UPCOMING FREE INDUSTRY PROGRAMMING

As the trade organization for the Country Music industry, we believe it is our responsibility to provide you with opportunities to enrich and enhance your own professional and personal development. Through workshops, trainings, seminars, and Q&As, we hope to provide a well-rounded development program that provides the resources you need and serves each of our membership categories. We feel it is important for our members to also hear from each other, so we have reserved quarterly sessions presented by a CMA member. Below, you’ll find all currently scheduled events.

For more information, including dates, times, and registration links, please visit www.CMAworld.com/programming. Note: all sessions are free and will be held virtually unless otherwise noted.

BOOK SMARTS, STREET SMARTS, OR LIFE SMARTS? UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR LEADERSHIP!

• Even more than experience, knowledge, and intelligence, a key driver of leader success is Emotional Intelligence. In a rapidly changing industry like music, the ability to understand one’s own emotions and the emotions of others and manage those to create effective relationships is a skill worth learning! This is especially true in times of stress and rapid change.

INTERVIEWING AND HIRING AS TOOLS FOR JOB RETENTION

• Interviewing a candidate for hire should provide you with a glimpse to see how successful the candidate will be in the job and in your work environment. In fact, you should use the period beyond the job offer—the onboarding and orientation period--as an extension of the interview. We will show you how to use the interviewing process as a way to evaluate a job candidate for success. Learn to use the interviewing, hiring and onboarding process in a way that works for you.

THE FOUR C’S OF REMOTE LEADERSHIP

• Our COVID and post-COVID world has shifted the way we work and get work done. This demands new ways of thinking about how we lead. The good news is that we don’t have to change our natural ways of leading, we just need to use technology effectively, and be more intentional and focused on how we interact and communicate.

NEW FACE OF LIVE

• As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, this panel will discuss thoughts and insights from a tour manager, production manager, and artist manager as to what it will take to do live shows in the near future. 

ENABLING INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY THROUGH THE 4 STAGES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

• Employees and teams innovate and work best when they bring their full selves to work and feel safe doing so. Psychological Safety ensures people feel included and can challenge the status quo to bring forth creativity and innovative ideas.

GETTING THE BEST FROM YOURSELF AND OTHERS – LEVERAGING MOTIVATION FOR LEADERS

• What do you love to do, and how does that compare to what you must do to be successful? What do you know about the motivations of your employees and teams? Based on clear research and simple models, this workshop will help you understand how to motivate yourself and others, with the goal of aligning work to passion. 

MANAGING PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK

• Performance feedback is critical to the success of the employee, to the team and to you. Setting and reinforcing performance expectations will ensure that all of your employees know what is expected of them to do their job well. This workshop will provide an overview of the importance of feedback, using performance feedback for employee growth and development, establishing performance conversations, and much more.

USING COACHING SKILLS TO TRANSFORM YOUR LEADERSHIP (2 PARTS)

• Top-down leadership is no longer effective in today’s fast-paced music industry. The complex world of the 21st Century calls for new approaches to leadership. Today, leaders need to focus more on leading and strategizing rather than managing small details. They want a method that helps team members hold themselves accountable and develop. Successful leaders align employees around mission and values. This workshop will cover the current role of leadership, challenges surrounding leadership, how to listen meaningfully, and more.

DIVERSITY AND TOURING

• In what started out in the 60s as an industry that was primarily comprised of white males, we have seen a progressive shift over the past couple of decades to become a very diverse industry. In this session we will discuss the challenges, changes, and opportunities that individuals have faced in the live entertainment industry, along with charges as to how we can continue the charge for greater diversity moving forward. 

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Although many of our careers in the live entertainment industry are technical in nature, working on personal and professional development are very important parts of our growth. This panel will discuss options and ideas for opportunities to grow your career, along with a discussion on diversifying your income during uncertain times. 

IMPLICIT BIAS ALGORITHM WORKSHOP

• Implicit Bias Algorithm is designed to examine unconscious bias through the lens of brain science and trust building. Based on Culture Shift Team’s Diversity Breakthrough training series, the workshop provides a deeper dive into the origins and outcomes of associations and bias and the negative impact bias can have on building and maintaining trust with internal and external stakeholders. Participants also learn how to counteract bias through a series of trust building exercises and personal commitments that may be continued with internal and external partners after the workshop is concluded. With an in-depth study of majority privilege, this course equips leaders with the tools to understand and manage bias in internal practices and external relationships. 

MULTICULTURAL LENS FOR CULTURAL AGILITY TRAINING

• Skilling up on cultural agility enables individuals, teams and organizations to adapt approaches to work effectively, to serve customers and solve problems. Based on leading data-driven cultural models, the Multicultural Lens (MCL) Cultural Agility Training offers a simplified framework for navigating the hidden rules of culture. These rules dictate how we define respect, how we view leadership, how we represent ourselves, how we approach conflict and how we effectively communicate with one another. Participants learn to identify meaningful differences and potential gaps in cultural expectations that have the potential to create tension or erode trust. 

REBUILDING YOUR FINANCES

• The pandemic took a great toll on the finances of a lot of people in our industry. With emergency funds and savings accounts that have been left fairly depleted by loss of work and income, this will discuss ideas as to how individuals and families can start to rebuild financially. 

TOURING + BALANCE

• Our counselors will discuss the importance of mental health balance while facing the physical, emotional, and mental challenges of being on the road. 

CONSCIOUS CONFLICT AND MAINTAINING COMMUNITY AT WORK

• How we manage conflict directly impacts the health and psychological safety of our workplace communities. Harms like microaggressions impact job performance and job satisfaction. Traditional anti-harassment policies and procedures often fail to provide a constructive way to address harms that harder to detect, like microaggressions. Community accountability provides a new approach to disrupting these DEI derailers and building trust. Community Accountability is an approach for conflict resolution that provides a new model for addressing harms in a way that promotes trust and inclusion.