The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership - 085: Harvey Seifter: The Art of Science Learning: Fostering Breakthroughs in Team Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation at Scale

085: Harvey Seifter: The Art of Science Learning: Fostering Breakthroughs in Team Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation at Scale

09/21/17 • 71 min

The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership

How does arts-based learning rapidly transform culture and performance in teams and organizations? What is the relationship between creative thinking, collaboration and innovation? What research evidence exists to support incorporating arts-based learning in teams? How can these processes be scaled up in organizations?

Tune in to this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe interviews special guest Harvey Seifter to explore these and other compelling topics. Harvey Seifter is Founder and Director of Art of Science Learning (www.artofsciencelearning.org) and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants and is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning.

Themes explored in the podcast include:

Harvey’s journey from classically trained musician to author to Founder of the Art of Science Learning
Harvey’s experience at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and his 2001 book Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra
Convening the field of arts-based learning in business
Metaforming (symbolic modelling)
2012 $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation exploring arts-based learning, innovation and business
-The development of an arts-based innovation process and curriculum
The creation of 3 innovation incubators: San Diego, Chicago, Worcester
Teaching innovation through doing it: research on 29 cross-disciplinary teams; 22 teams after 1 year went to market (products, processes, services)
The core skills of innovation as well as phases
Approaches to infusing arts-based approaches: music, improv, movement, conducting, drawing, sketching
Wicked problems as failures of imagination
Experimental research: randomized and controlled study of arts-based learning and innovation in teams:
2 phases of innovation: 1) what is the problem and 2) how do we solve it: each with a converge and diverge component
The linkage between divergent thinking, convergent thinking, business results and culture change
Using research and data to bring arts from the fringes into the center of business processes
A story of applying arts-based learning to foster creativity with 22 startups within a Fortune 500 organization
The future of innovation, arts-based learning and wicked problems

This is an episode that truly all teams, team leaders, and team coaches cannot afford to miss! For show notes and more great information and resources on team coaching go to: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/

Themes explored in the podcast include:

Harvey’s journey from classically trained musician to author to Founder of the Art of Science Learning
Harvey’s experience at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and his 2001 book Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World’s Only Conductorless Orchestra
Convening the field of arts-based learning in business
Metaforming (symbolic modelling)
2012 $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation exploring arts-based learning, innovation and business
-The development of an arts-based innovation process and curriculum
The creation of 3 innovation incubators: San Diego, Chicago, Worcester
Teaching innovation through doing it: research on 29 cross-disciplinary teams; 22 teams after 1 year went to market (products, processes, services)
The core skills of innovation as well as phases
Approaches to infusing arts-based approaches: music, improv, movement, conducting, drawing, sketching
Wicked problems as failures of imagination
Experimental research: randomized and controlled study of arts-based learning and innovation in teams:
2 phases of innovation: 1) what is the problem and 2) how do we solve it: each with a converge and diverge component
The linkage between divergent thinking, convergent thinking, business results and culture change
Using research and data to bring arts from the fringes into the center of business processes
A story of applying arts-based learning to foster creativity with 22 startups within a Fortune 500 organization
The future of innovation, arts-based learning and wicked problems

Previous Episode

084: Melissa Sayer & Colm Murphy: Coaching Teams to Increase Team Effectiveness & Diffuse Organizational Learning

How does team coaching contribute to team effectiveness and the diffusion of organizational learning? What is the state of research on team coaching? How can team coaches leverage research to inform practice? Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast to explore these fundamental questions that strike at the heart of the efficacy of team coaching. Melissa Sayer is a Team & Executive Coach for Performance Hub and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth. Colm Murphy is a Business Coach for teams & leaders for Dynamic Leadership Development Limited and a Doctoral Student of team coaching at the University of Portsmouth as well.

Themes covered in the podcast include:

-How Colm & Melissa teamed up to contribute to both team coaching scholarship & practice

-Colm’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to team effectiveness

-Melissa’s dissertation topic: how team coaching contributes to organizational learning

-The research-practice gap in the team coaching field

-Lack of stakeholder voice in team coaching evaluation measures

-The imbalance of current research focusing on leadership teams vs. other types of teams -Team coaching as a learning partnership

-Teams as central to the diffusion of learning in organizations

-The critical role of coaching as a vehicle for facilitating the “transfer of learning”

-The 4 I’s of Learning Transfer: Intuiting, Interpreting, Integrating and Institutionalizing

-The wide body of research on team effectiveness and how to measure it

-Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of learning evaluation

-Learning in real time via team coaching

-Defining and differentiating team coaching

-Bringing one’s whole self as a team coach

-3 evolutionary metaphors for teams: machine, family, system

-Team coaching as an emergent process

-Case examples and lessons learned from coaching real teams

-And more!

Now that the Fall semester is getting underway, it’s time for team coaches to head back to school and get their learning on as well! Tune in to this episode and let Melissa and Colm help you take your scholarship and practice in the area of team coaching to the next level!

Next Episode

086: Gabe Abella: Achieving Organizational and Team Agility with Kanban and the Fit For Purpose Framework

How is work changing and how do we design organizations to be fit for purpose in the knowledge and collaboration economy? How do we form and equip teams to balance capability with infinite demand? How do we coach teams for emergence?

Tune in this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling questions with featured guest Gabe Abella--an Organizational Coach and Vice President in Global Technology at JP Morgan Chase and an accredited Kanban trainer.

Themes covered in the podcast include:

• Gabe’s journey from project and program manager to organizational coach

• Fundamental shifts occurring in how we approach and organize work in the knowledge and collaboration economy

• Understanding 3 Natures: 1) the nature of the work the team is doing, 2) the nature of the organization, 3) the nature of the environment/market

• The infinite backlog and the finite team: balancing capability with demand

• Kanban – Lean; visual management system; seeing the flow of work; “look at the board” or signal card; an improvement method

• Problem-solving as a biological process: iterative cycles and learning

• The invisibility of knowledge work

• Collocated vs. distributed teams

• Team formation for organizational realignments

• Skills vs. roles and motivation in team formation

• Being invisible as a team coach

• Use of simulation prior to engaging in real work in order to reduce learning anxiety

• Fitness for Purpose Framework

• Diffusion of Innovation

• Flow Lab – experiential simulation to overcome efficiency mindset and more

• Reflections on the ongoing coaching of teams and scaling agile

• Implications of agile coaching for non-software teams

• Coaching for emergence

• Tons of great resources for team coaches and more!

The Agile movement is disrupting organizations and our approaches to working, learning and teaming. All team coaches need to increase their own agility and to be fit for purpose themselves in order to compete in the knowledge and collaboration economy. Tune in to this episode and let Gabe Abella help you elevate your team coaching game today!