TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2017

Location Desart Training Room

Day 1 // Stream - Fundamentals

8:30 9:00 am Registrations and welcome tea and coffee

- Introduction to the professional development learning framework.

9:00 9:15am // Celebrating Success

Speaker: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
Strong management is critical to arts centres. Day 1 will commence with an interactive session where we share the
management successes of the past year and have an opportunity to reflect on whats working.
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9:15 10:45pm // Financial Reports and Record Keeping Part A
Speaker: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
We will go over the basic financial reports + income & expenditure records, cash records, creditor and purchases
records, wages and superannuation records, a register of property, tax returns, calculations, contracts &
agreements.
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10:45 11:00 MORNING TEA
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11:00 12:00 // Financial Reports and Record Keeping Part B
Speaker: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
A continuation of the topics from the morning session.
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12:00 12:30pm LUNCH
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12:30pm 1:30pm // SAM Overview of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and Art Centre Tracking
Tool
Speaker: Bronwyn Taylor (Desart)
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1:30 2:30pm // Compliance Made Easy
Speakers: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
Although critical, compliance can be overwhelming. We are going to run you through a few key checklists and
reporting responsibilities that will ensure you feel on top of compliance instead of burdened by it. Topics include:
ACNC, ORIC, DGR, PAYG & Super.
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2:30-3:00pm AFTERNOON TEA
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3:00 4:30pm // Desart AGM
4:30pm Day one summary and close
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WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2016

Location Desart Training Room

Day 2 // Stream - Management

8:30 9:00 am Registrations and welcome tea and coffee

- Feedback from Day 1 sessions
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9:00 10:00am // Special Guest
Our speaker will be someone working at the cutting edge of the art centre world stay tuned!
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10:00 10:45am // Negotiation Skills
Speaker: Barbara Clifford (The Time Tamer)
Using practical negotiation frameworks this session will focus on tips on how negotiate relationships with other
agencies, research and universities, gallery relationships, subcontractors and photographers.
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10:45 11:00 MORNING TEA
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11:00 12:00 // Managing Stakeholders and Communication
Speaker: Joanna Henryks (Matrix)
Following on from the negotiation skills session, we will look at best practice around communication, initiating
relationships and record keeping for effective stakeholder management. Well use a framework for mapping
stakeholders to ensure we can prioritise stakeholders efficiently and effectively. Not all stakeholders are created
equal!
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12:00 12:30pm LUNCH
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12:30pm 1:30pm Risk Management
Speakers: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
Reputation, culture, finance, fraud, complianceall of these are real risks facing the viability of non-profit
organisations every day. Reviewing these risks with your Board will enable you to identify all compliance and
operational risks within your organisation and assess the likelihood, impact and how to mitigate them.
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1:30 2.30 // Marketing what are you marketing?
Speaker: Joanna Henryks (Matrix) and Indigo Holcombe-James
This session will provide an opportunity to reflect and think through the key products you are selling and how to
market them in a competitive market. What is the unique offering of your art centre and what makes it different to
the art centre down the road? Are you marketing artists and art? Developing emerging artists? Are you marketing
culture or tourism? What key strategies do you have and what to you need to market your art centre successfully.
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2:30-3:00pm AFTERNOON TEA
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3:00 4:15pm // Curating for Desert Mob 2018.
Presented by Desart and Araluen
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4:15 4. 30pm Day two summary and close
THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2016

Location Desart Training Room

Day 3 // Employment
8:30 9:00 am Registrations and welcome tea and coffee
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9:00 10:00am // Special Guest
In this session we will focus on recruitment and retention of Aboriginal staff. The presenter works in an allied field
and understands the rewards and challenges first hand.
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10:00 10:45 // Conversation Skills Around Managing Staff
Speaker: Sally Clifford (Matrix) and Philip Watkins (Desart)
Some topics are hard to broach. In this session we will examine the practical skills youll need to ensure you can have
high quality conversations when you need to.
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10:45 11:00 MORNING TEA
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11:00 12:00am // Recruiting, Retaining and Managing Arts Workers
Speaker: Marlene Chisholm (Desart) and Sally Clifford (Matrix)
This session is designed like a checklist of the HR responsibilities of managers. We will go through art worker
induction, performance management, connecting skills from the arts worker PD week back to the Art Centre as well
as contracts and payslips.
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12:00 12:30pm LUNCH
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12:30 1:30pm // Applied Good Governance for Indigenous Boards and Managers
Speaker: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
While art centre managers come and go, art centre boards are a constant and can provide strong support in
relationship building with both community and external stakeholders. Well examine the key behavioural outcomes
that indicate good governance and some practical strategies you might consider to engage the board in relationship
building.
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1:30pm 2:30pm // Succession Planning Planning a Good Exit for the Manager and the Art Centre
Speakers: Sally Clifford (Matrix)
Succession planning begins as soon as you start the job. Well explore how good succession planning can feed into
attracting a great new manager, ease your exit (when its time) and what practical steps you can take now.
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2:30-3:00pm AFTERNOON TEA
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3:00 4:30pm // Wrap up and future needs
Speakers: Sally Clifford (Matrix) and Philip Watkins & Hannah Grace (Desart)
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4:30pm Close
MEET SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS

Sally Clifford Matrix on Board

Sally is the General Manager of Northern Australia Matrix on Board. She has over 20 years experience in managing
arts and cultural development programs, organisations and festivals in Queensland and Western Australia. She has
particular experience working with non-profits, in the arts, arts/health, Indigenous and youth sector. Before working
at Matrix, she was the Director/ CEO at Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation in Balgo and as such is passionate
about innovation, effectiveness and sustainability for service delivery in remote and Indigenous communities.

Joanna Henryks Matrix on Board

Joanna is based in Alice Springs. She has over 20 years experience in business, management, communications,
research, facilitation and consulting roles across public, private and academic sectors. She has taught marketing
communications at a tertiary level for over a decade while consulting with the private sector in a range of industries
from retail to fast moving consumer goods and the telecommunications industry. Her qualifications include a PhD
(Consumer Behaviour) an MBA (AGSM), Graduate Diploma in Counselling, and a Bachelor of Business.

Barbara Clifford The Time Tamer

Barbara Clifford has spent over 20 years working in time precious industries such as film, hospitality and
marketing. She has always had a passion for creating order out of chaos; to make sense of things. She is based in
Alice Springs and delivers training via skype and online training programs to a range of businesses including
Australian Institute of Management courses at CDU. Barbaras professional experience has included contracts with
small business, not for profits, Aboriginal organisations, media, marketing, aged care and health services.