Management Training Programme April 2010 – March 2011
Independent Theatre Council
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David, he is reported to have said:
“It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn’t look like David….the sculptor’s hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone.” I believe that good training and professional development is a similar process. It chips away at what limits an individual to help reveal the talents and competencies within. The trainer or facilitator or coach needs to be highly skilled at their craft to create an environment where real growth is accomplished. They need to be generous with their expertise and adept at nurturing others. ITC have on offer a range of interventions delivered by such practitioners: a broad and diverse range of courses; one-to-one coaching; action learning sets; personality profiling; team effectiveness sessions and in-house consultancy. I hope that there is much here to encourage you to develop yourself and your staff. In the words of that other genius of renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci:
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” I look forward to seeing you happen. Danny Hearty Deputy Director
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Contents Foreword The Training Programme Training Room including How to book Individual, Team & Organisational Development including In-house consultancy Executive Coaching Action Learning sets
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The open courses and seminars have been divided into ten sections:
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• Management – People • Funding • Management - Resources • Producing and Touring • Working with Young People • Communications and Marketing • Legal • Finance • Leadership and Governance • Personal and Professional Effectiveness
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Further activities are developed during the year in response to changing needs and circumstances. Our newsletter Members Matters and www.itc-arts.org will carry all the latest details or please talk with any member of the ITC Team (pictured below).
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The Training Programme Full range of services
Because we believe good management practice and leadership can be learnt, built upon and improved, we have placed personal and professional development at the core of our activities. We offer:
• 50 different open courses • Over 100 days of courses each year • Action Learning sets • Executive Coaching • In-house courses and sessions • Consultancy for your staff or board • Personality Profiling • Team effectiveness sessions • Advice on professional development. This brochure gives brief details of all these opportunities. More information is available at www.itc-arts.org
Courses
All of our courses are run by experienced facilitators with expertise in their subject area, who use a range of interactive methods to encourage peer learning. To give you a clearer idea of the course best suited to your needs , we have indicated three levels:
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senior
Introductory: for those new in role or new to the subject; Intermediate: for those seeking to refresh or extend their existing skills; Senior: for those in a senior position or with extensive experience.
Training Room
Most of our activities take place in our Training Room at The Leathermarket in Central London. It is a bright and spacious room, conducive to learning and equipped to a high standard, with an extensive arts management library. It is also available for hire. Price: £300 + VAT per day. Full ITC members: £150 + VAT per day. Half day and hourly bookings are also possible.
How to book
To book a place on any open course, send a Booking Form together with a cheque made payable to ITC. Copies of the Booking Form are available from www.itc-arts.org To book in-house events, a place on an Action Learning set or Executive Coaching, please contact us directly.
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Individual, Team and Organisational Development We offer a range of services to help your organisation refresh and renew itself and to help your individual staff, your teams and the whole organisation to become more effective.
In-house Consultancy
We are able to facilitate Staff Days, Staff and Board events and/or Planning and Review sessions. All of our courses are possible in-house or tailor-made learning events can also be provided. We can work with you to design an appropriate intervention taking into account you organisation’s workload, culture and vision.
Inventory, Observer and Job Assessments. Then the team getting together for the facilitated session to learn more about their own team roles and those of their colleagues. Price: £500 + VAT per half day. Full ITC members: £250 + VAT per half day. Plus £23 per person for the online Belbin report or £8 per person for the Honey & Mumford booklet.
Price: from £500 + VAT per half day. Full ITC members: from £400 + VAT per half day.
• Belbin Team roles model* • Honey & Mumford’s Learning Styles *ITC are accredited by Belbin Associates to run sessions using the team role profiling system. This involves each member of the team completing the Belbin Self Perception
Cinderella’s Sisters - Red Earth - Photo: Robert Day
Team Effectiveness Sessions
If you want to enhance your individual and team performances, then a team building session can prove highly effective. We can offer a range of methods including:
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Individual, Team and Organisational Development Executive Coaching
Personality Profiling
Time Six one-hour sessions. Face-to-face or by telephone or a combination of both. Frequency: once a month is proposed. Further sessions can also be arranged.
Price: £140 + VAT per person.
Coaching provides a one-to-one opportunity for managers to focus on dealing with the day-to-day and more strategic matters that they encounter at work. Offering both support and challenge, it aims to help people clarify what they want and helps them identify their options, make choices and devise a plan. The client decides on the agenda and the coach is responsible for keeping the conversation productively on track.
Access one of the world’s leading personality tools. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument provides individuals with a powerful understanding of their own and others’ personality style. Through completion of a questionnaire and a personal feedback session, the assessment will reveal characteristics unique to each personality type and show how people can work together more effectively, improving communication and reducing conflict.
