Twice within a few weeks we’ve come across articles that encourage using improvisational skills – interpersonal skills learned and practiced in comedy classes – to run good meetings and avoid offending co-workers. There must be something to this!
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Some of the skills identified in THIS ARTICLE include:
- Start with a warm-up activity.
- Use “plussing” to bring out creativity.
- Listen better.
- Be open to changes in direction.
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ANOTHER ARTICLE offers insights into how the Second City comedy troupe – the folks who train television’s Saturday Night Live! regulars – provides classes that help people not offend their co-workers.
This all seems, well, improvable! Pun intended.
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