How to manage client expectations successfully
More often than not, poorly managed expectations are to blame for why you’re feeling stressed out, aren’t getting as much repeat business and referrals as…
Category: Strategy
How to build an inclusive community through conscious storytelling
How do you create a thriving and inclusive community? I’ve spent a lot of time trying to tease apart the elements of what makes a…
The power of ‘What Else?’
Accredited LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator, Lindsay Dunbar unlocks the positive power of 'what else?' in times of change.
Useful tools and techniques for prioritisation and effective working
Expert doer and self-starter Kathryn Welch offers her top tips, tools and techniques for prioritisation and effective working.
The cost of money for your business
If you're thinking about taking on external funding then it's time to consider which kind of funding is right for your business or project and what th…
Taking stock & planning for the future
Big and very overdue change is afoot and it’s now integral to our survival that we pay attention and start thinking differently to be prepared for w…
Five things to do if you’re an artist who is pivoting into facilitation
Making the move from artist to a facilitator to keep the money coming in? Get Sandy's top tips to make it work fast and well.
Six things to do if you rely on bigger organisations for work
Sandy Thomson shares things every freelancer or self-employed person should know if they tend to rely on bigger organisations for contracts or commis…
Adapting your creative output
Few of us like change, especially when it’s not of our making. But we all have to adjust in order to survive and thrive.
Creative collaboration for the soul
In this moment of enforced isolation collaboration is the key to staying grounded, unconsciously social, positivity productive and to get those creative juices flowing for…
Navigating the new landscape for artists with Eamonn Maxwell
Hear from fine art curator and mentor Eamonn Maxwell for an insightful and rather sweary conversation exploring how artists can continue work in this …
Don’t book your Christmas lunch until you read this!
Those emails and flyers telling you to book now for your Christmas do are already arriving in our inboxes (can you believe it!?), but don’t book any…
The Journey
Some one once said to me ‘Have a compelling vision and don’t take no for an answer’. So begin's Rachael Brown's story of our first three years l…
