Why more and more companies are turning to Improv Comedy to help?

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Here are some of the best lessons from the business world today that can come from the school of comedy?

For a growing number of business people, yes, it is possible. Hopes Saturday Night Live to the new person in town, improv comedy has always many students. These days, improvisation classes - beginners and advanced - across the country are likely to have at least one or more professionals in the mixture. In some cases, the entire route in the General Assembly.

Columbia University professor Jesse Scinto said in his Forbes piece , companies like Pepsi and Google phone, some of the best teachers and schools run. You try to build confidence in the public space, building teamwork or a variety of other reasons are the best schools sought unexpected comedy.

For those who doubt, you should understand the basics of improvisation, which can be assigned to a part of society. Both need cooperation, listening and thinking on your feet. If you do not stay in the position at the moment, the desired result is likely to fail. As is the case with companies that improvisation is something that a person to learn and improve. However, if the person is not that it "factor" - ie, comic or business - you have a hard road to success.

"Improv is very helpful, with the teams at the beginning of the projects," says the veteran of improvisation Renee Calarco . Loaded A master of improvisation since 1987 and a founding member of the Washington DC troupe Dropping cow, Renee and to the artists and businessmen running for parts of four decades. "The only rule is to reconcile the rule of improvisation."

The rule of agreement or "-ing Yes" improv circles, as the cooperation with partners from the scene when the scene to build and develop still used. Whether in business or the scene, developing a relationship the key to understanding the origin of the interactions is. Government functioning of the Agreement to its full potential, all participants need to be in the moment. Or how improvisation training center famous Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) teaches: "Do not." How Calarco develop, accept and in the moment creates more thinking within the team.

As a production coordinator for a leading media and entertainment, Jenn La Volpe is usually at three levels of improv classes in New York City in order to improve people Theater (The PIT) - and in turn, an independent team of improvisation he with former classmates is. Explains he, "you can a lot about a person's two minutes into a scene of improvisation with them ... their approach to conflicts, their response to the unknown, to learn." Improv You can often get a quick introduction to people in a team. "You learn to trust them and your partner who is in a frame is a good way to build a team."

It is unclear what exactly these two breeds together. You may have to do with the increase of improv in the media. These days it is easy to identify two UCB co-founder Matt Walsh and Amy Poehler in their respective programs, parks and recreation and Veep. Other notable faces include Oscar-winning writer / actor Jim Rash (descendants, community), Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (Key and Peele) and the hilarious duo of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer city.

This is not the case in the United States alone. Coordinator and know as a digital library for the licensing of international music, Nick Platt, public speaking is so high in his country, England read and the United States have participated in a course on the subject recently, considering "She uses improvisation, to show the importance of trust and roles within groups / public and how we adapt to different situations to change. [The course] works beautifully. "

For those who can not go on stage that improvisation is an environment that encourages experimentation and risk. If a professional is fear of failure to work on a task that improvisation can dispel some of these fears. It is understood that an artist sometimes fail because each time is different. To find your voice, you should explore your skills. Thus, in the improvisation, students will not only increase their teamwork taken back to the office. Also, the confidence in himself was not present, his before.

Whatever the reason for joining the participants always have. Against the basic purpose of improvisation, which is fun The advantages are there to absorb for students. However, if your focus is on the result, probably not benefit from the full measure. As Renee Calarco wants to remind us that "it is important to take a break in the day."