Leading Skillful, Connected, Adaptive Teams with Gerald Leonard
How can you lead more connected, adaptive teams that think critically, and adapt to change? In this episode, conservatory-trained jazz musician, author, and CEO Gerald Leonard gives you leadership approaches to help you build teams that operate like a jazz ensemble. Teams that connect with one another, respond to each other’s talents, and work together under pressure with less defensiveness. That’s the gift of workplace jazz.
Tune in and get a team development system that provides clarity, purpose, and structure to support individual and corporate responsibility in building cultures that are healthier and more productive.
6:18 – Developing influence without authority
7:12 – How your leadership roles can outgrow your capacity
9:51 – The importance of realizing you don’t have control
10:55 – Why a vision of something bigger than themselves is vital for adaptive teams
13:00 – Leadership and love
14:05 – How teams of skilled experts pull together to honor one another’s strength
19:59 – Why good jazz, and great teams, require skillful team members
21:33 – How dedicated practice and study give you the confidence to connect, adapt, and respond to change
25:12 – Neuroscience and conversational intelligence
26:57 – How your brain develops fast pathways where you develop expertise
30:41 – Recognizing the different phases of team’s work and how adaptive teams leverage the abilities of their people
35:13 – Risk and reward: how jazz musicians incorporate “wrong” notes into the music and how teams and leaders can learn from healthy risks and “failures.”
37:35 – Creating the psychological safety to take risks
38:53 – The leadership (and jazz) principle of surrendering to support
44:51 – How leaders can build adaptive teams by putting people forward
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