Whether your responsibilities are executive, administrative, or service, we offer effective, immediate solutions for social challenges common to ANY workplace by exploring the improviser's toolbox. Our interactive corporate workshops can focus on any or many of these tenets:

Feel free to choose a single topic or mix and match. We often create hybrid teambuilding programs based upon the client's immediate needs.

INNOVATION 3-D: Dream, Dare, Deal

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Innovation is about CREATING unique and never-before-experienced situations. In the marketplace, innovation is taking risks and creating something new for the consumer by challenging yourself, those around you, and the current standards. It is increasing quality in products, processes and services by considering all possibilities. It takes being fearless, focused, and open to fantastic opportunities. Good improvisers do ALL of this.

Improvisation focuses on bringing your personal awareness "into the moment," and developing understanding for the action at hand. This fusion of "awareness" and "understanding" allows you to act with a range of options that best fit any given situation, even if you’ve never experienced similar circumstances. Improvisation is about being brave enough to put the pieces of the world together in new and unorthodox ways. It’s thinking in completely open ways and saying yes to the ideas generated. It creates building blocks and lays the foundation for the ideas that will ultimately be most successful, though they may not seem it initially. Being a good improviser is imperative to any “creation situation.”

STAFF DEVELOPMENT TOPICS:

TEAMWORK

We are all members of many teams: work, family, sports, friends. And it’s no coincidence that we should pull from the same box of communication tools to succeed on each of those teams. This corporate training session explores your social skills toolbox and its uses for building the strongest teams possible.

   •     Empower participants to be a force on ANY team
   •    Acknowledge discomfort
   •    Dissolve negativity in the workplace
   •    Dismantle obstacles

COMMUNICATION

This corporate training session explores the intricacies of working without a script and how to communicate effectively with your teammates, verbally and non-verbally. We teach how to be clear when giving information and filter through the onslaught of information from those around us. ComedySportz specializes in making hysteria hysterical.

   •    Work without a script
   •    Strengthen "verbal" and "non-verbal" tools
   •    Utilize status for resource rather than intimidation
   •    Articulate your intentions (what’s obvious to you is not always obvious to them)
   •     “The 3 Ts” - Tolerance, Tact, Trust Your Gut

PRESENTATION SKILLS

“If ALL the world is a stage...why am I holding the mic?” Whether it’s a presentation to clients, a town council meeting or an impromptu toast at a dinner party, at some point we are all called upon to speak before a group. This corporate training session teaches you to upstage your fear by creating an awareness of self, others and environment. Confidence is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    •     Upstage your fear
    •     Make it look easy (improv requires rehearsal, too)
    •     Navigate IN the moment (prevent yourself from getting lost in your thoughts)
    •     Be prepared for tech/AV failure
    •     “Gesture, not jester” – amplify without over exaggerating

RISK TAKING and CHANGE

This corporate training session revitalizes your team with tools and the inspiration to view the world playfully. Finding creative goals and solutions are the name of the game in any industry. And everybody plays!

As the chaos of the world whirls around us, it is very easy to get comfortable right where we’re sitting…on our potential. The risk is that we will become bored with the world, or it will become bored with us--neither of which is good for business.

    •     You have no choice as to whether or not you will create, only what you will create
    •     Sometimes you just have to go
    •     Don’t panic--the minute you take a step, conditions WILL change
    •     Be present and exist in the moment
    •     Celebrate failure to avoid failing

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress: the world’s most abundant resource.

No matter where you turn or what you do, stress is always an option. There’s never enough time, you can’t get there from here, your computer’s slow, traffic’s jammed, and somebody ate the last Krispy Kreme! We all know what it feels like to have our optimism and enthusiasm ground to a powder in the daily grind.

This corporate training session teaches you to keep a playful attitude in the wake of the not-so-playful stressors. Improv is about never losing sight of your choices.

    •     Channel your energy
    •     Tackle FEAR of embarrassment and failure
    •     Resolve conflicting agendas in the workplace (“I like my job, but I don’t like you”)
    •     Keep it about what it’s really about
    •     The only difference between a weapon and a tool is intention; choose wisely

CUSTOMER SERVICE

The customer is always right, even when...they’re not. This corporate training session teaches you how to harvest new nerves when a customer is on your last one!

Creating a great customer experience is vital to new and repeat business. The better your team is, the more your customers will tell the world to do business with you.

    •    Determine what your “audience” wants
    •    Keep a level head, despite what/how/why they want it
    •    Accept offers and make it happen
    •   Pick up where other teammates left off

If you have an office climate challenge which isn't addressed here, please tell us about it. We are masterful at building an ensemble; we will proudly customize and build a program to suit your specific need.