Mark McGuinness Motivational Masterclass

Mark McGuinness Masterclass - How to motivate creative people (Including yourself)
Using motivation to enhance your creativity
Research demonstrates what creative people know instinctively – motivation is critical to the quality of creative work. Designed for Creatives and artists of all kinds this half day practical masterclass teaches creatives to achieve sustainable success using the four most powerful types of motivation at different stages of the creative process.

The session is highly practical, and delivers focused creativity – inspiring people to create outstanding work that achieves business as well as artistic goals.

Because you receive an e-book of the workshop topics, you are free to focus 100% on your experience of the training – listening, asking questions, sharing ideas and practising new skills.

Mark makes sure everyone has plenty of fun – and leaves with useful ideas and practical skills that they can start applying the very next day at work.

Topics include

• Why motivation is crucial to creative success

• The four most powerful types of motivation

• Why focusing on rewards can harm your creativity

• Striking the right balance between your creative and career ambitions

• Understanding and influencing the people you work with

• Getting support and encouragement when you need it

• Making sure you finish what you start

This session includes a free 58-page ebook 'How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)'

About Mark: Mark has first-hand experience of the creative process, as a poet and one of the editors of the acclaimed magazine Magma Poetry, making it easy for him to understand the opportunities and challenges facing professional artists and creatives. He writes two of the most popular creative business blogs in the world, Lateral Action and Wishful Thinking .

He is the author of a string of popular ebooks, including Time Management for Creative People, downloaded over 100,000 times. His work has been featured in publications including Creative Review and the Wall Street Journal.

Mark holds an MA in Creative & Media Enterprises (with distinction) from the University of Warwick, a BA in English Language & Literature from Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Mark has been coaching and training creative professionals since 1996. Organisations he has worked with include the BBC, Channel 4, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, Transport for London, Vodafone, BT, the Arts Council, Arts & Business, Econsultancy, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the University of Warwick.

28th March 2012 | 10am to 1pm | Plymouth College of Art
Non Members £20
Cyan Members £10

For more information visit http://artsmatrix.plymouthart.ac.uk/index.php?q=node/617