Full ITC members: £70 + VAT per person. Coach An Associate Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation (ICF). Target audience Primarily geared towards the needs of senior managers and executives; for those with a strategic as well as an operational role. Price: £600 + VAT for six sessions. Full ITC members: £300 + VAT for six sessions.
“The best thing I have done in terms of management training…well facilitated… it has given me a wider perspective and an increased understanding of the benefits of approaching problems from more than one point of view… an extremely powerful process.” Nick Lander, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
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Wuthering Heights - Tamasha - Photo: Manuel Harlan
Action Learning Sets
Action Learning gives people the chance to step outside the pressures of their leadership role and to view it from a different perspective. The action takes place back in the workplace and the learning comes from reviewing the action and its effect at a later meeting. The outcome is a change in behaviour or approach. Simple, practical, robust and effective are all words that describe Action Learning, it is often referred to as group coaching. A set provides a confidential space in which you can explore any issue that is significant for you. Within a distinctive set of conventions, you will learn a unique process for listening, questioning, diagnosing, challenging, inspiring, supporting and sharing feedback in order to generate new ideas and solutions to take away and try out.
“I have learnt a lot ... it has given me tools and confidence… knowledgeable, engaging, friendly trainer…I have already put measures in place for reform as a result.” Suzy Millar, Belfast Grand Opera
Target audience: Senior managers and leaders. You will work with a small group of five to seven peers. Time: The set meets for a day’s session five times over a year. Facilitators: Our facilitators are accredited and have extensive arts sector and management experience. The role of the facilitator is to act as catalyst and co-ordinator and to model the Action Learning process. Price: £650 + VAT for five sessions. Full ITC members: £500 + VAT for five sessions.
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Management - People These courses explore management techniques covering personnel systems, diversity and inclusion, motivation and team building.
New to Management
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Handling Challenging Behaviour and Volatile Situations
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Date: Thursday 24 June 2010
Motivation and Team Building Skills
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Date: Thursday 7 October 2010 Trainer: Alan Margolis
Trainer: Pauline Gladstone
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Trainer: Alasdair Cant
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Aim: To enable you to deal effectively and appropriately with challenging behaviour and volatile situations at work.
Aim: To provide an opportunity to learn how people could work more co-operatively and effectively in teams or groups so their organisations can achieve more successful outcomes.
Date: Thursday 29 April 2010
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To help you become better equipped to fulfil the role of manager in ways that enable you and those around you to flourish. Target audience: Those new or fairly new to managing people.
“This is really useful learning. Proactive. Experiential.” Kristin Fredricksson, Beady Eye
Target audience: Those who face potential confrontation, aggression and explosive situations in the workplace. They could be working with the public in face to face open settings; with young people in school and youth settings; vulnerable groups in closed institutions and/or with open access groups in social inclusion contexts.
Target audience: Any leader, whether department head, team leader or line manager. More team development… If you are looking for creative and inspiring ways to motivate your team, we can facilitate your staff development days using the Belbin Team Roles Model and/or Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles. Contact us on 020 7403 6698 for more information.
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Sinbad - Big Telly - Photo: Emma Critchley
Managing Stress in your Organisation
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Positive People Management
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Facilitation Skills inter
Date: Tuesday 18 January 2011
Date: Tuesday 12 October 2010
Date: Tuesday 22 June 2010
Trainer: Michèle Lazarus
Trainer: Madeline Hutchins
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Trainer: Danny Hearty and Michèle Lazarus
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To provide an opportunity to learn more about how stress affects us and our organisations. You will explore strategies to ensure that stress doesn’t take over your team and/or organisation.
Aim: To develop an understanding of best practices for people management, with a particular focus on your responsibilities and personnel systems suited to the specifics of your work environment.
Target audience: Those with health and safety responsibility, and anyone who would like to learn more about how to manage stress in the workplace.
Target audience: Those with responsibility for managing people in their organisation.
Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To explore and practice some of the fundamental skills needed to facilitate a range of groups and meetings. Target audience: Anyone who needs to facilitate events either within their organisation or externally, e.g. consultation events, staff away days, planning meetings etc.
“Many thanks for your time, effort and input. I thought the session was fabulous and I know all my colleagues enjoyed it very much. The whole approach was enthusiastic and infectious – kept it fresh and made the learning fun.” Mike O’Dwyer, DanceXchange
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Shun-Kin - Blind Summit & Complicite - Photo: Aoki Tsukasa
Management - People Handling Difficult Conversations
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Date: Wednesday 12 May 2010
Valuing Diversity
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Date: Tuesday 16 November 2010 Trainer: Mary McDowall
Trainer: Carolyn Graham
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To help you understand the meaning and value of diversity and inclusion, and its contribution to the success of your organisation.
