We’ve all had them, the one that just ran out of hand, the ones which never seem to end. These are the jobs that wake us up at 2 am with the cold sweats and a guilty stomach.
If we’re honest and take our reputations seriously these jobs can feel like the proverbial Tell Tale Heart. The infernal repetition and noise of the beasts beating heart inside your head convincing you that everyone you meet can hear it too.
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This article does a pretty good job of outlining the process for just about any project, install or not. What Tucker writes is definitely applicable to just about any scope or type of project that we have in theatre, especially the bit about delegating. There are a lot of people involved on a single project at varying levels of responsibility within a theatre’s hierarchy, and it’s important for every single one of those people to trust those they are delegating work to. For example, a production manager should check in with department heads at the beginning and end of an install, in order to have that daily progress conversation with them without micro-managing and to have the information they need to do their job and report back to their own boss. Tucker also writes about owning up to a problem, admitting responsibility and working to find a solution right away rather than dwelling and stressing. This is critical in theatre because there are so many people working together toward one common goal, and everyone needs to be accountable for their own piece of the process in order for the collaboration to be efficient and successful.
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