What we do is our song – our actions, emotions, the way we walk down the street, and the way we create our desired results – or not, how we speak, move, breathe, solve problems, celebrate success, deal with disappointment – you get it.

music team building, Team BuildingFace The MusicJanuary 28, 2020music team building, Leadership development, Leadership Activities, #ftmteams, Paul Kwiecinski

Singing & Learning with Face The Music

Hearing those women share gave me a personal, heartfelt connection with people in the business world and gave me a human perspective on the struggles we all share, no matter what our beliefs, history, or means may be.

Team BuildingFace The MusicSeptember 4, 2019music team building, Leadership Activities, corporate team building, corporate team building companies, experiential learning, Face The Music, corporate conference

Reframing for New Possibilities

What does Ed Wood and your new list of business challenges have in common?

For this weeks video blog: “How to write a blues lyric”, FTM created a quick 30 second video in the style of a quirky grade B movie genre.

Face The MusicMarch 20, 2019Leadership Activities, music team building, blues, songwriting, corporate team building companies, team building activities for employees, #ftmteams, songwriting team building, singwriting exercise, corporate team building

Follow up: CPR in Action 2

A few weeks ago Face The Music posted an article on a leadership activity—CPR (Context, Purpose & Results). The feedback was positive and grateful. A consultant asked if we had a sample CPR so we’re providing this example from an event planner for a music team building she was putting on.

Face The MusicFebruary 20, 2019music team building, corporate team building, corporate team building activities, corporate team building companies, team building activities, #ftmteams

Innovative Approach to Organizational Change Featured in New Publication

Excerpt: It’s the old E-Myth principle where businesses are started by technicians or specialists who haven’t acquired the basic business skills or knowledge, or still assume that business acumen is a minor part of the new business equation. If you’re a yoga instructor, do you really want to start a studio? As an engineer, is starting a company to develop, produce, and market your tech invention the way to go to serve your purpose?

Face The MusicFebruary 19, 2019music team building, Leadership Activities, #ftmteams

Music Team Building on Steroids!

See how Face The Music used their music team building process to facilitate 1700 people to meet, network and write and perform their own songs in an hour and a half. The event was for the NAIS People of Color Conference and took place in New Orleans.

Team BuildingFace The MusicFebruary 11, 2019#musicteambuilding, Leadership Activities, #ftmteams, Team building Leadership activities, music team building, teambuildingsedona, teambuildingnyc

CPR: Context, Purpose, & Results

CPR is a powerful tool to focus clearly on what you would like to attain from an event, a project, a meeting, or an action. By clearly stating all the results you would like to obtain, stating the purpose of the activity, and developing a context from which to operate, you focus your intent powerfully and take a direct path to where you wish to go.

Face The MusicFebruary 5, 2019Leadership Activities, Leadership development, team building with music, music team building, teambuildingsedona, #ftmteams

Musing on Leadership Development

Leaders determine what happens. Everything we see, know, and experience is (or was) made up. There are extant environmental conditions and facts, and someone gives meaning to them based on their beliefs, values, and personal history, and they envision what’s next and make decisions on how to go about manifesting that—leading the action that will make it happen. They make it up…

Face The MusicJanuary 15, 2019Leadership Activities, Leadership development, teambuilding, music team building, #ftmteams

What's Your Story?

Telling a story well creates a personal connection (often very strongly) between your audience and your message. Effective stories can change opinions; inspire us to achieve goals that we didn't think were possible; and they can show people how we can change things for the better.

Face The MusicDecember 19, 2018storytelling, effective leadership, Innovation, Leadership Activities, music team building, #ftmteams

Innovating in the UK

I want to share a little vignette on an innovative experience of my own that helped me to complete my work. The fact that the need for the innovation was due to my own poor planning will not be the point I am emphasizing, but I was able to find a way to get my work done and keep my clients served.

Face The MusicNovember 12, 2018Team building Leadership activities, Innovation, music team building, teambuildingsendoa, corporate team building companies, team building activities for employees, teambuildingsedona Comment

5 Things You Can Do to Increase Your Team's Performance

There are a lot of issues that can come in to play: fragmented teams, constant change of focus and direction, communication and cooperation, office politics, leadership styles, alignment, etc. What are the key things that you can focus on to make a difference?

Team BuildingFace The MusicSeptember 28, 2018music team building, team performance, corporate team building, mojo, team building with music, leadership development, employee engagement, teambuilding, team building activities for employees, teambuildingsendoa, companies that use team building, Leadership activities, #ftmteams

What it Takes to Win

There’s being in the game, and then there’s going for the gold! What does it take to stand out from the pack and deliver a winning performance?

Face The MusicSeptember 4, 2018Team building, Team building Leadership activities, music team building, leadership development exercise, team building activities for employees, teambuildingsendoa, #ftmteams

Using Sparks to Start a Fire

—ideas and inspirations seem to spring up randomly for me, popping into consciousness with a “look at me” and hopefully getting recognition. There seems to be a tough row to hoe in tracking them somehow, evaluating which I should put my energy into, and then acting on them in a focused and powerful way.

Face The MusicAugust 1, 2018Innovation, music team building, leadership activities, leadership development, brainstorm, brainstorming, team building activities for employees, teambuildingsendoa, #ftmteams

Transformational Leadership: Develop Your Paradigm

Transformation is the evolution or revolution of an operating paradigm to one that is more encompassing of realities not allowed, considered, accounted for, or contained in the previous frame of reference.

Face The MusicJune 12, 2018leadership activities, music team building, team building with music, corporate conference, leadership development exercise, teambuildingsendoa, #ftmteams

The Musical Life

Exploring the intersections between music, learning, and leadership development with Paul Kwiecinski

Face The MusicApril 27, 2018Innovation, team building with music, music team building, leadership development, corporate team building, corporate conference, team building activities for employees, #ftmteams

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