Q & A with Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville Executive Director Joy Young
February ushers in a new beginning for the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville as Joy Young takes the reins as the program’s new executive director. Military brat, performing artist, and tireless advocate for the arts, Young is a cultural leader who successfully combined art and administration as the South Carolina Arts Commission’s director of administration, human resources, and operations for fourteen years.
Under the Mediterranean Sun
In the period that followed the U.S. Civil War, American artists who wished to be considered seriously, had to study abroad. Some were encouraged by their teachers to refine their painting techniques and seek new sources of inspiration.
Bob Hills: Self-Taught Clockmaker
At the age of ninety-four, Bob Hills measures time by the number of clocks he’s made. Eighteen more to reach his goal of one-hundred. “Not sure I’ll make it,” he chuckles.
Questions to Ask an Agency During a Sales Meeting
Sales meetings are usually the time and place for a marketing agency to put on their best show to convince a prospective client to give them a big, interesting project, along with bags of money. But a better use of time would be for both parties to treat the meeting as an opportunity to test out the relationship and start to build rapport with one another.
Start With Why
Start with Why. Let it live on the landing page of your website, at the beginning of an interview process, on the front cover of the employee handbook, in staff meeting content and training sessions, in client proposals. Most importantly, let it come alive in the workplace culture. Your “Why” is why the people you hire fall in love with your company. In business, we call your Why, a company’s purpose statement – although I assure you it’s hardly just a statement. Think of it as the heartbeat of your organization.
Worlds Away: Iceland’s Mysterious Beauty
Tom and I have chosen to go to Iceland in the shoulder season, when the temperatures average from a low of 40° F (4° C) to a high of 50° F (10° C). We also want to avoid the summer tourists. Iceland is slightly smaller than the state of Kentucky with a population of less than 333,000, sparsely populated to say the least.
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