The Curious Leader

Leadership, creating safe spaces and taking bold decisions

About the need of communicating in such a way so experts can accept and will follow Reach Horst Michael Schaffer here:jazzbigbandgraz.com [https://www.jazzbigbandgraz.com/] Reach me here: * keynotes: mutig-menschsein.at [https://mutig-menschsein.at/] * the person: karolasakotnik.com [https://karolasakotnik.com/] * culture development, training and coaching: future-skills-farming.com [https://future-skills-farming.com/] Book me as your facilitator for a meaningful conversation wit your team, board or colleagues: meaningful-conversations.online [https://meaningful-conversations.online]

Leadership when the Goal is Inspired Excellence

Leading a Big Band on its journey to "A Quantum Leap in Big Band Jazz" My guest today is Horst Michael Schaffer, in 2003 together with Heinrich von Kalnein took over the artistic leadership of Jazz Big band Graz. He is said to be "A brilliant musician and composer with a sensitive sense for storytelling, beauty and emotion … " - The Guardian (UK) who composes and leads "Music for the heart and the feet …" - Colin Towns, Composer (UK) “… one of the most forward-thinking enterprises in recent jazz.” This is the appraisal that the well-known British composer and musician Colin Towns strikingly made in All About Jazz, about the new sound of the JBBG, with the postscript: “…music for the heart and for the feet”. Our priority was not to simply lay a claim, at any price, to having produced something new. It has been about catching the moment, the here and now, in the 21st century and to live it out. Without cutting ourselves off from current trends, to allow the ideas they engender to have free run and to build on established traditions in a self-evident, natural way. The present moment can serve as a collecting pool in which the increasingly rapid developments in musical trends and artistic impulses can effectively mix, free from restraint and blinkered vision. »A QUANTUM LEAP IN BIG BAND JAZZ” This is what jazz expert Klaus Schulz wrote in the German magazine Jazzpodium about the 2001 Salzburg Autumn Jazz Festival (Salzburger Jazzherbst 2001) appearance of the Jazz Bigband Graz, together with composer-master trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. »… UNCOMPROMISED DEPARTURE FROM BIG BAND STALE AIR.

Future Skills: The Impact on the Organisations´ Success

How to grow trust and confidence in organisations plus the required New Leadership skills John says yes, there is a marvelous positive development. Quite some organisations reflect together with their leadings teams and employees. They also get help to monitor and facilitate the implementation of a positive culture. Johns definition of the skills of a good leader: • asking the good questions • activating the conversations • listen • contribute • and then decide upon what we´ve got, where we want to go and thus which one fits best

Creativity, Leadership and Culture need Confidence

Cultivate confidence, deal with your inner critic and master the art of listening In this episode we discuss the importane of confidence, the German concept of Zuversicht (believing in a positive outcome) and the importance of mastering the art of listening in order to cultivate your curious leadership and be a humble and human New Leader

On the Importance of Courage, Trust and Control

Encouraging to act out of want, not out of fear In my book I name the importance of creating a field where courage, trust and confidence are cultivated as essential future skills for successful New Leaders. John and I discuss this episode on courage, trust and - as we speak business and thus the need of decent results - control as fertile soil, fertilizers or better culture enhancers.