INSPIRING
"If you've got no time, lots of different personalities, and more work to do than you ever think you can get to — ask Brian to spend some time with your team. It's fun and it works. A resounding WOW to Brian Fraser and the Jazzthink Trio!
Norah Wilsdon
Community Homes Manager,
Coast Mental Health,
Vancouver, BC
INNOVATIVE
"Brian is truly what he claims to be — a provocateur! I am awestruck by his energy, commitment, competence and caring with everyone with whom I have seen him work. I do recommend Brian highly for any project that requires creativity, professionalism and immediate results."
Dr. Terry Anderson
Professor,
University of the Fraser Valley,
Abbottsford, BC
EFFECTIVE
"With Brian's strategic and creative mind as well as his collaborative approach and natural coaching style, he is always demonstrating value in the conversations he fosters with individuals and teams alike."
Lisa Ryan
VP of Talent Management,
Right Management,
Vancouver, BC
Jazzthink Provokes
REAL SMART TeamworkTM
Jazzthink helps its clients overcome the most powerful obstacles to creating and developing productive teams, obstacles like:
- lack of clarity in direction
- lack of inspiration in communication
- lack of cohesion in performance
In turbulent and trying times, you know your team cannot afford to leave obstacles like these unaddressed. You and your team have the potential to improve things. You and your team have the wisdom to take the first steps in achieving the positive changes that generate and sustain productivity in whatever you are passionate about doing. But you get stuck too often in confusion, complacency, or conflict.
Jazzthink provokes your best as you and your team take the initiative to move things forward. You will advance faster and further with Jazzthink's help in creating REAL SMART TeamworkTM.
Get REAL SMART About Productive Teams
Jazzthink provokes people to generate REAL SMART TeamworkTM that brings clarity, inspiration, and cohesion into the productivity of organizations in all sectors — the private, the public, and the nonprofit.
At Jazzthink, we think every team has something to learn from the workings and wisdom of jazz. The connection lies in the foundational truth that you create your team one conversation after another. The most common form of jazz or improvisation in human experience is ordinary conversation. Within the established structures of grammar and vocabulary, you improvise every time you engage in a conversation. The quality of the results you achieve in your team is determined by the quality of the conversations you have with each other. Innovation, sustainability, and satisfaction in productivity arises from the sounds and substance you express in the conversations your team has with one another.
We have developed a pair of acronyms — one for REAL and another for SMART — from our extensive research into the qualities of productive teamwork people see in a jazz performance. A team is only as good as the individuals who are on it and as the teamwork they achieve together. Great teams, like great jazz groups, always arise from an artful tension between self-expression and self-sacrifice.
Teamwork is more productive when members are committed to these qualities of REAL collaboration:
- Resilient & Respectful in their relationships;
- Enthusiastic & Engaged in their contributions;
- Agile & Aligned in their performance; and
- Learning & Laughing together.
Teamwork is more productive when members practice these dimensions of SMART conversation:
- Soulful when talking with themselves about strengths and potential;
- Mindful when cultivating positive relations with others;
- Astute when analyzing and deciding wisely with others;
- Responsible when generating mutual accountability with others; and
- Trusting when monitoring continuous improvement in collaboration.
REAL SMART TeamworkTM happens one conversation after another. Jazzthink inspires and equips you and your team to sustain the conversations that produce productive teamwork through a customized blend of speaking, seminars, facilitation, and coaching.
Contact us today for a free consultation about how Jazzthink can provoke you and your team to produce REAL SMART TeamworkTM. To find out more about the essentials of REAL SMART TeamworkTM and how Jazzthink provokes it, click here.
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