HOW TO IMPROVISE

Matt Coatney is a seasoned C-level product and technology executive, entrepreneur, advisor, author, and speaker with 25 years of experience helping businesses and technology work better together. He has led divisions and portfolios for large global corporations, co-founded three companies and advised several others, been an early-stage employee of two successful tech startups, advised dozens of business and technology professionals across all stages of company formation and growth, and launched over a dozen successful products. Matt has expertise in artificial intelligence, automation, future of work, robotics, data analytics, cloud computing, and digital content across a wide range of industry experience spanning manufacturing, media, law, life sciences, government, and finance. He writes and speaks frequently on business and advanced technology topics. In addition to a TED talk and keynotes, his work has been published by MIT, HarperCollins, and O'Reilly and has appeared in books, journals, and international conferences. Author of:The Human Cloud: How Today's Changemakers Use Artificial Intelligence and the Freelance Economy to Transform Work

“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.”– Jerry WestDo you want to increase your productivity in the workplace? In this podcast, I will talk about how to do just that. Let’s start by defining increased productivity. Looking for more productivity tips, check out https://productivityintelligenceinstitute.com/

KC Rossi has been an entrepreneur since she was 10 years old and has been on a continuous improvement quest ever since. KC jokes that business is in my DNA because it is as natural as breathing for me. KC was the trusted town nanny from age 10 - 18 and immediately fell in love with developing long-term connections and improving people’s lives. From there, she met a dynamic business partner and they developed 10 different business ventures. Their most successful creation was a confection manufacturing business. They owned and operated that for 17 years. It was thrilling to be able to build a dynamic team that was like family, develop an internationally known brand that consistently grossed 7+ figures, and travel the world to boot. After that, KC freelanced, cutting her teeth on digital marketing, learning the tech by doing for my business as well as for other clients. Now, KC likes to empower female entrepreneurs and thought-leaders to step up, embrace their signature strengths, and be the lightworker they are destined to be (while being wildly profitable). KC helps bust through self-imposed glass ceilings and make scaling a business a joy-filled journey. To learn more about KC Rossi check out her website at: https://www.kcrossi.com/

Have you ever hosted a meeting or training session and wanted to get better at engaging your coworkers or team? It all begins with leveraging neuroscience.

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In this fascinating interview, Chad Barr shares with Gerald Leonard several web presence success strategies and tactics. Starting with: what are the key mistakes people make with their sites and what do million-dollar entrepreneurs do that others don’t?

Have you hit a plateau in your business? Did you realize that may be because of lack of feedback? The highest paid people in the world love feedback. It helps us improve our game since even 1% improvement can make all the difference. Listen to this podcast and to Gerald further explaining this topic.

Did you know that our brain does not know the difference between something we physically are doing vs. something we visualize ourselves doing? Which thoughts are you letting into your brain to affect your future? In this episode Gerald explains how visualization of our goals allows us to program our brain and our future success.

Conversations are multi-dimensional and not linear, which is a key part to achieving conversational intelligence. Listen to this podcast to better understand the concept of conversational intelligence and to Gerald Leonard explaining how to strengthen the future of your virtual teams and make sure you are not running into a team\'s fatigue?

The most important future skill for managers and leaders in virtual teams is the development of social and conversational skills. Listen to Gerald on this episode further explaining this topic and why most successful teams have fewer than 12 people per team.

The recent pandemic has had a major impact on the ways virtual teams work and communicate with proposed significant new ways of working in the future. Is your organization aligning your skills for the future? Listen to this podcast and to Gerald Leonard sharing his insights to bridge the gap into the future.

In this episode Gerald shares six steps to creating a high performing team. Clear shared vision, open communication and even constructive conflict are a few of these steps. Discover the steps necessary for taking your teams to significant higher levels.

There are definitely various ways of delivering effective feedback to members of your team and even your own boss. In this episode, Gerald shares his tips and techniques to doing so productively.

In this podcast Gerald clarifies what are expectations in general and especially unrealistic ones. Managing your own stress level and stress response are the first things you should do in order to control these. Listen to this podcast and uncover the steps to handle unrealistic expectations.

Workers today are much more like artists than laborers. People are pushing themselves to higher professional levels. In this episode, Gerald Leonard explains how the role of the orchestra conductor is related to the business executive or CEO and what he makes the analogy that workers are like artists.

Listening, mimicking and imitating other experts is the key to improving one’s improvisation skills in music. In this episode Gerald explains how this relates to the business world.

Buy-in is one of the most critical factors to getting true engagement from your team. Listen to this podcast and to Gerald sharing several other factors to increase your team’s effectiveness.

As part of Gerald’s latest book launch Workplace Jazz, in this interview Gerald answers the questions: What’s the analogy that the organization’s culture you create is just like the bass instrument and should one choose to become a virtuoso? Also, do we really need a workplace jazz culture?

Business is becoming like jazz. Creative flow and improvisation are some of these examples. When a team works together as a cohesive team or in a jazz or agile mindset, this is what Gerald calls a work place jazz mindset. Listen to this podcast and find out how to bring this success mindset to your organization.

There are six reasons that Gerald shares with us for agile thinking in your organization. Increase your organization’s return on investment and deliver reliable results that can help us handle uncertainties are two of these six reason. In this podcast he shares and articulates all six while using analogies from the business world.