4 STEPS 2 SUCCESS...
WITH CORPORATE CREATIVE CONFIDENCE WORKSHOPS
The tool is the magic of comedy improvisation within our carefully constructed Model called 4 STEPS 2 SUCCESS.
So how does Improvisation Helps Creative Confidence?
 | Loosens up thinking, allowing new neural pathways to emerge in brain |
| Performing to an audience raises the arousal level to peak performance |
| Investing emotion in an improv game stretches boundaries of behaviour |
| Abstaining from judgement before speaking allows novel ideas to flourish |
| The improv mantra (“Yes, and…”) creates a constructive mindset and promotes a “Future Positive” outlook. |
| Embracing the chaos of an unplanned exchange with a team member promotes continuous discovery and develops awareness of new capabilities. |
| Newly discovered Creative Confidence Resources are unleashed. |
What's the benefit of improvisation exercises and games to business creativity?
Improvisational structures are governed by rules that require participants to accept and cooperate with each other, listen interactively, and jointly advance the action of a given task while continually supporting each other to be successful
Improvisation fosters successful collaboration. To succeed, participants must attend to their partners' communication and accept and build upon each other's actions while remaining as flexible as possible. As a result, everyone is empowered to interactively discover his or her inherent creative potential.
Can this kind of away-day really be of use to business and the corporate sector?
When you're exposed to an improvisational workshop, you'll see that the tools you'll learn to use -- such as taking risks, accepting each others ideas, exploring them and moving them forward -- are exactly the tools that people in the business world have to develop to foster ideas under pressure. If people in organizations are unable to think under pressure, build ideas, challenge assumptions and think creatively, their survival will be hampered.
You may not end up thinking about how you can improvise at work, however. But what you may want to know is: "How can people at work share ideas with each other?" Most of the trouble with sharing our ideas derives from our fear that we'll be judged for our ideas and our fear of looking foolish.
Bottom line - what's the business benefit?
To have people in your business act more creatively means they will generate new solutions and have the motivation to implement them. Can any business today afford not to invest in the most innovative and effective technologies to maximise the return on their most expensive asset - its people? If your competitors aren't already using these techniques - maybe you should!
So what does the workshop day look like?
A typical workshop program (which is always customised to specific needs)
| Introduction & Scene Setting |
| Group Exercise to generate peak confident performing state |
| Improv Game 1 – A-Z - in pairs |
| Improv Game 2 – Poetry in Motion - solo |
| Improv Game 3 – Duelling Topics – in pairs |
| Lunch Break |
| Improv Game 4 – Two Headed Professor – in pairs |
| Improv Game 5 - Defend Opposite Position – solo |
| Improv Game 6 – Round Robin – Neighbour Impressions |
| SHOW – preparation |
| SHOW – performing best sequences to emerge during the day |
| Roundup of Learnings/Insights and how to apply as life/workplace skills |
What's my next step?
Contact us by email or phone and we can offer you a fuller description of how our 4 Steps 2 Success can help your business become more successful.
"Something magical happens when people let themselves go, enter a flow state where anything that happens is useful, can be built on and can go in any direction. The results obtained are invariably beyond what could have been achieved by traditional brainstorming"