Stephanie Hanson
Becoming Entrepreneurial About Our Professional Development
Posted by Nov 19, 2010 1 comment
Stephanie Hanson
The other day I was standing in the check-out line at my local grocery store, when I glanced at the bright yellow cover of GOOD Magazine. Coincidentally, the fall issue is subtitled The Work Issue, which you can read online as well. Since Americans for the Arts and the Emerging Leaders Council just released our 2009 Emerging Leader Survey Results & Analysis report last week, I thought the magazine would be a good read, so I picked it up.
In the Emerging Leader Survey Analysis, our most surprising finding demonstrated that while the majority of survey participants expressed a strong desire to make arts administration their long term career, a much smaller percentage of them feels they have the opportunities for advancement within their current jobs. This means the following needs to happen: arts organizations need to make professional development for their employees a priority. (Some are already doing this really well) Simultaneously, individual arts administrators need to begin creating their own opportunities to learn the skills they need to either move up in their current organization or move on to a higher position in another arts organization. If neither of these happens, the arts sector stands to lose skilled leaders to take the field into the next generation.
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