Overview:
This four-hour session condenses 21 years of frontline money management — the good times, the bad times, and everything in between — into a ten-stage roadmap, designed to help you navigate the sometimes baffling, sometimes overwhelming landscape of creative industry finances with more confidence.
During the session, you will be guided through a series of practical approaches, simple strategies and gentle provocations — all with the aim of empowering you to create, adapt, and make good use of financial processes that suit your needs and circumstances.
By the end of the session, you’ll feel less daunted by your financial responsibilities, and better able to stop them being a drain on your time and resources — especially if you’re not getting paid to deal with finances in the first place.
Suitable For:
Anyone involved with the financial management of their own work, or the work of their organisation, or someone else’s organisation, such as…
- Freelancers trying to get everything done with no team, or just a tiny team, to share the burden;
- Artistic Directors doubling as their own General Managers, without really knowing how to carry out the demands of that role;
- Leaders required to oversee their organisation’s financial matters, including reporting to colleagues, Boards and stakeholders, but who may not always feel they know what they’re talking about;
- Directors and Trustees with statutory responsibilities to uphold, who want to support their executive team (and each other) as well as they possibly can;
- Anyone who can’t afford to bring in regular finance support, but who also can’t afford to spend the majority of their own time on administration;
- Anyone who can afford that support — or who might be the person providing that support — and wanting to make that process as helpful and efficient as possible;
- Anyone who panics everybody else knows more about financial management than they do — and worries they’re doing a worse job than everybody else is.
Approach:
The session itself combines the trainer’s presentation of a ten-point plan (including some screen-sharing of slides) with ring-fenced time at the end for participants’ questions and for discussion.
