Film Commissions come in all shapes and sizes. The ubiquity and variability of organizations means there is ample room for complexity and confusion in the organizational challenges we regularly face. Every week, you’ll learn a different organizational theory, and it will become a lens through which you can interpret concrete organizational situations. Armed with a…
Read moreBasics of Financial Management – Film Commissioner Skills
An online course at the University of Cape Town on the Basics of Financial Management; The course in a nutshell: 9-week part-time course presented online Understand the world of finance and its technical jargon Develop practical skills in budgeting, reading financial statements, cash-flow analysis, cutting costs and investing Learn how to maintain a department or…
Read moreLeadership – Skills for Film Commissioners
We see “un-leaderlike” moments all the time in public life, in our own work lives, and yes, often in our personal relationships. Even the best leaders among us have been guilty of cutting corners for expediency, being emotionally insensitive, not speaking up when it was the right thing to do, or being self-centered at one…
Read moreStatistics One – Skills for Film Commissioners
Every Film Commissioner needs to understand how to collate, manage and report the statistics of production in their jurisdictions. But what exactly is Statistics? This Princeton Online course, Statistics One, is designed to be a friendly introduction to very simple, very basic, fundamental concepts in statistics. This course is, quite literally, for everyone. If you…
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