In my last blog post, we saw how the students in my class at the Yale School of Music, 21st Century Arts Leadership: Inspiration, Innovation, Collaboration, are learning how to cultivate a positive mindset through three research-based interventions: flow, the growth mindset, and SPIRE. In order to adopt new ways of thinking, it is not enough to know the theories. …
21st Century Arts Leadership: 3 Ways to Cultivate a Positive Mindset
How do today’s arts leaders cultivate the positive mindset in order to lead through challenging times? That’s the question that we are now exploring in my 21st Century Arts Leadership class at the Yale School of Music. In my last post, I shared my model for what today’s arts leaders need for personal leadership-the ability to lead yourself before you …
21st Century Arts Leadership: Embracing Classical Music Today
My class at the Yale School of Music is off to a great start! Entitled, 21st Century Arts Leadership: Inspiration, Innovation, Collaboration, the class explores how today’s artists can take charge to effect change and make classical music a vital part of our culture. Through innovative collaborative projects, students will explore how to lead change in the arts landscape. So …
Music and Happiness: How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone with a Positive Mindset
Every summer, I spend one week entirely devoted to piano performance at pianoSonoma, a chamber music festival that brings together serious amateur musicians like myself with world-class professional musicians for a week of collaboration and performance in the beautiful Green Music Center, at Sonoma State University. The festival is led by founders and co-artistic directors, Jessica and Michael Shinn. I …
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 …
How Music Entrepreneurs Stay Positive: 4 Mindset Strategies to Help Through Tough Times
My coaching groups at Yale are going strong! Students appreciate having a confidential forum where they can share successes and challenges with a trusted group of peers and learn new strategies for creating sustainable careers. With the semester winding down in a few weeks, our students, especially those who are graduating, are finding it a challenge to keep their spirits up …
How To Adopt the Attitude of Success Part II: Raise Your Energy in 7 Steps
My last blog post on how to adopt the attitude of success introduced the 6 different levels of energy– the different attitudes that you might have about your career– showing the thought that is associated with each level: Stress-Inducing Levels: Level 1: Worried Level 2: Frustrated Motivating Levels: Level 3: Managing Level 4: Service Level 5: Opportunity Level 6: Flow Here …
Group Coaching Lessons for Success-Oriented Music Entrepreneurs: Share, Learn and Grow
This semester, I launched 3 career groups at the Yale School of Music as an experiment to see how group coaching could facilitate learning and growth for entrepreneurial musicians. My intentions were to provide: a positive, supportive, safe judgment-free environment that promotes learning through self-reflection and joint problem solving in which musicians can share with like-minded peers learn tools to help …
The Mindset of Success: Four Pillars for Today’s Music Entrepreneurs
Note: A longer version of this post appeared in I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. It is a fascinating, challenging time to be a musician. Traditional institutions struggle to remain relevant as new technologies and new ways of performing, disseminating music and interacting with audiences are changing our very world. A new model and more entrepreneurial model of success is emerging. What …
How Arts Leaders Manage Challenge: Change Your Perspective
Rising arts leaders face a host of challenges including too much to do with too little time, constant deadlines, not enough money, time or staff to carry out the great work, conflicting priorities and having to respond to numerous constituencies. In these situations, it’s easy to focus on the negatives. Yet happily, there are some very effective strategies to …
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