Aim: To provide an opportunity to practice skills, develop strategies and increase confidence in tackling difficult situations and conversations with staff, colleagues, customers and stakeholders. Target audience: Managers and other staff whose jobs involve high levels of interpersonal communication.
Target audience: Those who want to refresh their knowledge of equality legislation, gain a better understanding of diversity and explore the benefits to their organisation.
Concerned about the legal implications of your decisions and policies? Everything you need to know about employing people is covered in Essentials of Employing People on 1 November 2010. See page 20.
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The Book of Beasts - Catherine Wheels Theatre Company - Photo: Douglas McBride
Funding These courses cover the key aspects of funding, including building skills and confidence in communicating effectively with funders and writing grant applications.
Effective Fundraising
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Date: Monday 12 April 2010 and Friday 10 September 2010 Trainer: Joanna Ridout Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To build your confidence in the value of your work and learn how to communicate that value effectively to potential funding partners. This course will concentrate on trusts, foundations and statutory sources. Target audience: Emerging theatre companies who want to increase their revenue stream and those who want to refresh their fundraising skills.
Creating Successful Grant Applications
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Date: Thursday 17 June 2010 and Tuesday 7 December 2010 Trainer: Joanna Ridout Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To develop your skills in writing successful funding applications, focusing mainly on trusts, foundations and statutory funding. You will be given the opportunity to explore how you can best make your case to meet funders’ priorities, catch their attention and increase your chances of success. Target audience: Those who are seeking to raise funds for their projects. Participants should have some experience of writing funding applications, even if these have not been successful.
Developing an Enterprising Approach
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Date: Thursday 30 September 2010 (pm) Trainer: Chris Gage Price: £80 + VAT ITC Full Members: £50 + VAT Aim: To help you to develop the strategy, skills and confidence to make commercially sound arguments to businesses and investors - whilst staying true to your values. Target Audience: Directors and managers with responsibility for strategy, who are looking for new ways of operating. This course will be of particular benefit to socially engaged companies.
“Just what I needed at this stage in my career.” Francesca Moseley, The Place
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Management - Resources These courses cover the key aspects of management, including project management, health and safety and IT resources.
Health and Safety at Work
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Project Management
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Date: Tuesday 4 May 2010 and Wednesday 3 November 2010 Trainer: Michèle Lazarus Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To equip participants with a range of tools and the skills required to manage a successful project. Target audience: Those new to project management and those who would like to learn how to more effectively plan and manage their projects.
One Small Step - Barbican Theatre - Photo: Kevin Clifford
Date: Monday 24 May 2010 Trainer: Phillip Brown Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To help you to manage health and safety effectively within a performing arts setting. The benefits of managing health and safety are explored by looking at relevant issues and examining the regulations that relate to them. Target audience: All staff involved in the safety management process and those responsible for promoting a positive culture towards safety at work.
“Good interactive style of working. Very interesting and informative to learn from real experiences.” Avril Hitman, Magpie Dance
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Battersea Arts Centre/1927 Theatre Company inter
Date: Tuesday 14 September 2010 Trainer: Alasdair Cant Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To allow you to acquire the relevant skills and learn techniques to effectively evaluate and assess your projects. Target audience: Managers, administrators, producers and individuals with responsibility for project management, business planning and development.
Starting a “This has been an intro absolutely fabulous Performing Arts Company course – well organised, beautifully Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010, resourced and a Tuesday 21 September 2010 and personable and well Wednesday informed facilitator.” 19 January 2011 Olusola Oyeleye, Collective Artistes
Trainer: Mary Loughran or Katrina Duncan Price: £75 + VAT
Feeble Minds - Spare Tyre - Photo: Patrick Baldwin
Evaluating and Assessing Arts Projects
Aim: To provide an overview of the essential skills required for setting up and running a performing arts company. Target audience: Anyone considering starting their own company, particularly those new to arts management as well as those who need a refresher course.
Training Package Special Offer
We would like to offer you the opportunity of booking on any four one-day training courses for the price of three. This special offer is available for ITC Members at just £300 + VAT. Price for non members: £480 + VAT.
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Hidden City Festival - Part Exchange - Photo: Simon Gomery
Producing and Touring These courses look at making work happen and getting it out there, covering everything from booking a tour to co-productions and touring abroad.
Tour Booking intro
Date: Friday 24 September 2010 and Friday 11 March 2011 Trainer: Roger Lang Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide essential information on how to successfully book tours of your productions in the UK, develop effective working practices and establish professional standards. Target audience: Those new to tour booking and those who feel they would benefit from reflecting on their practice and sharing their successes and challenges with others doing the same task.
