Not just another leadership workshop series ...

... a jazz LEADERSHIP Workshop series! Leadership development and leadership training ... the jazz way!

Theme: “How to be a better leader - the jazzLEADERSHIP way”

We believe jazz provides a great metaphor for leadership.

We've devised a leadership workshop programme with a difference!

This is not a pre-digested, one-size-fits-all leadership training event. It is a self-programming series created by participants. It evolves to meet the needs of the group.

In this way we all get to practice leadership within the group in ways that express the jazzLEADERSHIP approach.

Jazz themes in this leadership workshop

Jazz is about "virtuosity and improvisation" in the players.

It’s about awareness and responsiveness. It’s about standing up and soloing at the right time. It’s also about synergy and teamwork. It’s about responding to context and it’s about breaking the rules – providing the music ‘works'.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected.

Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change. - Warren Bennis

Syncopation – “a momentary contradiction to the prevailing meter or pulse”.

This is just what we guarantee at the next jazz LEADERSHIP session. We will break out of the hum-drum status quo and explore the reality and research about successful leadership.

Jazz is “seeing how far out you can go, and still get back”. We promise to explore the far horizons of leadership learning and experience and still get back to practical application.

Warren Bennis again:

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

We invite you to jazz LEADERSHIP – a participative and co-creative event with the energy of a jazz improv session.

If you are leading with all the flair and creativity you can possibly imagine … and the changes you need to make are going ahead smoothly – great! Come and solo and help others learn. And perhaps stretch yourself a little!

On the other hand, you may be frustrated in your leadership role. From time-to-time you know that mould-bending, mould-stretching and – of course – mould breaking fit your situation.

Come and play along with the band. Pick up the new riffs you need to become a better leader.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

At jazz LEADERSHIP there are no spectators. We learn and play and grow together.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. - Blaine Lee

The jazz LEADERSHIP workshop series: content

So if you want to push your boundaries as a leader, together we will:

• Expand leadership understanding and capability
• Get to the real issues about leadership
• Explore latest case studies and research
• Builds trusting relationships
• Develops a leadership learning community for mutual support
• Facilitate sharing of leadership success stories
• Spread best practice faster and further
• Address relevant issues and challenges

Opportunity to be part of the jazz LEADERSHIP workshop series

If you are looking for something innovative and effective, lively and learningful, come to jazz LEADERSHIP where we promise you ...

• a leadership learning community for mutual support and knowledge exchange about leadership in the 21st Century
• an ongoing venue for substantive and purposeful dialogue on compelling leadership issues
• elevated conversation among peers who practice and coach leadership a forum forinsights and to strategize practical solutions
• practice, practice, practice ... a forum to develop insights and to support you as you implement practical solutions

If you would like to find out more about the processes we use in leadership training and want to know more about our next workshop, click here: forthcoming leadership development workshop and booking form.

For more general background to these leadership development workshops, participants' reactions and case studies, take a look at the links in our general leadership development workshops page.