Jazzthink Provokes REAL Leadership and Teamwork

 

Jazzthink helps you and your organization flourish.

Jazzthink helps its clients overcome the most powerful obstacles to creating and developing flourishing organizations, obstacles like:

  1. lack of clarity in direction
  2. lack of inspiration in communication
  3. lack of cohesion in performance

In turbulent and trying times, you know your organization cannot afford to leave obstacles like these unaddressed. You and your organization have the potential to improve things. You and your organization have the wisdom to take the first steps in achieving positive change. But you get stuck too often in confusion, complacency, or conflict.

Jazzthink provokes your best as you take the initiative to get things moving. You will progress faster and further with Jazzthink's help in delivering on your organization's purpose and potential.

 

 

 

 
 
 

INSPIRING


"... great fun, provocative, and inspiring. They got us thinking in a whole new way about the education and training work we do."

Randy Galuzzi
Toyota University
Toronto, ON


INNOVATIVE


"It inspired me to think differently. Some great ideas. Great evening, Brian. I really enjoyed it."

Marlene Norris
Canadian Blood Services
Vancouver, BC


EFFECTIVE


"Great questions and new ways to think about things. It helped me come up with practical ways to address current leadership challenges."

Jade Kuiters
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Vancouver, BC

 
Get REAL About Results

Jazzthink provokes people to exercise REAL leadership and build REAL teams that bring clarity, inspiration, and cohersion into the life and service of organizations in all sectors - the private, the public, and the nonprofit.

At Jazzthink, we think everyone has something to learn from the workings and wisdom of jazz. The most common form of jazz or improvisation in human experience is ordinary conversation. Within the established structures of grammar and vocabulary, we all improvise every time we engage in a conversation. The quality of the results you achieve in your organization is determined by the quality of the conversations you have.

REAL is an acronym we've developed from our extensive research into the qualities of leadership and teamwork people see in a jazz performance.

Leadership is REAL when it is:

  1. Resilient in relationships;
  2. Enthusiastic in collaborations;
  3. Agile in strategies; and
  4. Learning from results.

Teamwork is REAL when people are:

  1. Respectful in their relationships;
  2. Engaged in their contributions;
  3. Aligned in their efforts; and
  4. Laughing together.

We help you get REAL about the conversations that produce great results through a customized blend of speaking, seminars and training, facilitation, consulting, and coaching.

Contact us today for a free consultation about how Jazzthink can provoke you and your organization to achieve REAL leadership and REAL teamwork.


Book

A great jazz performance provides a provocative model for personal growth and development. Find out how in Dr. Fraser's first Jazzthink book, Jazzthink: Playing with Stuff
of Success.
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CD

So what can your organization and its talented people learn from the wisdom and workings of jazz? The Jazzthink for Teams CD provokes you to imagine how that might happen in your unique situation.
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Video

Getting REAL about your leadership and teamwork in conversation with jazz is a powerful stimulus to creating deeply satisfying organizational and personal success. And there is something special about learning to the swing of great jazz that brings out the best in everyone.
Listen to a sampler of a Jazzthink keynote on teamwork (24.4MB)