Touring Abroad inter
Dates: Tuesday 7 May 2010
Outdoor and Site Specific Work
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Trainer: Gary Hills
Date: Thursday 20 May 2010
Price: £160 + VAT
Trainer: Pippa Bailey
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Aim: To enable you to acquire the necessary information and planning details required for touring abroad.
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Target audience: Companies or individuals who are new to, or thinking about, international touring and who wish to develop a clear view of the issues involved in working abroad.
Aim: To provide an opportunity to learn how to plan outdoor and site specific work, talk through project ideas and explore the pleasures and the pitfalls of this work. Target audience: Performers, directors, writers, producers, administrators and others interested in putting on site specific work.
“More than exceeded all my expectations, extremely positive and encouraging. Was expecting a lot of jargon and ‘don’ts’ – instead a very positive, open dialogue.” Vanessa Fagan, Company of Angels
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Building Palaces - Unfolding Theatre - Photo: Reed Ingram Weir
Rural Touring inter
Date: Tuesday 8 June 2010
Working on Co-Productions
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Trainer: Alex Murdoch
Date: Thursday 25 November 2010
Price: £160 + VAT
Trainer: Bryan Savery
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Aim: To enable you to explore the artistic challenges and practicalities of mounting a rural tour.
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Target audience: Companies, individual artists, writers, producers, administrators and anybody new to or wanting to develop an understanding of the issues involved in rural touring.
“Excellent overview of core concepts.”
Aim: To explore the artistic and administrative elements needed for a successful coproduction. Target audience: Managers who have been or will be responsible for planning, negotiating and running co-productions on behalf of companies and venues. It is beneficial but not essential, if you have past experience that you are willing to share.
Matthew Turtle, Crafts Council
Whether you are booking a tour or considering a coproduction, you will need to write a contract and negotiate your terms and conditions. Brush up on your negotiating techniques and gather some practical guidelines on developing contracts in our Negotiations and Contracts course on 29 September 2010 and 8 February 2011. See page 21.
Working as a Freelance Producer
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Date: Thursday 23 September 2010 Trainer: Pete Staves and Shabina Aslam Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide an overview of the producer’s role within the performing arts. You will explore the different models of working. Through looking at the advantages and potential pitfalls of each, you will learn ways of managing your productions more effectively. Target audience: New and emerging independent producers and existing producers looking for innovative ways of working. Those whose roles involve working with producers, may also find this course useful.
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Interiors - Vanishing Point - Photo: Tim Morozzo
Producing and Touring Passport to senior International Touring: Making the most of touring abroad
• access to a variety of relevant
Dates: Thursday 11 November 2010 and Friday 12 November 2010
• networking and making
This two day, London-based training event also includes an evening reception. Trainer: Gary Hills and Jane Claire Price: £350 + VAT ITC Full Members: £250 + VAT What is Passport to International Touring? An inspiring two-day course offering:
• peer group sharing and learning
• development of skills,
confidence and know-how
• support from experienced and respected practitioners
• an opportunity to meet
experts in international work and management
materials and resources.
What's in the programme? Among the topics and issues to be worked on are: contacts
• developing new markets,
including accessing funds for business development
• negotiation skills,
co-productions and other partnerships
• marketing and promotion • contracts and legal • budgets • practical logistics - including
planning, freight and transport, visas, carnets
Who is it for? • Managers with experience in international touring or those currently planning a tour abroad
• Those seeking to develop new overseas markets
• Well established performing arts organisations in the UK
Where and who is leading? The venue will be in central London. There will be a reception for attendees and a number of invited guests and companies working internationally during the evening of the first day. Jane Claire and Gary Hills will facilitate with some seminars and surgeries run by guest presenters.
• other artistic and technical considerations.
“Superb course: clear, detailed and the course leaders were approachable and clearly experts in this field.” Tracy Gentles, Clod Ensemble
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Farenheit Twins - Told by an Idiot - Photo: Edward S. Curtis
Looking at the particular skills, sensitivities and practical consideration involved in Young People’s theatre work.
Child Protection and Safeguarding
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Date: Tuesday 6 July 2010 Trainer: Simon Ruding Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide an introduction to safeguarding and child protection practices within the performing arts. The course will introduce Arts Council England’s document Keeping Arts Safe and provide guidance on the development of appropriate policies and procedures. Target audience: For anyone who works with children, young people or vulnerable adults.
Delivering Workshops and Managing Projects
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Date: Friday 2 July 2010 Trainers: James Robinson Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide a practical and specific insight into how an established company plans and delivers workshops for young people, both inside and outside the school environment. To explore how projects are negotiated, supported and evaluated.
