Friday Selection Box: 14th May 2021

Using storytelling to communicate a business idea

A timely short piece for people who are thinking about how to sell their new idea/plan to staff, boards or stakeholders.

Five ways to get buy-in for your creative ideas

As we look to welcome people to our buildings there are lots of ideas circulating about how we could work differently in the future.  Here are some useful tips about how to sell your idea to people who may just want to just go back to how things used to be.

 Coaching circles

A coaching circle is not about having a personal coach sit with you and walk through your problems one-by-one, but a circle that acts almost as an alchemical crucible in applying deep listening to the case giver.

Lockdown practices arts organisations should probably continue but won’t even though we know they now can…@ScotteelsFat

A series of interesting tweets posing questions about how far the sector has really changed and what we might keep from our experiences of the last 18 months.

Organisational Relevance

Short but thought provoking piece. Interesting to note it was written in 2021 but feels even more relevant now. Two things stand out for me:

Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy

In a transparent, diverse and open organization, management can get the hell out of the way.

Project Art Works shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2021

Huge congratulations to all at Project Art Works.

Project Art Works is a collective of neurodiverse artists and activists. Our programmes evolve through creative practice and radiate out to awareness raising in the cultural and care sectors, promoting more diverse representation in programming and relevancy for audiences.