Leadership, culture and values

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Having the right organisational leadership, culture and values is key to success.  Arts and cultural organisations are values based organisations and adaptation and change needs to stay  true to these values for example, the prioritisation of environmental sustainability.

The following questions may help you to work out which tools to explore from the selection available:

  • Is there clear leadership of your strategy/plans to evolve and change?
  • Are you externally aware and focused on understanding your audiences and other key stakeholders?
  • Do you have the right mindset to enable you to evolve and change? 
  • Do you have a culture of inclusivity and participation, where staff, volunteers, board etc are engaged in planning consider that their input is respected?
  • Does the organisation operate in an environmentally sustainable way?

Core individual resources

The resources listed below in type and alphabetical order are the key resources to use as you work through this issue.

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"Taking risks in times of adversity" by Adrian Ellis

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A discussion of the role of risk in arts organisations arguing that it's a neglected area of arts management and that a perverse consequence is that arts organisations are often more rash than they need to be.

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An eight stage model for managing change

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An eight stage model for managing change, John Kotter from the Business Survival Toolkit.

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Culture Change Dynamism and Diversity

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“Culture Change Dynamism and Diversity. A museum manager’s guide to working smarter in difficult times” by Maurice Davies and Helen Wilkinson. A chapter called Making the Change provides a list of suggestions about making and supporting positive organisational change.

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How resilient is your business?

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A tool to check if you are externally focused and keeping up with changes in your environment.

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Julie’s Bicycle - environmental resources

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A digest of environmental resources includes a glossary and information about different approaches, standards and awards and carbon calculator tools for creative companies

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Where are you on your journey from good to great

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"Where are you on your journey from good to great” by Jim Collins

Relevant collated collections of resources

These folders of resources listed below in alphabetical order might be useful if you want to delve deeper into any of these associated subjects.

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Leadership

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Organisational culture

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Values

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