How Long is a Piece of String - Oily Cart - Photo: Patrick Baldwin
Working with Young People
Target audience: Suitable for companies and individuals who are interested in creating and delivering work with young people, particularly those who are currently devising a programme. Bespoke Training tailored to your needs All ITC courses can be delivered in-house to your team and tailored to suit your specific needs. Please contact training@itc-arts.org for more information.
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Sugarwater - National Dance Company Wales Photo: Roy Campbell-Moore
Communication and Marketing Key activities here cover good marketing practice, press and public relations.
Introduction to Arts Marketing
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Dates: Thursday 16 September 2010 and Wednesday 26 January 2011 Trainer: Rachel Escott Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To introduce you to the essentials of good marketing practice and to help you get started, review current practice, refresh your skills and build your confidence. Target audience: Those new to marketing and those with some experience who may want to brush up on the basics and learn how a marketing sense can be brought into the core of their organisation.
Using IT to Engage with your Audience
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Introduction to Press Relations
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Date: Wednesday 21 April 2010
Date: Thursday 18 May 2010
Trainer: Marcus Romer
Trainer: Sue Rose
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To identify the online resources and systems available to assist organisations seeking to draw in new audience.
Aim: To introduce the basic principles of press and media relations and to provide tips on maximising opportunities for free press publicity and avoiding bad press.
Target audience: Anyone who wants to develop their understanding and confidence in using online resources to engage with new audiences. Those working in marketing and audience development will have the opportunity to look at how they can integrate online resources into their marketing plan and campaigns.
Target audience: Those working in performing arts organisations whose role may include press relations and publicity; marketing people who want to extend their role into press relations; arts administrators who are new to this area of work.
“Fascinating and reassuring to be in a room with people sharing similar experiences.” Zoe Donegan, Royal Shakespeare Company
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Venue and Production Company Relations
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Effective Front of House Management
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Audience Development
inter
Date: Thursday 13 May 2010
Date: Tuesday 15 June 2010
Date: Friday 21 January 2011
Trainer: Rachel Escott
Trainer: Joanna Ridout and Bryan Savery
Trainer: Kemi Bamidele and Carmen MorrisCoulson
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To equip your front of house team with the skills to create a consistently excellent audience experience.
Aim: To provide practical marketing and communication techniques to help you engage with various groups and promote your work to a wide audience.
Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide an opportunity for production companies and venues to work together to explore the challenges and practicalities of booking tours, and identify useful communication techniques to build effective working relationships. Target audience: Producers, general managers, administrators, box office staff, programmers and production managers of small to medium scale performing arts companies and venues.
Target audience: Front of house, box office, duty and catering managers as well as all those who want to develop themselves and their teams in order to improve the audience experience.
Target audience: Those seeking to develop new audiences and sustain lasting relationships with their current audiences and stakeholders.
Bespoke Training tailored to your needs All ITC courses can be delivered in-house to your team and tailored to suit your specific needs. Please contact training@itc-arts.org for more information.
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The Moon The Moon - Unlimited Theatre - Photo: Robert Day
Legal Running an arts organisation requires knowledge of a wide range of legal issues. These courses provide comprehensive guidance on what you need to know and the opportunity to learn from the experience of other organisations.
Using the ITC and Equity Contract
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Dates: Thursday 15 April 2010 and Wednesday 1 December 2010
Brilliant - Polka Theatre - Photo: Keith Pattison
Trainer: Jackie Elliman Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To enable you to use the ITC/Equity Agreement for the successful management of your company. To provide a practical understanding of the Agreement’s terms and conditions, in the context of employment legislation. Target audience: Managers, administrators, stage managers and executive directors of performing arts organisations who already use the ITC/Equity Agreement, or those who are considering doing so.
Essentials of Employing People
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Date: Monday 1 November 2010 (am) Trainer: Jackie Elliman Price: £80 + VAT ITC Full Members: £50 + VAT Aim: To provide an overview of the legal essentials that you need to know about as soon as you have people working for you. Target audience: Anyone who wants to know more about legal aspects of employing people.
If you are looking for guidance on implementing human resource policies and best practice in people management, then book on our Positive People Management course on 12 October 2010. See page 9.
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Richard Alston Dance Company - Photo : Hugo Glendinning inter
Negotiations and Contracts
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Dates: Monday 4 October 2010 (am) and Tuesday 15 February 2011 (am)
Date: Wednesday 29 September 2010 and Tuesday 8 February 2011
Trainer: Jackie Elliman
Trainer: Charlotte Jones
Price: £80 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £30 + VAT Special price for this course
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To help you decide what legal structure is right for your organisation and whether charitable status is appropriate for you. Target audience: Organisations considering registering as a Limited Company or applying for charitable status. It is also suitable for those wanting a refresher on how to run their company or a guide through the labyrinth of new structures.
