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Improv Theater Workshops: A Great Way to Learn Better Management Skills
Improv your way to better management
The improvisational theater art form has participants creating impromptu stories and scenes, with nothing more to go on other than words suggested to them once they get on stage. Showcased on television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the art form has a long and impressive history as an essential in any actor’s toolkit.
Lately, however, management professionals have begun turning to improv as a way to hone their skills in leadership and entrepreneurship. They sign up for improv classes for help with their listening skills, their ability to observe body language, to think on their feet, and develop as people.
Whether you’re a manager or an entrepreneur, it can help to turn to improvisational theater, as many professionals do today, to better take control of your career.
Improv theater can help you with your listening skills
A keen ear is fundamental to success in improv theater. Your task is to build a narrative or a scene, based on the hints that your fellow actors offer you. You need to be receptive to these hints, and make them a part of your responses, no matter how outlandish they may have to be. If you don’t…
