You Should Try Improv At Work
Zach Ward and DSI Comedy Theater have been offering workshops to corporate clients all across the country for over a decade, introducing comedy concepts to help organizations develop a competitive edge.
Intensive on-your-toes comedy training can be a boon to business. – News & Observer
In the era of Who Moved My Cheese? 2.0 we are experiencing a ‘Rat Race’ with more and more complicated mazes with much less satisfying payoffs once we stop running… IF we ever even stop running to look around. Do you want to work more effectively and HAVE FUN while you do it?
Who answered ‘No’? — That’s what I thought. Nobody.
Comedy techniques help people think on their feet, create new ideas effortlessly, actively listen to others, and work productively as leaders and team players. Improv and comedy workshops can help you learn to read any audience and coach you to develop professional flexibility, making it easier for you to accomodate clients, customers, satisfy management, support peers, and manage conflicts in the workplace.
Interested? You should be. You need to be. So what can you do?
Contact ZW for custom corporate workshops on-site for your organization.
I’ll travel anywhere. East Coast, West Coast, Worldwide.
For those who want to pursue professional development options outside of the workplace, you can locate improv workshops in most major metropolitan areas. I’m happy to provide theater recommendations. In North Carolina? You can study with my theater in Carrboro. Our next round of public improv classes start on Wednesday Aug 25th and Saturday Sept 11th. Check out standup at DSI for public speaking.
YES! AND!
How has improv helped you at work or in life?
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Zach,
I have been in Toastmasters for 4 years to improve my public speaking and communications in the work place. I then took 2 levels of improv comedy at Sak Comedy in Orlando so I agree with you 100%. The power of Yes And has helped me tremendously in my marketing and sales efforts at work. Customers are more cooperative and co-workers are more collaborative. A simple concept that has a huge impact on perception and attitudes of people around me that helps me get more done. Great article!!!
Kevin
Thanks Kevin!
Glad you liked the article. Have you studied a concept called GAME of the Scene? It helps people immediately recognize and effectively work within patterns established at the very start of a conversation or interaction.