Management Fundamentals is a series of six interactive trainings to help arts and culture leaders tune-up their managerial and coaching skills. 

Covering a variety of topics from communication styles to managing difficult conversations, participants have the flexibility to work through the entire series or to select the sessions most relevant to them. 

For more information and to register for upcoming sessions, click here.

Each of ABA’s Signature Research Initiatives presents the high-level findings of our multi-month studies devoted to a specific challenge arts and culture organizations face. Explore those findings and all of the associated resources here.

The Advisory Board for the Arts regularly helps members with special projects that they lack either the time, the skillsets or the contacts to execute on their own. While we are not consultants and we cannot take on every size and scope of project, we can help members with carefully scoped projects that leverage the member network and the research skills of our staff.  Learn more about this service here.

The Advisory Board for the Arts offers biweekly arts and culture executive benchmark surveys on priority focus areas that are top-of-mind to leaders. Benchmark yourself against your peers by participating in surveys and gaining insights from the results. All data is published in our ABA Spotlight newsletter. All benchmarks are presented in reverse chronological order and grouped by topic.

The Advisory Board for the Arts offers a live webinar series with arts and culture leaders from around the globe. Each webinar is scheduled as topics arise, often in connection with ongoing signature and custom research projects. Explore our library of past webinars and check to see what webinars are coming up.

Access our Tools and Resources page for more information about:

• Management Fundamentals

• Audience Surveys

• Inclusion Assessments

• Shared Purpose Workshops

• Digital Objects Workshops

• CADAC Data Analysis

• Social Media Requests

And additional paid services:

• Strategic Planning

• Arts360