Mastery Journey Timeline By: DeVonte’ Cliett

MDL501 Mastery: Personal Development and Leadership

❖ Goal:

❖ Learn how to effectively learn how to harness my life’s task and move towards walking into my mastery journey.

❖ Gain insight in my strengths and weaknesses in my personal development.

❖ Strategies:

❖ Read Mastery by Robert Greene and realize how I can learn from previous masters and gain and understand about owning your space.

❖ Watch “The Keys to Success” by Dr. Angela Duckworth http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit

❖ The Last Lecture” presentation video (reprised version) by Dr. Randy Pausch  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODHsU3hDo4 

MAN630 Executive leadership

❖ Goal:❖ Gain insight on different leadership styles and gain

some skills on different ways to lead. Learn how to develop the leader within me.

❖ Strategies:❖ Read and review The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene❖ Review the Executive Leadership resources on lynda.com❖ Watch theEmotional Intelligence: How Good Leaders

Become Great -- UC Davis Executive Leadership Program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA15YZlF_kM

MAN 603 Project and team management

❖ Goal:❖ Learn about different team member skill sets and how to match

them to each team member. ❖ Learn about the factors that make a successful team and lead a

project.❖ Strategies:

❖ DISC Personality Test https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/

❖ Review the tutorials for project management on lynda.com❖ Watch Project Management - How to create a successful project

team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXravOqRfE

MAR 630 Business Storytelling and Brand Development

❖ Goal:❖ This course will help me become an icon in my industry

and allow me to brand myself and my business for the world.

❖ Strategies:❖ Read The Brand Gap by M. Neumeier. ❖ Review the resources on lynda.com about brand

development❖ Watch Brand Your Business With Genesis Storytelling

by Tom Wanek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ruU371oFlE

GET6508 Entertainment Business Finance

❖ Goal:❖ Learn how to balance the funds and incomes of

my business. Learn how to manage and invest more soundly with good business practices.

❖ Strategies:❖ Read Entrepreneurial Finance by P. Alderman❖ Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki, R.❖ Review the the tutorial on finance on lynda.com

MAN6446 Negotiation and Deal-Making

❖ Goal:❖ To be able to make sure I am getting the best offer

possible. Also gain knowledge in knowing when I am being low balled and played. Learn the best ways to negotiate and make a deal.

❖ Strategies❖ Watch Strategic Negotiating on lynda.com❖ Read Beyond Deal Making by Natalie Yun❖ Watch Margaret Neale: Negotiation: Getting What You

Want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXFpOWDAhvM

EBM951 PRODUCT AND ARTIST MANAGEMENT

❖ Goal:❖ Learn the different keys to managing artists. Learn

the do’s and don’ts of product management.❖ Strategies:

❖ Watch Music Law: Managing a Band’s Business on lynda.com.

❖ Read Artist Management For The Music Business by Paul Allen.

❖ Network with different managers on linkedin.com

BUL5628 Advanced Entertainment Law

❖ Goal:❖ Know more about the legal side of the entertainment industry

and what you can and can not do. This will help me keep within the law and its boundaries.

❖ Strategies:❖ Watch Music Law: Rights, Management, and Performance

Contracts on lynda.com❖ Read Entertainment Law in A Nutshell❖ Watch Entertainment Law, Copyright + Hollywood Legal

Must-Knows with Elsa Ramo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmc-UTD3gc

MMC6256 Entertainment Media Publishing and Distribution

❖ Goal:❖ Learn about the different channels of distribution and

publishing in regards to how it is ever changing. Gain knowledge on the new digital publishing strategies that are out there to benefit my business.

❖ Strategies:❖ Watch How to Rock Social Media on lynda.com❖ Read Media, Publishing & Entertainment. (2006). China

Business Review, 33(3), 10.❖ Watch Basic Music Licensing and Publishing on lynda.com

MAR681 Digital Marketing❖ Goal:

❖ Learn how to market my company and artists to the world through social media and various online outlets. This will help me gain an edge in time where mostly everything is done online.

