In our last post, we explored how the students in my collaborative project class at the Yale School of Music (“YSM”) identified their audiences and designed projects to meet the needs of their audience members. The next step was to test out and share prototypes of their projects with the intended audience members to see how well their projects met …
Entrepreneurial Projects at the Yale School of Music: What Today’s Audiences Need from Classical Music:
Each fall, I teach a wonderful class at the Yale School of Music (“YSM”) entitled, Collaborative Leadership To Advance Creativity, Innovation and New Opportunities in the Arts. My class uses the experiential semester-long collaborative project to teach graduate music students how to create innovative solutions to problems in the classical music field. Our focus is on meeting the needs of …
Astrid Baumgardner on Coaching Creatives: How to Find Your Most Fulfilling Career Path as an Artist
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The SPIRE of Career Planning: How to Build Happiness and Optimism with Meaningful Career Goals
My first post on the SPIRE of career planning explained how to embrace a positive mindset around your career planning and then conduct a personal assessment of your purpose, values, passions, and strengths. In this post, we will explore how to incorporate those elements to set meaningful career goals and create an action plan. The result will help you to …
The SPIRE of Career Planning: How to Build Happiness and Optimism into Your Career Part 1
Career planning may feel daunting so here is something that can help to make the process feel fulfilling and motivating, build resilience and lead to greater optimism: The SPIRE model of happiness. Let’s explore the SPIRE of Career Planning! Career Planning is a great way to clarify what you want to achieve professionally and how to get there. My method …
Strengths and Happiness Part 2: The SPIRE of Strengths
How do you feel when you are doing something that you are really good at and that you love? Probably pretty terrific! That’s because you are using your strengths: the talents that energize you. Research from positive psychology demonstrates that identifying and using your strengths enhances your capacity for greater well-being and happiness. Strengths connect closely to Tal Ben-Shahar’s research-based …
Strengths and Happiness Part I: How Strengths Help You Live Your Purpose
What are you good at? What energizes you? What motivates you to achieve your big goals? Welcome to strengths! Strengths are a major component of positive psychology, the science of what makes life worth living. The strengths-based approach of positive psychology helps individuals to identify and focus on the positive aspects of their lives. In fact, research demonstrates that identifying …
Flow and SPIRE Model of Happiness: How Flow Boosts Your Happiness
Think back to the last time that you were doing something: that you love, where you were totally immersed in this activity and in the zone, totally confident, free of judgment, feeling tremendous joy and so absorbed in what you were doing that time was going by and you didn’t even notice it. How do you feel? Chances are that …
Happiness and Balance: How Leaders Use the SPIRE Model for Life Balance
Does life balance give rise to greater happiness? How can the science of happiness help to achieve happiness AND balance? These are the questions that I explored with the alumni of OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive Program at the recent Leadership Intensive Alumni Forum in Los Angeles, California. These non-profit arts leaders have been through an incredibly demanding period starting with the …
Podcast: “Cracking Into Creativity” – Why Astrid Baumgardner Leapt After 25 Years And Now Coaches The Rest Of Us On Doing The Same
I am honored to be featured on the Life Leaps Podcast where I share how I made the life leap from law into my wonderful career as a career and executive coach, author, trainer, speaker and faculty member at Yale! The episode also highlights the mindset of success and why we should unlock and cultivate our inner creativity when making …