CIFLI is a first-of-its-kind initiative that combines business skills, leadership training, project generation and business acceleration for the creative sector.
CIFLI (pronounced “chiefly”) runs for 6 months and consists of 23 workshops with practical activities, guest presenters, project development and covers 70+ topics.
To bring financial sustainability into the creative industries by helping future leaders establish and run high-performing businesses and projects.
CIFLI is all about delivering results for participants. These are the outcomes you can expect by joining the program:
SHORT TERM: Learn leadership and business skills and develop a clear pathway towards a stable long-term career
MID TERM: Start a creative industries project or apply your learnings to a current business
LONG TERM: Achieve financial sustainability in an arts business or creative career
SHORT TERM: Learn leadership and business skills and develop a clear pathway towards a stable long-term career
MID TERM: Start a creative industries project or apply your learnings to a current business
LONG TERM: Achieve financial sustainability in an arts business or creative career
LEARN
70 key topics from 11 areas of business
Markets | Systems | Leadership | Business Skills | Digital business | Marketing | Money | Output optimisation | Perspectives | Professionalism | Communications + relationships
LEAD
Develop your leadership and business skills
CREATE
Set up financially sustainable creative industries projects
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CIFLI is all about delivering results for participants. These are the outcomes you can expect by joining the program:
SHORT TERM: Learn leadership and business skills
MID TERM: Establish financially sustainable arts businesses or greatly improve the viability of an existing business
ASPIRATIONAL: Alumni program: train future leaders of the industry (optional)
SHORT TERM: Learn leadership and business skills
MID TERM: Establish financially sustainable arts businesses or greatly improve the viability of an existing business
ASPIRATIONAL: Alumni program: train future leaders of the industry (optional)
LEARN
70 key topics from 11 areas of business.
CIFLI covers 70 topics which fall within the following areas of business and leadership:
Markets | Systems | Leadership | Business skills | Digital business Marketing | Money | Output optimisation | Perspectives | Professionalism | Communications + relationships
Markets | Systems | Leadership | Business skills | Digital business Marketing | Money | Output optimisation | Perspectives | Professionalism | Communications + relationships
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LEAD
Develop your leadership and business skills.
Learning key business skills and build your leadership mindset needed to succeed.
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CREATE
Set up financially sustainable creative industries projects.
Accelerate your existing business or start a new creative endeavour through our program.
Phase 1: FOUNDATIONS (4 weeks)
Learning the leadership mindset and business skills needed to succeed
Learning the leadership mindset and business skills needed to succeed
- Introduction and creative sector overview
- Learning the key leadership and business skills needed to succeed
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Phase 2: IDEATION (5 weeks)
Creating and exploring project and business ideas
Creating and exploring project and business ideas
- Learn creative techniques to help with ideation
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Phase 3: THE BUSINESS CASE (6 weeks)
Developing project and business ideas to demonstrate that they have strong potential to be financially sustainable
Developing project and business ideas to demonstrate that they have strong potential to be financially sustainable
- Develop a project, and learn how to bring a business plan together and learn how to pitch your idea
- Continue to develop the foundation skills to further embed the leadership and continuous mindset
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Phase 4: SHARK TANK (2 weeks)
Pitching your projects to a panel of business experts
Pitching your projects to a panel of business experts
- Pitch your project or idea and get valuable feedback from our panel of business experts
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Phase 5: PROJECT WORK (5 weeks)
Building or enhancing your creative industry projects or businesses with support and guidance from the facilitators.
Building or enhancing your creative industry projects or businesses with support and guidance from the facilitators.
GRADUATION and WRAP PARTY
Phase 1: FOUNDATIONS (4 weeks)
Learning the leadership mindset and business skills needed to succeed
- Introduction and creative sector overview
- Learning the key leadership and business skills needed to succeed
Phase 2: IDEATION (5 weeks)
Creating and exploring project and business ideas
Creating and exploring project and business ideas
- Learn creative techniques to help with ideation
Phase 3: THE BUSINESS CASE (6 weeks)
Developing project and business ideas to demonstrate that they have strong potential to be financially sustainable
Developing project and business ideas to demonstrate that they have strong potential to be financially sustainable
- Develop a project, and learn how to bring a business plan together and learn how to pitch your idea
- Continue to develop the foundation skills to further embed the leadership and continuous mindset
Phase 4: SHARK TANK (2 weeks)
Pitching your projects to a panel of business experts
Pitching your projects to a panel of business experts
- Pitch your project or idea and get valuable feedback from our panel of business experts
Phase 5: PROJECT WORK (5 weeks)
Building or enhancing your creative industry projects or businesses with support and guidance from the facilitators.
Building or enhancing your creative industry projects or businesses with support and guidance from the facilitators.
GRADUATION and WRAP PARTY
View our detailed week-by-week content breakdown here
The CIFLI Experience
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Stef Dellzeit shares her experience as a CIFLI Pioneer.