This ‘Portfolio’ will clearly guide the reader through my learning journey, pinpointing the things that have helped establish my professional inquiry questions, ethical considerations and evaluations.
I first felt it necessary to consider my job title within my chosen profession. After a successful transition from performer to small business owner I felt uncertain as to my exact role and job description. Within my Professional Practice Blog are my thoughts and findings along with my concluding job title which will also be my awards title ‘Performing Arts Management’
Once I had established my awards title and area into which I was to inquire I immediately joined a like minded ‘Special Interest Group’ (SIG) Facebook SIG I started to interact with their questions and thoughts as well as proposing my own ideas to the group on management and leadership Arts management discussion board The SIG challenged us all to think beyond our own pre conceptions and helped me personally develop a deeper understanding of my role within my company Manic Stage Productions
I began to develop a set of Relevant questions which were to become the starting point to discovering what my final inquiry question would be and the area it would cover. These initial questions formed new, more specific questions that I then asked my business partner to answer Business partner questions This in turn helped me to narrow down my search for the ultimate question!
As well as using techniques and tools to develop my line of inquiry, I began to look at other areas surrounding my professional practice, such as professional ethics and codes of professional practice within my chosen work place. This Code of practice article clearly states and explains the importance of each point of the code of practice and I found it extremely helpful when writing my final version for my own business. Code of practice for management
I was also interested to read the alternative article Code specific to employees This too seemed just as important for me to consider as an employer of a number of freelance professional performers and teachers. I was compelled to write my own code of practice for my employees as I felt it would clearly state what is expected from them and clarify their role within the company Code of practice for artists
Finally I actively began to use the suggested tools to gather, analyse and evaluate data, both from existing literature and from primary sources. I found many interesting sources, articles and blogs and wrote about my findings and thoughts in a critical Literature review on my blog. Each piece of independent literature relates to my pending inquiry and has again evolved my understanding and thinking.
There are many other important discussions taking place in my professional field and although not linked directly to my pursued line of inquiry, still made very interesting reading. I have filed them all on my Delicious account.
We were encouraged to pilot the four tools of professional inquiry i] interview ii] survey iii] focus group iv] observation and I blogged about my results and experience with each here Tools of inquiry blog I received feedback from my SIG that gave me the confidence to create and implement a survey on my actual business connections to find out their opinions on a number of aspects of my company that they did and did not use. Here is a link to that questionnaire at Survey monkey
Overall module WBS 3835 has been essential in my personal development as a professional practitioner and has certainly given me the tools, knowledge and understanding to move confidently forward on to my professional inquiry and to achieving an award in BA (Hons) Professional Practice (Performing Arts Management).
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