Orchestrating Collaboration at Work Using Music, Improv, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork

Acknowledgments.1. Introduction and Overview.Learning Objectives.Organization of the Book.Activity Format.2. Orchestrating Collaboration Using the Arts.What Do We Mean by "Arts"?How Do We Know Whether It Is Really Art?Why Use the Arts in Business?How Can We Apply the Arts to Business?Learning to Collaborate.Examples of the Arts as a Vehicle for Collaboration in Organizations.Why Use the Arts in Corporate Training?Debriefing an Arts Experience.Do Some Art Forms Work Better Than Others in Different Work Groups?Guidelines for Conducting an Arts Experience.3. Getting Acquainted and Icebreakers.Getting Acquainted.Chairs.More Than 1,000 Words.Personality Typing.Sing, Sing a Song.Icebreakers.Belly Dancing.Building Community.C heck In.Inspiration Rituals.4. Arts Warm-Up Activities.Abstraction and Composition.Art Gallery.Arts Expedition.Express Yourself.If Your Face Were a Poem.Restrictions and Limitations.Strike Up the Band.Thinking Symbolically.Transparency.5. Collage/Mixed Media.Candid Collages.The Figure/Ground of Conflict.Golden Moment.Just Suppose Juxtapose.Mapping Your Future.People Wall.Searching for Genius in All the Unexpected Places.Self-Portrait.Shift Happens.6. Drawing.Commentated Pictures.Drawing You into Conversation.Metaphorical Thinking.Picture Switcher.Symbolic Code.Vision Quest.7. Music.Bamboos.Group Groove.Jazzin' It.8. Painting.Getting Graphic.Spheres of Influence.Visual Symphonies.9. Poetry.Limerick Your Learning.Poetry in Motion.Rhyme and Reason.Rhyme Time.10. Storytelling.Exchanging Perspectives.Fictionalization and Imaginative "Restoryation".It's History.Once Upon a Team.Stories of Change.Story Lines.Story Weaving.Time Capsule.To Go Where No Group Has Gone Before.11. Theater Improvisation.The Advocates.The Answer Is Always Yes.Ball Toss Chaos.Free Association Word Ball.Obstacles and Opportunities.Reflections.Statues.Team Moving.Two Minutes of Fame.The World's Worst Leader.12. Miscellaneous Activities.The Blue Ribbon Panel.Collaboration Imagination.Here's Looking at You.The Innovative Product Award.Mythical Animals.Teams in Motion.13. Evaluation Activities.Artistic Insights.Song Lyrics.Symbolic Solutions.Contributor Contact Information.About the Editors.VanGundy, Arthur B. is the author of 'Orchestrating Collaboration at Work Using Music, Improv, Storytelling and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork' with ISBN 9780787962586 and ISBN 0787962589.