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Think Quickly On Your Feet

Think Quickly On Your Feet. Spontaneous Ideas From an Improv Career Coach. Leader. You know you want me!. My Background. B.A. English Lit U of Wisconsin. 10 th year as Career Coach. Improv Training: The Players Workshop The Second City Theater Chicago Improv Fest.

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Think Quickly On Your Feet

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  1. Think Quickly On Your Feet Spontaneous Ideas From an Improv Career Coach Leader You know you want me!
  2. My Background B.A. English Lit U of Wisconsin 10th year as Career Coach Improv Training: The Players Workshop The Second City Theater Chicago Improv Fest National Improv Presentations Association of Nutrition & Food Service Professionals 2013 Association Forum of Chicago, Holiday Showcase Public Library Association, Philadelphia
  3. Improvisational Coating Career Coach Nougat
  4. Stage acting techniques are based on spontaneity and the understanding of human behavior. Improvisation provides an excellent training ground for developing peopleskills.
  5. The 5 Elements of Improv Acceptance Spontaneity Trust Communication Building Each improv exercise we participate in contains one or more of these.
  6. No, but ….. Yes, and …..
  7. Prepared You’ve already figured it out. Ready Surprise!
  8. Lafftur
  9. Get out of your head! Stop thinking and start doing!
  10. Improv Games Circle Hand Clap or 1-10 Hand Clap Zip Zap Zup + Emotions Word Association & Build a Story Dr. Know It All – 4 Gen’s Yes, and vs. No, but Gibberish / 1Word Sentences / Full English Partners: Yes, and & No, but Conducted Emotions
  11. PLAI We try to teach answers as if we know what future problems we will face. Instead, we should focus on developing proficiency, the ability to use information skillfully. Promote Learning thru Active Interchange Dr. Barry Shipley UConn
  12. Dr. Barry Shipley UConn The act of playing produces unexpected results that require participants to rethink their perspectives and assumptions. Children laugh per day _____ Adults laugh per day _______ Harvard Medical School Study
  13. Success MagazineMay 2012 “An Office Where Funny Business Is Encouraged” Why workplace teams that share laughs do better and more profitable work. ~ Stephanie Dolgoff ~
  14. Office Hugh More Bonds the staff Levels the hierarchy Breaks tension in a stressful, deadline-driven environment
  15. A Fungi or A Fun Gal A study from the University of Miami School of Business shows a fun or funny manager can be ingratiatory—i.e., helpful in getting people to do what you want, essentially because they like you and want to be around you more.
  16. Take Away New strategic thinking is using fewer of your own thoughts yet connecting them with your collaborators to create shared outcomes which would not be produced if just one person did all the thinking.
  17. Enhancing Leadership CompetenciesImprovisational skills help enhance performance and awareness in core competencies such as: • Presence - being fully in the moment, listening, and paying attention • Thinking on Your feet - ability to respond confidently in the moment while under pressure • Real-time adapting - adapting strategy as new information and situations emerge • Inspiration - drawing forth the energy, passion, and assets in others • Discovery - new and surprising solutions to old and new situations http://www.creativeemergence.com/improvforleaders.html
  18. Resourcefulness- recognizing and using the unexpected as opportunity • Resilience – bouncing back quickly after "failures" or dead ends • Impactfulness - engaging risk taking and spontaneous behaviors from others • Influence - getting buy-in and support for your initiatives • OURS thinking - fostering team thinking in terms of "Look what WE did!“ • Taking action - apply techniques to improve systems, products and processes http://www.creativeemergence.com/improvforleaders.html
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