About the Improv Advantage
In everything I do to help people Connect, Collaborate and Be Ready I do with an Improv Advantage. From improved team communication and collaboration, relationship building, negotiating skills, influencing skills, critical thinking, leadership, gaining buy-in, earning trust, to making high velocity decisions. The Improv Advantage will help you and your team go the extra mile and separate from the rest! Just look at some examples from academic research that shows the Improv Advantage:
Divergent Thinking
“Improvisation encourages people to break away from set patterns of thinking.” –Carine Lewis, Peter J. Lovatt; University of Hertfordshire, UK
Listening
“Good listening was consistently seen as a two-way dialogue, rather than a one-way ‘speaker versus hearer’ interaction. The best conversations were active.” –Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman; Harvard Business Review
Negotiation
“Cooperative improvisation yielded more successful negotiations.” –Paul Ingram, William Duggan; Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
Strategic Intuition
“Strategic intuition is a model of improvisation that applies to situations new to the manager. Probably no one has faced exactly the same situation, but there are countless examples from history that can fit different pieces of the problem. You improvise a new combination to suit the problem at hand.” –Paul Ingram, William Duggan; Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
Decision Making
“Without improvisation, emergency management loses flexibility in the face of changing conditions.” –David Mendonca, Giampiero E.G. Beroggi, William A. Wallace; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Problem Solving
“Improvisation shows us creativity in action. It shows that – in art, as in life – failures and mistakes can be turned into chances for original and unpredictable achievements.” –Alessandro Bertinetto, University of Udino
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“We argue for the role of improvisation to be incorporated as an essential component in the teaching and assessing of teamwork that leads to creativity and/or creative output.” –Rachael Hains-Wesson, Vikki Pollard, Angela Campbell; Deakin University