| Day 1: Friday, September 29 |
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. THE CHALLENGE
Leadership in the Arts
How does strategy transform organizational and personal mission, vision and values into effective performance? How does the individual achieve success in an environment where resources are constrained and our partners are also our competition? What do we expect from our leaders at the start of the 21st century? |
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. STRATEGY
Strategic Change in Arts Organizations (I)
How does strategic thinking and analysis translate into action? How does the leader reach personal fulfillment while conceptualizing and implementing strategy for the organization? |
| Day 2: Friday, October 13 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. LEADERSHIP
Finding the Balance: Leadership and Management
Where do leadership and management intersect? What different professional roles does the individual play as s/he seeks to lead the organization into strategic change? |
| Day 3: Friday, October 20 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. RESOURCES
Leadership in a Time of Limited Resources
Budgets in plain English, cash flow, how to allocate in a time of limited and changing resources while leading for the future. |
| Day 4: Friday, October 27 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ENVIRONMENT
Strategic Change in Arts Organizations (II)
Does the institutional environment allow for strategic change? What are our constraints and opportunities? Where does leadership take place in the organization? |
| Day 5: Friday, November 3 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MEASURING PERFORMANCE
Collegial Leadership
Understanding differences in personal and organizational terms to encompass incentives and controls, performance measures, recognition and motivation, and personal leadership growth. |
| Day 6: Friday, November 17 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
Personal Leadership Style: Managing for Change
How do the values, competencies, and styles of the individual develop a personal commitment to leadership? How does that commitment translate to others? |
| Day 7: Friday, December 1 |
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. LAND MINES IN LEADERSHIP
Crises of Leadership: Founders, Boards, Successors
What happens when institutional and personal leadership affect the organization’s growth? What players are responsible? How can they work together? And how can they responsibly prepare for the future? |
| Day 8: Friday, December 8 |
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CLOSURE
Closing the Circle
Facilitated group sessions of individual student projects assigned on Day 2. Discussion, feedback, and advice. Guest alumnus reports on personal and organizational leadership change. Closing exercise. |
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| Day 9: Friday, December 15 |
8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MOVING FORWARD
Breakfast, Facilitated Session, and Graduation
The insights of the ALI process are applied to participants’ own organizations and are shared with their executive directors.
Refreshments, networking, and graduation. |