Aim: To enable you to conduct successful negotiations and to formalise the results into simple, effective and legally binding contracts.
Othello - Frantic Assembly - Photo: Manuel Harlan
Incorporation and Charitable Status
Target audience: Relevant to anyone who has to negotiate contracts in their work. Though it starts with basic principles, it would be useful to anyone who wants to improve their negotiating skills.
“We both got such a lot from the day and have passed some tips on to our colleagues.” Sara Gunn, Audiences Northern Ireland
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Finance
“Thank you for supplying a great trainer, whose pace, delivery style and approach was very informative, practical and fun.” Anne-Marie Cofie, Dream Arts
Effectively managing your project will help you save money and meet your project objectives. Combining this course with Project Management, taking place on 4 May and 3 November, will give you the skills and knowledge to achieve results. See page 12.
Financial Management
Project Budgeting intro
Dates: Thursday 3 June 2010, Thursday 28 October 2010 and Thursday 27 January 2011
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Date: Wednesday 5 May 2010 and Thursday 4 November 2010 Trainer: John Cammack Price: £160 + VAT
Trainer: Maureen McCulloch
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Aim: To enable you to become more confident and skilled in using budgets to achieve your project’s objectives.
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To demystify accounting procedures and jargon, giving participants an understanding of how to use their own financial systems, for planning and reporting, with more confidence. Target audience: Anyone who has found themselves doing the job by default and wants to be sure that they are doing it as well as they can. It would also be of interest to those who do not actually administer finance, but need to understand what is happening in their systems.
Target audience: Those from performing arts organisations with little financial background, who need to know how to manage the budget process for projects and how to interpret budgetary information. Ringside - Arts Admin Productions & Mem Morrison - Photo: Dan Burn-Forti
These courses will help you understand your organisation’s finances, maintain accurate records and manage your business more effectively. The areas covered here include accounts, tax, financial procedures and the art of project budgeting.
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Lola: The Life of Lola Montez - Trestle Arts Base Photo: Keith Pattison
End of Year Accounts - Using Accounts and Accountants
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Date: Tuesday 22 February 2011
Tax, NI and VAT
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Dates: Monday 4 October 2010 (pm) and Tuesday 15 February 2011 (pm) Trainer: Kevin Dunn
Trainer: Maureen McCulloch
Price: £80 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £50 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To discuss tax and National Insurance issues as they relate to employers within the performing arts.
Aim: To enable you to understand end of year financial statements (of your own organisation or others) and to be better equipped to deal with auditors. Target audience: Those with the task of compiling end of year accounts and dealing with auditors. Managers who need to read and understand financial statements.
“The course was perfect for enabling me to understand my objectives, where I am along the road. Great information, leaders and venue.” Steve Davis, Spectacle Theatre
Target audience: Arts managers who deal with tax and National Insurance, especially those without the support of a qualified professional within their organisation.
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Black Watch - National Theatre of Scotland Photo: Manuel Harlan
Leadership and Governance These courses look at some key competencies of leadership and developing others while maximising your own performance. In addition we offer a range of courses to support the functions and effectiveness of your management board.
Creating a Green Action Plan
Business Planning for the Future
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Date: Tuesday 28 September 2010 Trainer: Pippa Bailey Price: £160 + VAT
senior
Date: Thursday 27 April 2010 Trainer: Larry Reynolds Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To prepare your organisation for the challenges it will face over the next ten years: climate change, peak oil, global economics and population growth. Target audience: Chief Executive, chairs of boards and those with responsibility for the strategy and direction of their organisation.
“Very friendly, lots of examples and stories to back up experience – made it real.” Amy Walton, Salisbury Arts Centre
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To inspire you to think creatively about business development and planning. Provides the nuts and bolts of how to write a business plan, while making useful connections with project management, resource planning and funding opportunities. Target audience: Those who are responsible for producing a business plan as well as those involved in project management, budgeting and fundraising. It is also useful for teams of people trying to work co-operatively and share responsibilities.
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Circus Space - Photo: J C Gray
Coaching and Mentoring Skills
senior
Transform your Meetings
senior
Leading with an Open Mind
senior
Date: Tuesday 5 October 2010
Date: Wednesday 26 May 2010
Date: Thursday 21 October 2010
Trainer: Danny Hearty
Trainer: Lois Graessle
Trainer: Madeline Hutchins
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: To equip you with a strong understanding of the skills and characteristics of an effective coach/mentor combined with essential insights into the benefits of a coaching style of management.
Aim: To provide practical skills and tips to help make meetings more efficient and satisfying – and less frequent!
Aim: To explore and explain how learning, self-knowledge, not-knowing, openmindedness, new ways of thinking, dialogue and diversity all play a part in successful leadership and management.
