Team Building Programme
Improv is a fun, fast-paced and energetic art form. Bring a team together to create a cohesive, enthusiastic unit with a common goal.
- Understand how the individual can contribute to the group goal.
- Recognise that fun and work are not mutually exclusive – do both and improve energy and motivation.
- Enhance communication & group
- Solve problems and overcome obstacles together.
The team building programme overcomes the myth of the individual as a singular creative genius.
Often one person’s initial seed of an idea can lead to lots of wonderful new ideas from others within a group.
Once a team overcomes the individual egos, collaboration, unity and productivity take over…and everyone looks after each other.
Learn to communicate, be creative, take risks and celebrate mistakes; accept and build upon each other’s suggestions.
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.’
Scott Adams
- Listen
- Be fun to work with
- Risk take
- Collaborate
- Communicate
- Connect
Training for Leadership
We are able to provide workshops and activities that will help:
- Improve presentation and communication skills.
- Work together towards a common goal.
- Stay alert to unexpected offers and opportunities.
Creating the right environment for learning and growth is central to any pedagogical philosophy. Learn to create a safe space for risk-taking; connect with people personally; phrase questions that foster creativity and spontaneity; improve motivation and have fun whilst doing it.
- Generate energy and collaboration through icebreakers
- Use fun activities in workshop sessions
- Create an interactive environment
- Create and Innovate from limited resources
- Give positive feedback
Improv your organisation
We live in an unscripted world…
As much as you rehearse for the job interview, for the presentation or that wedding speech, the minute there’s other people involved, the script goes out the window.
- Make an impression
- Think on your feet
- Throw yourself into the moment…and improvise
Innovation, collaboration and creativity:
Improvisation techniques are recognised as an effective learning tool for anyone wishing to communicate confidently in any workplace.
Improvisation workshops teach you to think quickly and confidently as a team.
Unlock creativity with limited information, sparse resources and continuous change in a fun, fast-paced environment.
The key skills:
- Teamwork
- Strong leadership with the ability to accept (and build on) others’ ideas
- Easily adapt and deal with unexpected challenges
- Accomplish challenging tasks with limited resources
- To have fun, maintain a positive work ethic and accept mistakes with good grace.
Every successful organisation needs to innovate, adapt, listen, engage and communicate…Every successful organisation improvises!
Using Improv to Influence and Persuade
Effective and persuasive communication is essential. We need these negotiation skills when pitching sales or encountering difficult conversations – usually when time is short and the stakes are high. This invigorating and interactive session teaches you how to reduce conflict, overcome ego and simplify negotiation – key tools to develop positivity and persuasion.
Suitable for any interpersonal challenge in sales, customer relations, management, and more…
- Being ‘present’ – an authentic communication process.
- Be ‘solutions focused’ and develop markers that lead to your objectives.
- Develop and exude confidence to tackle difficult but necessary conversations.
- Cultivate a positive working environment with reduced stress.
- Improve your relationships in business and at home.
- Enhance your ability to achieve success in sales.
Open Space facilitation
Open Space (Technology) is a simple and productive way to hold a meeting – suitable for groups anywhere between five and five hundred plus people.
The aim of Open Space Technology is to bring group of people together who have a shared concern. Set the overall objective and the participants set their own agenda, collaborating and self-organising, mixing themselves up and migrating between different conversations.
When to call an Open Space meeting:
- If the question is urgent
- If the question is complex
- If no-one knows the answers
Open Space has been used around the world to tackle a wide variety of complex and diverse issues; it can last anywhere between an afternoon and two days.
There are five principles that describe what happens in an Open Space meeting:
- Whoever comes are the right people.
- Wherever it happens is the right place.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it is over, it is over.
The one law of Open Space is ‘The Law of Two Feet’: If you find yourself in a conversation where you are neither learning nor contributing use the ‘Law of Two Feet’ to take yourself where your presence will be better appreciated – only you know where this is.