Date: July 16, 2021

Time: 12 p.m. to 1p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Questions: Chat

Link for free Ticket: Gerald Leonard

Workplace Jazz teaches the strategies and steps professionals need to connect and transform their agile project teams and execute for optimum results. According to McKinsey, Research shows that hurtful workplace behavior can depress performance, increase employee turnover, and even mar customer relationships. And that Workplace relationships may be fraying as fewer employees work in the office and feel more isolated and less respected. The gap between workforce engagement and workplace productivity is widening. In a study conducted by Kronos and Future Workplace, The biggest threat to building an engaged and transformational workforce in 2017 is employee burnout.

The newest study in the Employee Engagement Series conducted by Kronos Incorporated and Future Workplace found 95 percent of human resource leaders admit employee burnout is sabotaging workforce retention, yet there is no obvious solution on the horizon.

• When teams are emotionally connected and supportive, burnout is reduced, and engagement goes up.
• What should leaders do to address this workforce engagement and productivity gap
• Should companies keep implementing culture improvement processes and procedures that do not address the emotional connection that teams need?
• Should they just accept the status quo and try to keep moving forward?
• Workplace Jazz offers a step by step process enhanced with stories, research, mini case studies, metaphors and a strategic blueprint for developing connected and transformational project teams based on the authors experiences as a professional musician and certified business consultant.

The author will also include stories from a highly skilled set of guest contributors who are both musicians and some well-known business authors and consultants. Agile Transformational Project teams are critical to your workplace because they enable your staff to work well under pressure, they are less defensive, are more open to feedback, and they want to understand each other and are more supportive.

Workplace Jazz offers insights into how to help your teams become successful agile transformational project teams using the I.M.P.R.O.V.I.S.E. framework to grow in the areas of emotional and conversational Intelligence while experiencing the connections that professional musicians achieve when they're performing.

Author

Gerald J. Leonard is the CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting and coaching practice with over 20+ years experiencing working with large Federal and State Governments and Multi-National Corporations.

Gerald provides an insightful and unique way of combining his experience and expertise as a professional bassist and a certified Portfolio Management Professional consultant.

During the last 20+ years, he has worked as an IT Project Management consultant and earned his PfMP, PMP, MCSE, MCTS, CQIA, COBIT Foundation, and ITIL Foundation certifications. He has also acquired certifications in Project Management and Business Intelligence from the University of California, Berkeley, Theory of Constraints Portfolio Management Technical Expert from the Goldratt Institute, Hoshin Kanri Strategic Planning, Executive Leadership Certification from Cornell University and The Wharton School: Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.