Leading professors of management will engage your team through the analysis of real-life cases, class discussions and team exercises to give you both a theoretical and a practical understanding of strategy development. By the end of the seminar, your team will have completed a structured analysis of your organization and will have an articulated path of action. See a detailed description of the seminar sessions »
All participating teams will receive Organization Fellowships covering the full $1250 tuition for a team of up to 5. Participants from outside Nashville will also receive up to $600 per person in travel support to help with the cost of travel and lodging. The deadline to apply is August 27.
Talk with an Expert: Managing Successful Teams features Professor Margaret Neale of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a celebrated expert on group dynamics, organizational behavior, influence and negotiations. Her research focuses on topics including team composition, learning, and performance; distributed work groups; and power and status. She also serves as the director for two executive programs – Negotiation and Influence Strategies and Managing Teams for Innovation and Success – and teaches extensively.
Join NAS and Professor Neale July 29, 1-2 PM EDT to explore your team’s questions about how to effectively build, manage and participate in groups. In advance of the live event, participants will have unlimited access to a recording of Professor Neale identifying critical challenges facing all teams and sharing strategies for making teams more effective.
Team participation is encouraged. Participation is limited to 12 organizations to allow for the highest level of interaction. Tuition is $95 per organization. Register now »
Let’s start with what strategy is not. Strategy is not a strategic plan. It’s not a mission, vision or goals. It’s not programming, marketing or finance.
Strategy is an organization’s integrated set of choices about what to do – and what not to do – using available resources. Strategy addresses how an organization pursues its mission using available resources and how it continues to attract the resources it needs to achieve its mission over time. A strategic plan documents how an organization intends to use its resources to implement its strategy over a set period of time. While mission and vision comprise a social logic for the organization’s existence, strategy can be described as the economic logic that complements the social logic. Read the rest of this entry »
There are key challenges that face all groups – who should be included, how to get team members to participate and contribute, how to avoid groupthink so you can generate the new ideas you seek. There are also proven strategies for addressing these and other challenges of team work. Join NAS July 29, 1-2 PM EDT for a small group Q & A session with expert Professor Margaret Neale of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business to explore your questions about making your teams more successful.
This small group discussion will be limited to twelve organizations to ensure the highest level of interaction. In advance of the live event, you and your team will be provided with a short recording of Professor Neale discussing the inherent challenges in working in teams and strategies for being more effective. We encourage you to gather a group of your colleagues and prepare questions in advance of the discussion based on the recording. The tuition for attending is $95 per team.
The NAS Strategy seminar features two leading professors on strategy development and strategic management, Professors Violina Rindova, and Robert Wiltbank. Professors Rindova and Wiltbank will lead teams of arts and culture leaders through class discussions, case studies and team exercises as they analyze and articulate why their organizations do what they do and what makes them unique. Read the rest of this entry »
Join NAS online July 29 for a Q&A session with Stanford University Graduate School of Business Professor Margaret Neale. There are inherent challenges that confront all team leaders and participants – from picking the right team for the task at hand to encouraging and enabling participation from the entire team. This online small-group discussion is your opportunity to explore your questions about managing successful teams with a true expert on the subject.
Talk with an Expert discussions are hour-long video-conferences in which twelve organizations get to directly explore their questions about a critical challenge with an expert. Managing Successful Teams features Professor Margaret Neale, an expert on group dynamics, organizational behavior, and influence and negotiations.
The live conversation will be held Wednesday, July 29, 1-2 pm EDT and will be anchored by a short recording in which Professor Neale identifies key challenges facing all teams and shares proven strategies for making teams more effective which. Participants will have unlimited access to this recording prior to the live event. Team participation is strongly encouraged and tuition costs $95 per organization.
Sixteen teams will be attendingCreative Alliancesin Detroit July 22-23 with a 2010 Organization Fellowship. All fellowship recipients were selected through a competitive application process and will attend the seminar at no cost. In addition to the $1250 fellowship covering the full-tuition for the seminar, participants from outside the Detroit metropolitan area will also receive up to $600 per person to help offset the travel and lodging costs. Fellowship recipients include:
One of the biggest challenges leaders face when trying to develop strategy is getting away from the day-to-day demands of running an organization. NAS’ three-day Strategy seminar gives leadership teams the tools, time and space to reflect on and discuss their organizations’ big picture.
This retreat-like working session will enable your team to create a shared vision and focus on how to best use your limited resources to achieve your mission and create a healthy organization. Outstanding faculty will lead you through case studies, class discussions and team exercises as your team analyzes and articulates what makes your organization unique and explore how to leverage that to deepen your relevance within your community.
Strategy is being presented in Nashville, October 28-30 for leadership teams from arts and culture organizations across the country. All participating teams will attend with an Organization Fellowship covering the $1250 team tuition. Additional travel support will be available to all teams from outside the Nashville area to help with the cost of travel and lodging. A simple application process will be used to identify a diverse mix of medium and large organizations. Applications must be received by August 27 to be eligible.
National Arts Strategies and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan have partnered to develop an invitation-only residential program for the top executives from some of the largest arts and culture institutions in the U.S. and abroad. The three and a half day retreat – Leadership and Convergence: Navigating Radical Change in Arts and Culture – will bring these leaders together to explore practical strategies for a new world of converging consumer interests, markets and industries.
Understanding that cultural leaders are working in a radically different environment than in years past, participants will work with an outstanding faculty team from the Ross School of Business to: Read the rest of this entry »
This Friday – May 21 – is the application deadline for Creative Alliances. Bring your team to this timely seminar to focus on two critical questions: under what circumstances are alliances appropriate for your mission, needs and environment? And, if undertaken, what form should these initiatives take and what factors will aid their success?
This two-day seminar will engage your team in case study analysis and class discussions that will help your team rethink your approach to collaboration. You will gain frameworks for identifying and analyzing potential alliances which you will apply in interactive exercises with your team. By the end of the session, your team will have the tools to more effectively identify and pursue mutually beneficial partnerships. See a detailed description of the seminar sessions »
