Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership and Learning
"Kat Koppett has completed a courageous and conscientious job in writing this book. She brings new perspective to the training and management scene, She provides practical guidance to trainers and managers who have become aware that the complex chaos in today's workplace requires something different from the standard, systemic, rational approach. Many scholars are now offering conceptual frameworks that incorporate improvisation into management science and instructional design. Rather than writing another such academic tome, Kat provides a practical sourcebook.A word about the structure of the book. Some people prefer to progress from the general to the specific while others prefer to move in the opposite direction. Kat lets us have our cake and eat it too. The first part of the book provides us with six powerful improv principles and their potentia; applications to management and training. The second part of the book provides tightly-structured directions for using 50 specific activities--along with a clear explanation of how the basic principles are incorporated in each activity. Bravo, Kat! What are you going to do for an encore?"