Target audience: Managers at any level can benefit, especially those in a senior position seeking to draw out the potential in key people throughout their organisation or department. Also for those wishing to use coaching or mentoring in their interactions with others.
Target Audience: Those with responsibility for planning and running meetings and conferences – of teams, networks, consortia and other gatherings. The focus will be on leadership more than on participation.
Target audience: Any leader, manager or entrepreneur interested in self-development by deepening and diversifying their own ways of seeing and thinking and involving others.
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The Glass Mountain Polish Residency - Trestle Arts Base Photo: Keith Pattison
Leadership and Governance senior
Date: Wednesday 24 November 2010 Trainer: Miles Harrison Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To equip you with a real understanding of the nature of strategy and provide a framework of techniques for forming and delivering strategic plans that make a positive difference. Target audience: Those with a clear strategic element to their management role (or the potential for it) who wish to demystify the idea of strategy and discover some powerful and practical strategic planning methods.
Recruiting and Inducting New Board Members
senior
Dates: Wednesday 9 February 2011 (am) Trainer: Tesse Akpeki Price: £80 + VAT IITC Full Members: £50 + VAT Aim: To highlight best practice in recruiting and inducting new board members. You will also explore how to drive your organisational mission strategically and productively with your board and during meetings. Target audience: Ideal for senior managers, the Chair of the board and other board members, as well as those with responsibility for recruiting board members.
Candoco - Photo: Hugo Glendinning
Strategic Planning
“The day was perfectly pitched and met all our objectives …it was accessible, enjoyable and so informative…we have all been left feeling enthused and inspired by the excellent day.” Rachel Evans, Sadler’s Wells
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Financial Management for your Board
Governance and Legal Responsibilities of Trustees
intro
Date: Friday 18 June 2010 and Thursday 24 February 2011
Dates: Thursday 17 February 2011 (am) Trainer: Jackie Elliman
Trainer: Jeremy Smeeth Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To impart the practical skills needed to manage financial accounts as a board member. Target audience: New board members of an arts organisation and those employees seeking to develop their understanding of financial management at board level.
inter
“Good. I was expecting more of a “this is how to do it” approach but the “this is what you can use” angle we got was much more useful. Very simple tools that can be invaluable.”
Price: £80 + VAT IITC Full Members: £50 + VAT Aim: To help you understand the legal responsibilities of being a board member. Target audience: Board Members and also Chief Executives, managers and others who work closely with their board.
Emma Rees, Unlimited Theatre
ITC Board Bank
ITC Board Bank is a resource for performing arts organisations seeking to attract new board members or broaden its skills base. Visit www.itc-arts.org for more information.
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The Last Resort - Strange Face - Photo: Mark Dean
Personal and Professional Effectiveness Self development is an ongoing process and an investment that benefits both you and your organisation. These courses explore a range of approaches including time management, assertiveness, managing stress and networking.
Assertiveness at Work
intro
Date: Monday 7 June 2010 Trainer: Michèle Lazarus Price: £160 + VAT
“Extremely friendly and put us at our ease – we were able to speak frankly.”
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Perri Blakelock, English Touring Theatre
Target audience: Anyone who feels that they could achieve more if they could just be more confident and assertive.
Aim: To increase your confidence and help you develop the skills to act more assertively.
Managing Time and Tasks
intro
Dates: Thursday 1 July 2010, Friday 22 October 2010 and Wednesday 16 March 2011 Trainer: Danny Hearty Price: £160 + VAT ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT Aim: To provide time away from your usual work environment, allowing you to explore ways of managing competing work priorities more effectively by using time as a tool. Target audience: Open to all, though with most relevance for those who have some control over their own workload. The course assumes little or no knowledge of time management theory and practice.
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The Grand Hotel - Ladder to the Moon - Photo: Chris Gage
Taking and Writing Minutes
intro
In partnership with The Centre
Networking and Presenting Yourself
intro
Date: Monday 5 July 2010
Date: Tuesday 23 November 2010 and Wednesday 9 March 2011
Trainer: Michèle Lazarus
Trainer: Charlotte Jones
Price: £160 + VAT
Price: £160 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
ITC Full Members: £100 + VAT
Aim: An opportunity to learn how to take and write up both formal and informal minutes, what to include, what to leave out and how to ensure minutes are accurate.
Aim: To identify, explore and enhance the skills and techniques needed to build and maintain strong networks. Through participative exercises you will improve your confidence and personal effectiveness.
Target audience: Those who take minutes as part of their work. It is intended for those who have little or no experience, or for more experienced workers who want to hone their skills.
Target audience: Anyone involved in presenting themselves and their organisation externally and seeking to maximise their effectiveness in both formal and informal networking opportunities.
