Your Team Is An Improv Group
Every team in a business setting is an improv group. I don't care what kind of business you are in or work for - every business team is an improv group. Sure, you may not [...]
Five Ways That Improv Ups Your Business Game
(My first version of this post appeared in PureMatter blog). I am an unabashed humor and improv nerd. And I mean visibly nerdy from space. At 8, the very first presentation I gave to [...]
Improv and Innovation Cafe’: Video
Keeping it Human's Improv and Innovation Cafe' Improv and Innovation: Techniques for Product, Content, Marketing and Communication In this hangout series, I talk about applying improvisation to marketing, communications, and content as well [...]
Applying Improvisation to Improve Agility and Innovation – My Chat with Kat Koppett
On December 12th, I had a great chat with Kat Koppett. Kat is a fellow improviser-in-chief who also applies concepts from stage improvisation to the needs of business to improve performance. This means accepting others [...]
Video: Think Like an Improviser, Speak Like Your Customer – AINx Talk from the 2012 Applied Improv Network World Conference
View my AINx talk from the 2012 Applied Improvisation Network (AIN) World Conference Think Like an Improviser, Speak Like a Customer Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is what customers hear when we drone on about [...]
Yes, and…5 Ways That Improvisation Can Make You a Kick-Ass Marketer
I am a marketer. I am also an improviser. That means I am also a storyteller. Like improvisation, all great marketing is ultimately storytelling. Before I threw myself (slightly kicking and screaming) into improvisation, [...]
Marketing Lessons From the Comedy Stage, Part II
This post is part II of II. To read part I, click here. Truth and authenticity. Truth makes compelling comedy. Great comics talk about what they know - the good, bad, and ugly. Hacks [...]
Marketing Lessons From the Comedy Stage, Part I
Comedy and marketing have much in common. Well, comedy is marketing, really. And some marketing is pretty comical, intentionally or not. Comedy is a priceless education. In addition to 20 years in marketing, my many [...]
“Yes, and!” Your Way from Human Potential to Human Capital
The Center for Creative Leadership writes about four mindsets that inhibit positive organizational change. One of those mindsets that pervades and stops progress in its tracks is a “yes, but…” mentality. You know the type [...]
