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Following a team development system that jazz musicians use naturally provides clarity, purpose, and structure is the key to creating high-performing agile teams, and it’s attainable through this book... more
FAQs about HOW TO IMPROVISE:How many episodes does HOW TO IMPROVISE have?The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.
March 30, 2021The Future of Virtual Teams Part -1The recent pandemic has had a major impact on the ways virtual teams work and communicate with proposed significant new ways of working in the future. Is your organization aligning your skills for the future? Listen to this podcast and to Gerald Leonard sharing his insights to bridge the gap into the future....more7minPlay
March 23, 2021Keys for Creating a High Performing TeamIn this episode Gerald shares six steps to creating a high performing team. Clear shared vision, open communication and even constructive conflict are a few of these steps. Discover the steps necessary for taking your teams to significant higher levels....more12minPlay
March 16, 2021How to Effectively Deliver FeedbackThere are definitely various ways of delivering effective feedback to members of your team and even your own boss. In this episode, Gerald shares his tips and techniques to doing so productively....more7minPlay
March 09, 2021What's wrong with unrealistic expectations?In this podcast Gerald clarifies what are expectations in general and especially unrealistic ones. Managing your own stress level and stress response are the first things you should do in order to control these. Listen to this podcast and uncover the steps to handle unrealistic expectations....more10minPlay
March 02, 2021Why do we need an entirely new type of leadership?Workers today are much more like artists than laborers. People are pushing themselves to higher professional levels. In this episode, Gerald Leonard explains how the role of the orchestra conductor is related to the business executive or CEO and what he makes the analogy that workers are like artists....more9minPlay
February 23, 2021Using improvisation and deep listening in businessListening, mimicking and imitating other experts is the key to improving one's improvisation skills in music. In this episode Gerald explains how this relates to the business world....more10minPlay
February 16, 2021Getting true engagement from your workforce?Buy-in is one of the most critical factors to getting true engagement from your team. Listen to this podcast and to Gerald sharing several other factors to increase your team's effectiveness....more8minPlay
February 09, 2021Chad Barr Interviews Gerald Leonard - Part 1As part of Gerald's latest book launch Workplace Jazz, in this interview Gerald answers the questions: What's the analogy that the organization's culture you create is just like the bass instrument and should one choose to become a virtuoso? Also, do we really need a workplace jazz culture?...more15minPlay
February 02, 2021How can work place jazz help managers and their teamsBusiness is becoming like jazz. Creative flow and improvisation are some of these examples. When a team works together as a cohesive team or in a jazz or agile mindset, this is what Gerald calls a work place jazz mindset. Listen to this podcast and find out how to bring this success mindset to your organization....more15minPlay
January 26, 2021Music Can Teach Us How to Think AgileThere are six reasons that Gerald shares with us for agile thinking in your organization. Increase your organization's return on investment and deliver reliable results that can help us handle uncertainties are two of these six reason. In this podcast he shares and articulates all six while using analogies from the business world....more9minPlay
FAQs about HOW TO IMPROVISE:How many episodes does HOW TO IMPROVISE have?The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.