776: Workplace Jazz: Get Unstuck, Rediscover Your Passion, and Build a High-Performing Team with Gerald Leonard

Gerald Leonard offers a unique approach to accomplish more productivity in the workplace using his 9-step Workplace Jazz method to help your team achieve peak performance. Gerald is an accomplished Jazz musician. With his creativity, innovation, and peak performance, he uses all these principles to help your business achieve the edge needed to succeed in a highly competitive workplace. He has authored two books, Culture Is The Bass: 7 Principles for Developing A Culture That Works, and Workplace Jazz: How to IMPROVISE – 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams.

Gerald’s framework will help your team rediscover their passion and build a productive and harmonious workplace. Grow in the areas of emotional and conversational intelligence while experiencing the connections that professional musicians achieve when they’re performing.

In this episode of Marketer of the Day, Leonard shares his framework for applying jazz principles to the workplace, highlighting the importance of listening, supporting teammates, taking turns leading, and fostering whole-brain integration. He introduces his nine-step IMPROVISE methodology, covering improvement, positivity, risk-taking, feedback, visualization, integration, support, and excellence in execution. Leonard emphasizes the value of lifelong learning, meditation, and cultivating high-performing, collaborative teams. His book Workplace Jazz: How to Improvise, Get Unstuck, and Rediscover Your Passion and his website workplace-jazz.com offer additional resources, music releases, and insights for leaders and professionals seeking to boost productivity, creativity, and engagement.

Quotes

“Workplace Jazz is learning to work together using the techniques and secrets jazz musicians have used for years, and applying them to the workplace.”

“The more you support others, the more they grow—and the more you grow.”

“Musicians rank high in whole-brain integration; even non-musicians can develop this through practices like meditation.”

“Everything is a performance—if you enjoy the process, the results will follow.”

Resources

• Workplace Jazz™: 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams
• Gerald J Leonard: Leading Authority in Workplace Productivity and Growth Strategies
• Follow Productivity Intelligence on Facebook
• Connect with Gerald J. Leonard PfMP PMP on LinkedIn
• Get a copy of Workplace Jazz: 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams (ISSN) by Gerald J. Leonard on Amazon
• Get a copy of Culture Is The Bass: 7 Steps to Creating High Performing Teams by Gerald J. Leonard on Amazon

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Filed in: Archive 4: 2020-2023 • Interview • Podcast