Career Advice
Why collaboration is overrated
Collaboration is a buzz word, fashionable with grant agencies and lauded as creative dynamite. But there's a place for those…
Social media dos and don'ts for arts businesses
If you want to use Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to promote your art or arts organisation, you need to use…
How to take a leap
If you can overcome fear 2016 could be a 'leap year' in more than a calendar sense.
Welcoming a newbie to the office (from the archives)
Giving new recruits a login and showing them where the toilets are is not enough to make them productive employees.
Nine tips to win public art commissions
Public art commissions are a rich source of income for artists but public funding makes them notoriously bureaucratic. Cut through…
28 back-to-work resolutions that will improve your life
As offices reopen and projects resume, make resolutions that enhance your work life rather than worrying about your waistline.
Ten tips to improve your superannuation
Will you ever be able to retire? The arts industry is filled with people with inadequate superannuation who need these…
Five ways you can develop resilience even when life is crap
There are no quick fixes to becoming resilient, but these five easy steps may make your working life a little…
Nine ways to cope with being a casual
Writers and artists have always had erratic work. But the casualisation of the workforce means arts managers and curators do…
Becoming location independent
Life as a digital nomad takes a little more than a laptop and a Lonely Planet guide.