Active Listening, Business Acumen for Artists - An Online Learning Log Elaine Rumboll Active Listening, Business Acumen for Artists - An Online Learning Log Elaine Rumboll

Active Listening Skills

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•Here are a couple of points to provoke your thinking from Paul Abrams' workshop on Active Listening Skills.

LISTENING FOR LEARNING

Listen to understand the other’s thinking, assumptions, and point of view, you don’t have to agree

•Check understanding

–Ask questions “This is what I understand…is this right? What do you mean when you say…?

–Ask for examples

•Suspend judgement. Probe for another point of view. Remember there are many right answers

•Ask : are there any other views? What are we missing? What will happen if we go in this direction?

•Listen for the thinking behind the other’s actions

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Pricing your Product Elaine Rumboll Pricing your Product Elaine Rumboll

Storytelling around pricing

Storytelling Around Pricing presentation Dear All

Sorry this came in a bit late - but here is the full Storytelling Around Pricing presentation that we did not have time to finish. Please read through it. There are some great ideas for not only pricing your product, but in how to package it too.

If you have any questions, both Elske and I will try to answer!

See you on Monday

Isla

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Business Acumen for Artists - An Online Learning Log Elaine Rumboll Business Acumen for Artists - An Online Learning Log Elaine Rumboll

Why Business is Suspicious of Giving

I have just had the most extraordinary experience. I know some of the people at iCommons and at the request of someone interested in what we were doing in SA re the Business Acumen for Artists came up with the idea of creating an open source on-line learning log for what we were learning on the programme. So I posted a link to the blog and invited anyone interested to check out what we were doing and to comment or at the least, give their insights from other countries. I also thought it would be an amazing way of linking in the aritsts from 15 different disciplines to other like-minded individuals. This evening I saw a post that someone had made which said that they were suspicious of this and that it may well smack of self-advertising. What's in this for me in terms of my career is beyond me but still it made me think about why Business remains suspicious of entering this open source arena. And I think perhaps, that it may well be for the exact same reason that after reading this I thought, what is the point of sharing if people are only going to look for the underbelly. At least with a going concern, you can be measured on tangible profits and realisable shareholder value. No wonder Big Business is wary of the amorpheous place of giving freely - if the repose is suspicious and laden with undirected, unsolicited vitriole. If the Open movement is really going to succeed, perhaps more care needs to be taken with understanding how to embrace the gifts that those in organised environments give freely. Until then, it will remain a place of watching uneasily from both sides. Here is the link to the post:

http://www.icommons.org/articles/business-school-course-for-artists-to-succeed#c460

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