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. Contact www.creativityatwork.com for volume discounts

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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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528204 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-24
• Released on: 2007-07-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 278 pages

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

• Inspire trainees to express themselves openly and creatively
• Create new perspectives for resolving business problems
• Understand how to use the arts to enhance training results
• Incorporate the content, form, and structure of the arts to resolve business problems
• Learn to unlock the hidden potential of employees
• Provide stimulating and effective training exercises
• Offer new insights to employees regarding how their behavior affects others
• Teach specific skills for individual, group, and organizational effectiveness

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.

Praise for Orchestrating Collaboration at Work

"VanGundy and Naiman bring a unique blend of creativity and art to provide practical techniques for increasing and improving teamwork. With this book, I am no longer afraid to explore the exciting world of the arts in buisness. My only regret is that they didn't write it ten years ago."
Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, director of research, QB International

"High-performance collaborative work teams are the new performance imperative in both private and public enterprises. VanGundy and Naiman show how using the arts to unleash the creative potential of individuals and teams will allow this new performance mandate to be met. This book helps to push the edge of the arts in business envelope."
Robert F. Lusch, dean and distinguished professor, The Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

"Our experiences today, obviously demonstrate the need for a holistic, integrated approach to value creation. Only by means of interdisciplinary dialogue and action we will be able to access the existing multitude of creative development opportunities in social, ecological and economic contexts. Orchestrating Collaboration at Work provides hands on examples on how to start and facilitate such a process."
Andreas J. Harbig, partner, head of strategic HR management, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Germany

About the Author
Arthur B. VanGundy is considered a pioneer in his work on idea generation techniques and has written 15 books, including Getting to Innovation (AMACOM, 2007). He specializes in framing organizational innovation challenges and facilitating brainstorming retreats. Linda Naiman is recognised internationally for pioneering arts-based learning and development in organizations. She helps global companies generate breakthroughs in business performance through coaching, consulting and training.

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Customer Reviews

A wealth of enablers in the form of training excercises
I have discovered the power and the simplicity in finding/applying a wide variety of experiencial excercises that spark creativity and imagination in groups. The beauty of this valuable workbook is that it unleashes our hidden potentialities. I have successfully used these activities in private business and in non profit organizations and in every ocassion the results have been the creation of high energy and relevant discoveries among participants.
Thank you Arthur and Linda for your valuable contribution.

Will VanGundy Ever Run Out of Creativity?
Arthur VanGundy has already given us just about every conceivable aid to creative work--from "Brain Boosters" to "101 Games" and "101 Activities." Now with Linda Naiman he delivers the most comprehensive and accessible creativity and innovation resource for groups I've ever seen.

And it's about time someone got business people to start thinking like artists. Anyone in business creativity, ideation, and new-product development will find the VanGundy-Naiman approach not only inspiring and fun but incredibly effective.

This binderful of brilliance would be a bargain at $900.

Terrific Resource
I've purchased MANY books filled with MANY activities over the years. This is one of the best I've seen. It has lots of immediately applicable activities that are practically guaranteed to succeed. As well, it triggers lots of additional ideas for additional activities, too. A tremendous resource that every trainer, facilitator and consultant should add to their library.