Orchestrating Collaboration at Work
Subtitle: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
Edition: paperback edition
Publisher: Booksurge, 2007,
Published: March 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Ring-bound
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781419651748
Subjects: Creativity and Innovation; Personnel & human resources management; Leadership development; Collaboration; Coaching; arts-based learning; Facilitation; Training; Organizational change; arts in business; Arts and society; Teams in the workplace; Change Management
Genres: Training  and Human Resource Development
Description: Product Description
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations. All 70 activities are crafted using arts-based principles that offer new insights and skills development in creativity, communication, teamwork, and collaborative leadership. Painting, poetry, storytelling, music, and improvisational theater offer innovative and transformative learning experiences. You can use them as quick icebreakers or brainjuicers at meetings or training sessions, and as a means of mediating dialogue to stimulate employee engagement. You do NOT have to be an artist to use this book's offerings. 

From the Back Cover
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. Orchestrating Collaboration at Work will help you 

The book also includes interviews with such arts-in-business luminaries such as business author Margaret Wheatley, poet David Whyte, actor Richard Olivier, and former chief scientist at Xerox PARC, John Seely Brown.
Notes: Orchestrating Collaboration at Work was originally published by Wiley/ Pfeiffer in  2003 ASIN/ISBN 0787962589 and was republished in 2007 by Booksurge.