Project & Career Planning
For Creative Professionals
Audience for this Course
Review• Resume (Professional or other)• Writer: 2x samples of your work• Actors: 1x head shot• Artist: 3x examples of work• If you have a current website: screen shot of
homepage + URL• 5x challenges you are facing• 2x creative blocks you are faced with• Your creative career goal
*ANYTHING YOU FEEL YOU NEED HELP WORKING ON
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’
Albert Einstein
Agenda1. Review: Purpose2. Introductions3. Introvert vs. Extrovert4. Competition & Motivation5. Creative & Career Goals6. Wishing7. Mind Mapping8. Grow9. Time10.Networking11. Market12.The Magic of ‘If’
Allyson – Who am I. What I do.
Participants – Who are you?
?
INTROVERT OR EXTROVERTLife of the party…
…or solitary figure.
What happens when you are a little bit of both?
Extrovert
• I am the life of the party• I don't mind being the center of attention• I feel comfortable around people• I start conversations• I talk to a lot of different people at parties
*Wikipedia
Introvert
• I am quiet around strangers• I don't like to draw attention to myself• I don't talk a lot• I have little to say
Ambiversion?
*Wikipedia
What am I & Why it Matters
Signal Patterns
Personality Patterns survey can help you pinpoint and explore the unique characteristics of your personality.
COMPETITIONYou are not in competition with me…
…or anyone else for that matter.
This is a safe environment to free yourself to take creative risks.
‘In my experience... achievement depends on willingness to accept a challenge, take risks, make errors and the belief that one has the control over the outcomes.
Achievement is hindered by perfectionism, fear of failure, and the belief that control, credit and/or blame belong to someone else.’
P. Theroux
Personal Competition
• It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before
‘Competing with others is arrogance; competing with yourself is confidence!’
Unknown
How can anyone compete against uniqueness?
You are unique!
MOTIVATIONI challenge you to engage in activities that you desire most…
… versus what you think is possible.
Motivation is defined as a motive to act. If there is a motive, there is action.
No motive, no action.
‘At 211˚ water is hot.
At 212 ˚ it boils and with boiling water comes steam and steam can power a locomotive.
It’s that one extra degree that makes all the difference.’
Unknown
Internal vs. External Motivation
• At times there are tasks that you do because you want to do them
• At other times there are tasks that you do because someone else wants you to do them or rewards you for doing them
• Recognizing the differences between those two types of tasks will help you understand your motivations
Personal Factors of Motivation
COMPENSATORY EFFORT
COMPETITIVENESS
CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS
EAGERNESS TO LEARN
FEARLESSNESS
FLEXIBILITY
INDEPENDENCE
INTERNALITY
PERSISTENCE
PRIDE IN PRODUCTIVIT
Y
SELF-CONTROL
STATUS ORIENTATION
WISHINGA wish is a hope or desire for something…
…which gives you an action towards your objective.
The objective is what you want, the action is what you do.
ID Creative & Career Goals (Objective)
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
TimeGoal Setting & Common Mistakes
‘I WISH’ + Action Words = Goals/Objectives!
Star in a Feature film
Write a Feature
film
Complete my Life’s work
Brainstorming
Motivations for Goals/Objectives!
Brainstorming
• Generate as many ideas as possible
• Differ Judgment• Quantity of ideas is
more important than quality
• include wild ideas new & different
approaches ideas that build
on previous suggestions
suggestions that have worked in the past
Star in a Feature film
Write a Feature
film
Complete my Life’s work
MONEY
FAME
FULFILLMENT
ENJOYMENT
Building a Map to Success
• Prioritize your Goals (Objective)
• Map Goals (Objective) to Motivation
• Mind Map it!
Selection
Mind Maps – A Graphical Organizer
WHY MIND MAPS WORK• Avoid thinking linearly• Creative and new way of
thinking
*MindMapping.org
• More realistic • Help get the big picture • Right brain
Making a Mind MapStep 1: Start at the center of the page
Step 2: Don´t be serious!
Step 3: Free associate
Step 4: Think as fast as you can
Step 5: There are no boundaries
Step 6: Don´t judge too fast
Step 7: Go, go, go....
Step 8: Add relationships and connections
Mind Map Rules
DEMO – Mapping Creative Goal
The ONE True Barrier
• Fear– of the unknown– of looking foolish– of failure– of success– of being dumb– of being bad– of people not liking my work
DEMO - Examining Barriers
GROW‘The question is not what we look at…
…but what we see.’ Thoreau
Expand your horizons and all the world will be your stage.
