Managing a hybrid team
Some timely advice on building a fair and equitable workplace in the world of hybrid teams. Principles to Remember:
Do
- Set clear priorities and objectives so that everyone on your team focuses on what’s most important.
- Be inclusive. Even if some people are in the office, hold all-team meetings online to be fair to everyone.
- Reflect on your biases and predispositions. Ask yourself, “Are there people on my team that I have not given a fair shake to and what would it look like if I did?”
Don’t
- Be rigid. The future right now is unpredictable, and everyone needs to be flexible.
- Ignore signs of stress from your team. Be empathetic. Help people prioritize what’s important.
- Forget about fun. Look for ways to enjoy connecting with your team and bring some playfulness into the workday.
Second jobs in the creative economy
Thought provoking piece from the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre discussing the issues relating to holding multiple jobs in an ever more precarious employment context for the creative and cultural industries.
… it appears that many people working in the creative economy are already particularly exposed to the necessity of “adapting and adjusting”. They have to face the high level of precarity characterising creative work. The response to the crisis should not only be about adapting and adjusting, but also re-thinking the creative economy to put the wellbeing of the workers at its centre.
Sian Vasey
I can’t let this week finish without a tribute to the wonderful Sian Vasey. She was, as many have said, irrepressible and irreplaceable. I was fortunate to meet her many years ago and she had great warmth and a generous spirit with a steely determination. My thoughts go to her loved ones and friends. 2020 is certainly tough going.
Slow Ways and accessible walking routes
During lockdown 700 volunteers mapped out a huge network of walking routes across the country. Led by Dan Raven-Ellison who gloriously describes himself as a guerrilla geographer and creative explorer. This is a brilliant resource if like me safe local exploring has been nourishment for heart, body, and mind.
Slow Ways is a project to create a network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain’s towns and cities as well as thousands of villages.
Walks with wheelchairs provides information on routes that are suitable for people with access challenges
The walks on our database have been tried and tested by ourselves, (or those knowledgeable about accessible routes in the great outdoors. If you can recommend a walk that you think is suitable for those with access challenges, then please login and share it with us.
Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair online
It’s fantastic that this year’s Photobook Fair is available online and focuses on the very relevant theme of Photo-activism. A brilliant range of events all available online – it’s tomorrow so don’t miss it!
A River Waits Reply (13th October – 30th November)
This project is both a product of, and commentary on, the bewildering times we are living through. It is an online screening programme created as a partnership of seven international arts organisations
A River Waits Reply presents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year. It is a year that has invited new forms of exchange at a distance, and a long overdue reckoning with deep social and political inequities that call for new forms of solidarity.