Improvisation for Breakthrough Results
“Prepare to Be Unprepared”
That’s what Amy Poehler, (SNL, Second City, Parks and Recreation) in her 2011 graduation speech to Harvard College, said she learned to do as improviser.
Our roles provide a delicate balance that requires advanced improvisational skills and this is where our experience and training may fall short.
This approach, based on the structure of improvisation games and exercises, allows you to absorb skills naturally without conscious effort. This play-oriented Improvisation approach – which started as a whole new branch of the American Theatre – is now adapted to the needs of leaders and emerging leaders and the specific issues they face in their businesses.
In it, we build our leadership from the inside out. This session offers experimentation and experiential learning to use in your professional and personal lives to great success. The games are designed to stimulate action, relation, spontaneity and creativity in a group setting. It’s learning by doing through first-hand experience – rather than by lecture with data delivery.
You will do what improvisers do to prepare, practice, and succeed when the stakes are high. We’ll take you through improvisation exercises and activities that help you tap into your intuition and inner knowing.
From the improvisation world and the business world, the imperatives are the same:
- Listen
- Work off your partner
- Let go, and trust
- Be in the moment
- Use all of you (not just your mind)
- Work with unpredictability
- Play as one – be an ensemble
- Rely on your personal resources
“I never built community so quickly in my life.” Kirk A., a workshop participant