Goals of the workshop
Use improv techniques and exercises to develop and strengthen key business skills such as creative thinking, collaboration, presence and active listening, in a fun environment.
Business Applications
- Team building
- Collaboration and support
- Trust
- Active listening
- Getting to know other team members
- Presentation skills
- Presence: letting your authentic self come through
- Loosening up in front of a group in business context
- Thinking on your feet
- Focusing on the audience/client
- Persuasion
- Eye contact
- Vocal delivery
- Creative thinking and brainstorming
- Relationships
- Reading your audience through scene work and active listening
- Approaching conflict or tense situations
Sample Curriculum
Note: Actual curriculum will be based on specific client needs/requests, duration of the workshop and size of the group. Total number of attendees should be at least 5 and at most 20. Workshop can last anywhere between 2 and 6 hours.
- Warm-ups
- Work on basic skills like eye contact and vocal strength
- Get participants to know one another
- Team work on basic tasks
- Start breaking through fears of expressing oneself in front of a group
- Basic exercises
- Foundation of improv: "Yes, and..."
- Experience difference between negating, supporting and contributing
- Develop active listening
- Continue to build on communication skills like eye contact, vocal delivery and movement
- Increase comfort level in front of a group
- Advanced exercises
- Work on brainstorming and creative thinking
- Learn to focus on audience/client/scene partner
- Deepen active listening skills
- Work on persuasion and emotional connection
- Push past safe comfort zone
- Showcase
- Final exercise done in smaller groups which synthesizes the skills developed during the workshop. Exercise will culminate in a largely improvised presentation which relates to the client's business.
After some exercises, a brief discussion will take place about what was learned from the exercise, and how those skills can be used in a business context. Whenever appropriate or needed, the business application of the exercise will be reinforced either by doing the same exercise using real business scenarios, or a different exercise which focuses on the same skills.
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