Orchestrating Collaboration at Work
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improvisation, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork

Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improvisation, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork


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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is chock full of creative exercises and activities inspired by the arts that will help you and your team -- your entire organization -- achieve and maintain optimum team performance. This unique resource presents artistic forms of expression-- dance, drawing, graphic design, improvisational theater, music, painting, photography, poetry, sculpture, singing, and storytelling -- as a basis for improving collaboration at work. You don't have to be a professional artist or world--class musician to facilitate the activities outlined in this book. Everything you need to know is here. You'll be confident as you apply these concepts from the arts that you are creating business--training experiences that will help to develop new perspectives and insights into what makes a team effective

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction and Overview; Learning Objectives; Organization of the Book; Activity Format; 2. Orchestrating Collaboration Using the Arts; What Do We Mean by "Arts"?; How Do We Know Whether It Is Really Art?; Why Use the Arts in Business?; How Can We Apply the Arts to Business?; Learning to Collaborate; Examples of the Arts as a Vehicle for Collaboration in Organizations; Why Use the Arts in Corporate Training?; Debriefing an Arts Experience; Do Some Art Forms Work Better Than Others in Different Work Groups?; Guidelines for Conducting an Arts Experience; 3. Getting Acquainted and Icebreakers; Getting Acquainted; Chairs; More Than 1,000 Words; Personality Typing; Sing, Sing a Song; Icebreakers; Belly Dancing; Building Community; C heck In; Inspiration Rituals; 4. Arts Warm-Up Activities; Abstraction and Composition; Art Gallery; Arts Expedition; Express Yourself; If Your Face Were a Poem; Restrictions and Limitations; Strike Up the Band; Thinking Symbolically; Transparency; 5. Collage/Mixed Media; Candid Collages; The Figure/Ground of Conflict; Golden Moment; Just Suppose Juxtapose; Mapping Your Future; People Wall; Searching for Genius in All the Unexpected Places; Self-Portrait; Shift Happens; 6. Drawing; Commentated Pictures; Drawing You into Conversation; Metaphorical Thinking; Picture Switcher; Symbolic Code; Vision Quest; 7. Music; Bamboos; Group Groove; Jazzin' It; 8. Painting; Getting Graphic; Spheres of Influence; Visual Symphonies; 9. Poetry; Limerick Your Learning; Poetry in Motion; Rhyme and Reason; Rhyme Time; 10. Storytelling; Exchanging Perspectives; Fictionalization and Imaginative "Restoryation"; It's History; Once Upon a Team; Stories of Change; Story Lines; Story Weaving; Time Capsule; To Go Where No Group Has Gone Before; 11. Theater Improvisation; The Advocates; The Answer Is Always Yes; Ball Toss Chaos; Free Association Word Ball; Obstacles and Opportunities; Reflections; Statues; Team Moving; Two Minutes of Fame; The World's Worst Leader; 12. Miscellaneous Activities; The Blue Ribbon Panel; Collaboration Imagination; Here's Looking at You; The Innovative Product Award; Mythical Animals; Teams in Motion; 13. Evaluation Activities; Artistic Insights; Song Lyrics; Symbolic Solutions; Contributor Contact Information; About the Editors.

About the Author :
Arthur VanGundy is professor of communication at the University of Oklahoma and president of VanGundy Associates, a creativity and innovation consulting firm. He is the author of eleven books including 101 Great Games & Activities (Pfeiffer, 1998) and has been interviewed for numerous publications including Business Week, Fortune Small Business, New York Times, Science Digest, Inc., Success, and US News and World Report, and has facilitated training sessions for such organizations as Hershey Foods, S.C. Johnson, Xerox, McNeil Consumer Products, Motorola, Wyeth--Ayerst Pharmaceuticals, and the Singapore government. Linda Naiman is founder of Linda Naiman & Associates Inc. a Vancouver BC, consulting and training group designed to awaken genius--level thinking through the arts, applying creativity, innovation, and visionary thinking to business strategy. She speaks about creativity and innovation at conferences in North America and Europe and her writings have appeared in her e--newsletter, Creativity at Work, and numerous business journals, including Perspectives on Global Change and the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management HR Magazine.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787962586
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 215 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Using Music, Improvisation, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
  • Width: 273 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0787962589
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2003
  • Binding: Loose-leaf
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 1651 gr


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