PerspectiveThe Doodle Exercise
Doodles
Expand Your Horizons
Get a Mentor Play!
Ask Questions Find Learning in unusual places
Examining Growth
TIMEThe surest way to be late…
…is to have plenty of time.Leo Kennedy
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
‘There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.’
John Hall Gladstone
Managing Time
• Get Organized• Write it Down!• Review Your Tasks• Create Realistic Deadlines• Finish before Starting Something New• Be Active, Not Reactive• Stay Focused• Prioritize
Prioritize
URGENT NOT URGENT
IMPORTAN
TUrgent & Important Important but NOT Urgent
NOT IMPORTAN
T
Urgent but NOT Important Not Important & Not Urgent
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Steven Covey
Critical Success Factors
1. Establish the Goal (Objective)2. Ask Yourself ‘What is essential to
achieving this goal?’3. Identify the measure of success4. Identify Time Line5. Monitor and Evaluate
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If you had to pay someone to do your work, what would it cost?
If you paid $200 for a class that lasted 4 weeks for 2 hours, what is the actually cost of the class?
If you get an opportunity, can you afford to take it?
Wants vs. Needs
NETWORKINGIt takes time and effort to develop a relationship…
…and no time or effort to destroy one.
When will you realize the world is a small place?
‘Rolodex power.
Your power is almost directly proportional to the thickness of your Rolodex, and the time you spend maintaining it. Put bluntly the most potent people I've known have been the best networkers -- they "know everybody from everywhere" and have just been out to lunch with most of them.’
Tom PetersThe Pursuit of Wow
The World is a Small Place
‘…successful networking is all about building intimate, sincere relationships based on mutual generosity, not duplicity…’
Keith FarrazziNever Eat Alone
How to Win Friends & Influence People
1. Smile!2. Ask a Question3. Listen4. Business Cards5. Say the Person’s Name
Work smarter, not harder. Ask for help.
Who Do I Know?
• Make a List!• What can you do for them?• What can they do for you?
Examining Networking
MARKETIf you don’t get noticed…
…you don’t have anything.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
‘If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying "Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday," that's advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that's promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor's flower bed, that's publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that's public relations. If the town's citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they'll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that's sales.’
Unknown
Reach out and touch others
• Call• Email• Submit Online• Snail Mail
– Printed Materials
Create ways for people to connect with you• Websites
– Vanity Domain Names– Hosting & CMS– Email Address Do’s & Don’ts– Social Network Sites– Industry Specific Sites
Tips
1.Focus on Your Core Competencies 2.Develop a Clear and Concise Message 3.Create Collateral Materials 4. Join Networking Groups 5.Network Every Day 6.Develop Alliance Partners 7.Don't be Afraid to Try 8.Brainstorm with Others
30 Circles – more or less
Examining Marketing
THE MAGIC OF ‘IF’You are not _____________ …
…but if you were, what would it be like?
‘If you cannot find what you are looking for, create it.’
Allyson Ingerman
www.theexchangegroup.org
Supporters
• State Theatre School of Acting – Location• SPEC – Use of Equipment• Skills to Success – Use of Equipment• La Madeleine’s – Breakfast
– 9828 Great Hills Trail #650, Austin (512.502.2474)
Visual Thinking
• Over 70% of our nuerons deal with vision.
• Solving Problems with Pictures
Free Tools• Mind Mapping Software
– FreeMind - http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page• Personality Traits Mapping
– http://www.signalpatterns.com/• Online Graphic Editing Software
– Aviary - http://aviary.com/tools/peacock– Adobe Photoshop - https://www.photoshop.com/
• Free Collaboration Tools– Google (Docs, Calendar) – http://www.google.com
• Free Microsoft Templates– Microsoft Online -
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/FX100595491033.aspx• Free Content Management Systems
– Wordpress – http://www.wordpress.org– Joomla – http://www.joomla.org
• Buying Domain Names– Go Daddy – http://www.godaddy.com
References• Mind Map References
– http://mindmapinspiration.co.uk/• Career Solutions for Creative People: How to Balance Artistic
Goals with Career Security– By Ronda Ormont, ISBN 1581150911, 9781581150919
• Doodle Exercise– Jenni Idea Management: http://www.jpb.com/doodles/exercises.php
• How to Win Friends and Influence People– Dale Carnegie, ISBN 0613918444, 9780613918442
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People– Stephen Covey, ISBN 0671708635
• 10 Tips for Marketing Your Business– Rob Engleman, 2002
• Ted.com– Talks Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play
AppendixI. Summary of Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
– http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/mind-maps-examples.htm