“People sharing experiences made it a lot easier to get to detail/reality of points being made.” Jo Walsh, Manchester International Festival
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ITC Training Courses 2010 to 2011 2010 APRIL 2010
Venue and Production Company Relations 15-June
p19
Effective Fundraising 12-April
p11
Creating Successful Grant Applications 17-June
p11
Starting a Performing Arts Company 14-April
p13
Financial Management for your Board 18-June
p27
Using the ITC and Equity Contract 15-April
p20
Facilitation Skills 22-June
p9
Using IT to Engage with your Audience 21-April
p18
p8
Creating a Green Action Plan 27-April
p24
Handling Challenging Behaviour and Volatile Situations 24-June
New to Management 29-April
p8
MAY 2010
JULY 2010 Managing Time and Tasks 01-July
p28 p17
Project Management 04-May
p12
Delivering Workshops and Managing Projects 02-July
Project Budgeting 05-May
p22
Taking and Writing Minutes 05-July
p29
Touring Abroad 07-May
p14
Child Protection and Safeguarding 06-July
p17
Handling Difficult Conversations 12-May
p10
SEPTEMBER 2010
Audience Development 13-May
p19
Effective Fundraising 10-Sep
p11
Introduction to Press Relations 18-May
p18
Evaluating and Assessing Arts Projects 14-Sep
p13
Outdoor and Site Specific Work 20-May
p14
Introduction to Arts Marketing 16-Sep
p18
Health and Safety 24-May
p12
Starting a Performing Arts Company 21-Sep
p13
Transform your Meetings 26-May
p25
Working as a Freelance Producer 23-Sep
p15
Tour Booking 24-Sep
p14
JUNE 2010 Financial Management 03-June
p22
Business Planning for the Future 28-Sep
p24
Assertiveness at work 07-June
p28
Negotiations and Contracts 29-Sep
p21
Rural Touring 08-June
p15
Developing an Enterprising Approach 30-Sep
p11
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2011 OCTOBER 2010
JANUARY 2011
Incorporation and Charitable Status 04-Oct
p21
Tax, NI and VAT 04-Oct
p23
Coaching and Mentoring Skills 05-Oct
p25
Motivation and Team Building Skills 07-Oct
p8
Positive People Management 12-Oct
p9
Leading with an Open Mind 21-Oct
p25
Managing Time and Tasks 22-Oct
p28
Negotiations and Contracts 08-Feb
p21
Financial Management 28-Oct
p22
Recruiting and Inducting New Board Members 09-Feb
p26
Managing Stress in your Organisation 18-Jan
p9
Starting a Performing Arts Company 19-Jan
p13
Effective Front of House Management 21-Jan
p19
Introduction to Arts Marketing 26-Jan
p18
Financial Management 27-Jan
p22
FEBRUARY 2011
NOVEMBER 2010 Essentials of Employing People 01-Nov
p20
Tax NI and VAT 15-Feb
p23
Project Management 03-Nov
p12
Incorporation and Charitable Status 15-Feb
p21
Project Budgeting 04-Nov
p22
Governance and Legal Responsibilities of Trustees 17-Feb
p27
Passport to International Touring 11 & 12 Nov
p16
p23
Valuing Diversity 16-Nov
p10
End of Year Accounts - Using Accounts and Accountants 22-Feb
p29
Financial Management for your board 24-Feb
p27
Networking and Presenting Yourself 23-Nov Strategic Planning 24-Nov
p26
Working on Co-productions 25-Nov
p15
DECEMBER 2010 Using the ITC/Equity Contract 01-Dec
p20
Creating Successful Grant Applications 07-Dec
p11
MARCH 2011 Networking and Presenting Yourself 09-Mar
p29
Tour Booking 11-Mar
p13
Managing Time and Tasks 16-Mar
p28
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The Independent Theatre Council (ITC)
is the management association and political voice of around 600 performing arts professionals and organisations. ITC provides its members with legal and management advice, training and professional development, networking, regular newsletters and a comprehensive web resource. Additionally ITC initiates and develops projects to enrich, enhance and raise the profile of the performing arts.
We are the major provider of professional development for the sector in the UK:
• Have been training people in arts management for more than 25 years
Run over 100 courses per year and a broad range of other professional development activities
• Employ a highly skilled staff team and a pool of more than forty experienced trainers and consultants
• Provide Executive Coaching and peer support through facilitated Action Learning sets
• Offer consultancy, training and team effectiveness sessions in-house • Place great value on active peer learning and adapt courses as necessary to make the needs of the individual learners paramount
Independent Theatre Council
12 The Leathermarket • Weston Street • London SE1 3ER Tel: 020 7403 6698 • Fax: 020 7403 1745 Email: training@itc-arts.org • Website: www.itc-arts.org