Leadership
This series looks at challenges facing public media leaders and best practices for guiding their organizations through change.
Kelly Martin / Current
To create space for great ideas to blossom, set aside 10% of your work week
Spending time building relationships with your staff and engaging on their turf will change how they look at you. They’ll recognize you ...How to prepare your public media station to operate under the ‘new normal’
Start planning how to set up operations for when staff can begin working from your station's offices, studios and newsrooms.‘We needed to work to change the culture of media organizations’
Jill Geisler and Cathy Trost, co-creators of the Newseum's training program for media leaders, describe their approach for building a workplace culture ...Arizona’s Cronkite School will manage CPB’s editorial leadership training
The two-year project will train 100 editors to “strengthen their ability to lead public media’s growing newsrooms,” CPB said.Why a mantra is the best gift for a creative team
Defining the work your station does in specific terms simplifies decisions and creates a framework for staff to understand how and why ...Letter from the executive editor: What does pubmedia need from its leaders?
"Effective leadership emerges at the intersection of vision and humanism."After ‘transformative’ experience in executive training, leadership fellows face scarcity of jobs
"So much depends on who you know, and who knows you."Training opportunities for ‘rising stars’ aiming for executive ranks are growing
Upcoming initiatives include a two-year training program from CPB for newsroom leaders.Diverse revenue streams for stations depend on agility, board support
A retiring CEO shares lessons from her career on the frontlines of building revenue.Culture that enables harassment demands direct response from pubmedia leaders
"I believe the day is coming when public media leaders move to address problematic workplace experiences as they’re happening — or, even ...
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