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You're a creative person with many creative ideas that want and need to come out...like gas! Participating in an improvisation based program (class, workshop, seminar, lecture, team building/making/enhancing, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 weekend or week long retreat) is a great way for you and your people to truly meet each other, improve communication between the different groups/divisions within your company that may feel a sense of competition or never actually communicate with each other. From the Executive team to the Janitorial staff, everyone is important and included. Everyone should get to play.
Improvisation helps to create a friendly social atmosphere. It helps your team “break the ice”, break free from the grip of uncomfortable shyness and improves their skills for press interviews, meetings with new clients or even first dates! Through fast paced learning, improv exercises and fun energetic games played in a relaxed and supportive environment, true bonding can be established. Once you have played with some one, the dynamic of the relationship is bound to change for the better and everyone will walk away with a sense of freedom, happiness and empowerment! Oh...and its a lot of fun too!
One more benefit of Improvisation is getting to play with one of our extremely attractive, talented and funny facilitators.
If that answer is not good enough for you, a simple Google search of "Value of Improvisation" will fill your reading list for the next 2 months.
Recent university research studies conducted by Co-founder & Director of Instructional Technology and Training, Keith Hmieleski and Professor Andrew Corbett reveals that entrepreneurs and business leaders choose to use various proven improvisational tactics in their processes when resources, like time, are limited and challenges are high. Their extensive research clearly showed that improvisation, in the right situations, is a highly successful strategy.
Frank Ruffs’ detailed research on organizational improvisation published in Future magazine in 2004, states that improvisation is an important strategy for corporations to deal with “wild card” or unforeseen crises and unpredicted change. Improvisation, as a strategy for dealing with the unknown, is also utilized by EMS workers, police, military, firefighters and security personnel. We can also witness the fine skills and tenets in theater and music, particularly Jazz & Blues. In sales terms, think of improvisation as being intentionally flexible on how to reach a goal. Knowing what your current state is and where you want to be is important, but which path you take will depend on the circumstances of the moment. This is much harder than it sounds because it relies on giving up the attempt to control.
Keith Sawyer, Professor of psychology/education at Washington University in St. Louis said: “To me Improvisation is right in-between performing in a completely scripted and planned usual manner…and at the other extreme, acting in a way that is completely unrestrained”. Improvisation is the balance; that space in-between structure and freedom. Some degree of structure and some degree of freedom guiding your path"
Stephan Nachmanovitch, Author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art said: “When people get of the plan or when they’re having to adapt in the moment they are thinking that's a bad thing…”Oh I hate it when I don’t know what’s going on…I hate it when I don’t know what to do". We are all improvising with each other all the time. We are listening to each other, responding each other, connecting each other, reacting to each other. So, there is nothing special about improvisation its all very ordinary and it is a set of capacities and gifts that everybody uses constantly”.
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