❖ Strategies:❖ Watch The Components of Digital Marketing on lynda.com❖ Read Understanding Digital Marketing : Marketing

Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation❖ Study successful companies in digital marketing and learn

from their journey.

GEB612 Business plan development

❖ Goal:❖ This will help me understand how to create a business plan in

my field. It will show me what I need to have and be prepared to explain my business to investors.

❖ Strategies:❖ Watch creating a business plan on lynda.com❖ Read the Business Plan Process Map on

guidetobusinesplanning.com❖ BRAD, I. (2014). BUSINESS PLAN – MAJOR MANAGEMENT

TOOLS IN DEVELOPMENT OF A BUSINESS. Agricultural Management / Lucrari Stiintifice Seria I, Management Agricol, 16(2), 214-217.

EBM692 Final Project: Business Plan

❖ Goal:❖ Create a business plan to add to my portfolio. A

resource to use when looking for careers in the entertainment business industry to show my work and competencies.

❖ Strategies:❖ Start my LLC❖ Watch Designing A Business Card on lynda.com❖ Review and go over business plans in the entertainment

industry.

Industry leaders

‣ Gee Roberson 1290 Avenue of the Americas 27th Floor New York NY 10104 g.roberson@atlanticrecords.com

‣ Jason GeterPMB 161541 10th Street Atlanta GA 30318 Phone 404 456 1778http://www.grandhustle.com/

‣ Ricky Racks - Producer Darp Studios (404) 642-7400 ‣ Stafa Carter - Engineer Patchwerk Studios (252) 714-4984 ‣ Jaron Allen - Producer Darp Studios (252) 258-5020‣ Stewart Irel https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjirel

Clubs/Organizations1. Grammy U - Provides students a forum for networking outside the classroom. 2. Pre-Law Society - Allows students to explore various legal fields by coming together and discussing different case studies. 3. Music Publishing Society - student group focused on music rights education, content acquisition, music publishing and licensing. 4. Entertainment Networking Society - provides students with the skills to cultivate personal and business relationships in an effort to enhance their careers. 5. Entrepreneur Network E-NET - For students and alumni to represent and collaborate in organized meetings to further their goals in Entrepreneurial pursuits. 6. Media Design Group - provide and share information regarding the ever expanding world of Media Design.

Companies to follow

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ReferencesAdelman, P., & Marks, A. (2009). Entrepreneurial finance (5th ed.). Columbus, OH: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Allen, P. (2011). Artist management for the music business. Amsterdam: Focal Press.

BRAD, I. (2014). BUSINESS PLAN – MAJOR MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN DEVELOPMENT OF A BUSINESS. Agricultural Management / Lucrari Stiintifice Seria I, Management Agricol, 16(2), 214-217.

Brand Your Business With Genesis Storytelling. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ruU371oFlE

Coordinator, Film & TV. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2016, from https://umusiccareers.com/templates/universal_music/jobdetail_391.aspx?referrer=entertainmentcareers

De Weaver, G. (2015, January 10). Top Ten Digital, Tech, Entertainment Trends for 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2016, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-ten-digital-tech-entertainment-trends-2015-geoff-de-weaver

Department Contact List | Warner Bros. Studio Facilities. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2016, from http://studiofacilities.warnerbros.com/department-contact-list/

Entertainment Law, Copyright Hollywood Legal Must-Knows with Elsa Ramo. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmc-UTD3gc

Industry Manager Contact Info!!! : Networking, Promotion. Getting Noticed: Looperman Forums. (n.d.). Retrieved January 23, 2016, from http://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/47502

Kiyosaki, R. (1997). Rich dad, poor dad. New York, NY: Warner Business Books.

Margaret Neale: Negotiation: Getting What You Want. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXFpOWDAhvM

Media, Publishing & Entertainment. (2006). China Business Review, 33(3), 10.

Neumeier, M. (2005). The Brand Gap. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.

New skills. Improved skills. Now. (n.d.). Retrieved January 31, 2016, from http://www.lynda.com/

Ryan, D., & Jones, C. (2009). Understanding Digital Marketing : Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation. London: Kogan Page.