SEARCH RESULTS FOR CREATIVE WORKFORCE IN AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS ARCHIVE : 164 ITEMS FOUND

Author(s): Shue, Jordan
Date of Publication: Oct 01, 2015

What are employee resource groups, and how can the arts community partner with them as a primer to developing deeper, more strategic, and longer lasting relationships with businesses? This tool-kit outlines the basic tenets of employee resources groups, and provides tips and examples for collaborative programming.

Author(s): Dalton, Aaron
Date of Publication: Sep 01, 2015

Arts partnerships frequently offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. Americans for the Arts is producing a series of eight essays that will explore and illustrate the different types of benefits that arts partnerships can bring to your company. This particular essay makes the case that the arts help to stimulate employees and encourage the critical thinking needed to advance business goals.

Author(s): Dalton, Aaron
Date of Publication: Aug 01, 2015

Arts partnerships offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. In fact, 79% of businesses agree that the arts increases name recognition, and 74% of businesses say the arts offer networking opportunities to developing businesses (2010 BCA National Survey of Business Support for the Arts). The second essay in The pARTnership Movement essay series, Put Your Company in the Spotlight, shares stories of how some of America’s top companies partner with the arts to build market share, enhance their brand, and reach new customers.

Author(s): Lord, Clayton
Date of Publication: Jun 02, 2015

First essay in the book Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities featuring an introduction by Americans for the Arts CEO Robert L. Lynch. The

Author(s): Restrepo, Felipe Buitrago
Date of Publication: Jun 02, 2015

Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at changes in the American economy and the workforce and the role the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years and beyond. The

Author(s): Dalton, Aaron
Date of Publication: Jun 01, 2015

Arts partnerships frequently offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. Americans for the Arts is producing a series of eight essays that will explore and illustrate the different types of benefits that arts partnerships can bring to your company. This particular essay makes the case that art partnerships can be a secret weapon in your arsenal to give your company and your community an edge in workforce recruitment and retention.

Author(s): Americans for the Arts
Date of Publication: May 01, 2015

Even in the current economy, businesses are still searching for innovative ways to recruit and retain employees. Programs that allow employees to bring their values to work are good investments. The arts are a wonderful catalyst that can help shift perceptions, embrace diversity, build team spirit, foster creative thinking and improve communication. This tool-kit will provide information on how and why the arts help engage employees.

Author(s): Lewis, Sarah
Date of Publication: Mar 01, 2015

"The path to a great achievement—whether it is a technological innovation or a masterwork of art—is almost never direct. On the contrary, creative breakthroughs often come after wrenching failures. That idea animates The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, a book by Sarah Lewis, an art curator who is completing her PhD at Yale. Based on 150 interviews with artists and explorers as well as scientists and entrepreneurs, the book is neither a self-help manual nor a bundle of case studies. It’s a meditation on accomplishments that come from

Author(s): Dr. Osborne, T.L.
Date of Publication: Feb 01, 2015

"Why Am I Writing This Book? There are many aspects of Hip Hop culture that exceeds beyond just the beat, a dance, or a catchy hook. The Hip Hop Lectures (Volume 1) & The Hip Hop Lectures (Volume 2) are books that were created to make a connection between the past and the present, as it relates to Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop culture has been able to accomplish so much in such a very short period of time, most of which includes the bridging of generational and racial gaps locally and internationally. The hope; however, is that the culture continues to grow and evolve to a point where

Author(s): Canwell, Adam; Geller, Jason; and Stockton, Heather
Date of Publication: Jan 19, 2015

Global organizations today navigate a “new world of work”—one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human resources. More than 3,300 organizations from 106 countries contributed to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2015 survey, assessing the importance of specific talent challenges and their readiness to meet them. This report explores 10 major trends that emerged from our research, which reflects four major themes for 2015: leading, engaging, reinventing, and reimagining.

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