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Coaching the Art of Creative Management

Are you an artist entrepreneur?:

• Do you need to make your own messes, and enjoy cleaning them up?
  
• Do you believe that your work makes a unique contribution?
  
• Do you have a compelling need for freedom to choose creative challenges?

The Art of Creative Management uses proven methods to encourage artists to take the skills and disciplines they know as creatives and use them to start their own businesses, grow their careers, or step into the management role of other creatives.

The Art of Creative Management teaches:

• How to use the artistic perspective to create space to show your work;
  
• How to evaluate and value your particular creative gifts and when you need to ask for help;
  
• How to find enough time to play and leverage the inspiration that results into money makeing and satisfying work.

Dr. Virginia Green, CEO of the Stillwater Group, provides coaching in the art of creative management. Whether you are an artist entrepreneur or a corporate department head seeking to motivate creative talent,The Art of Creative Management System will work for you.

Coaching provides a professional relationship that helps artist entrepreneurs produce extraordinary results. Through the process, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

The Stillwater Group provides individual and group counseling that centers on a proven method, and allows flexibility to address the unique needs of each participant. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions, and teaches a specific problem-solving skill that will help the client gain clarity and encourage action.

"I need a new business card. What should it say?"

"How much should I charge for my services?"

"How can I make money working fewer hours?"

"I need a business plan. How do I write one?"

These are all questions for the Creative Manager, and The Stillwater Group can help you answer them.

The Art of Creative Management accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. We concentrate on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to create their desired future.

We support the client's intentions, choices and actions in order to achieve the results that really matter.
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Creative Management coaching means business ROI...

A 2001 survey of 100 Fortune-1000 respondents who received coaching found that the coaching relationship:

• Resulted in an average return of 5.7 times the initial investment
  
• Increased productivity for 53 percent of respondents
  
• Improved quality of work for 48 percent of the respondents