Getting in the Groove
Enhance your organization's performance using the insights and discipline that underpin the creativity of jazz improvisation.
Improvising Isn't Winging It
About: Brian Hayman
Two constants have run through my professional life as a metallurgist in a steel company, an executive in a financial services organization, a principal in an international professional service firm, and an independent management consultant: 1) playing piano in jazz ensembles, listening to jazz music, hanging out with jazz musicians and 2) an abiding interest in how people, individually and collectively, learn. …
What They're Saying
"What a perfect way to end a five day meeting for health care providers! The final count for McGill University's 15th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill was approximately 1400 delegates and presenters, from 39 countries. What better final plenary session could there have been than a probing examination of teamwork? What better medium through which to learn about the determinants of teamwork than jazz? Insightful. Thought provoking. A stunning demonstration of the need to listen and the potential for magic when we do! The combination of live jazz, didactic and slide presentations was particularly effective in galvanizing audience attention and getting across the points you wished to convey. Congratulations Brian and heartfelt thanks. You left us on a high, whatever the key was?!"
Balfour M. Mount, CM, OQ, MD, FRCS(C)
Eric M. Flanders Professor of Palliative Medicine,
McGill University Conference Chairman
