This document discusses how improvisation skills can benefit businesses. It defines improvisation as making quick actions without prior planning using available materials and sources. The main benefits of improvisation for businesses are that it increases responsiveness, raises energy and positivity, provides a fun work environment, fosters thinking on your feet, develops flexible thinking and confidence, and allows new ideas to emerge. The document provides strategies for developing improvisational skills such as paying close attention, communicating information clearly, practicing body language and communication, becoming a quick thinker, and applying the "karaoke rule" of selling performance with confidence.

1. Improvisation
means Business
Strategies to Improve
our Business Performance

2. Improvisation means Business
Introduction
• In an average day, your
environment may change
hundreds of times.
• Understanding the nuances
of each of these
environments has a
tremendous impact on your
ability to perform at your
peak.

3. Improvisation means Business
Introduction
• Improvisation (or Improv) is
generally thought of as funny
entertainment.
• But all of us spend most of our
days improvising.
• The techniques of Improv can
be used in the workplace to
enhance our creativity,
communication, and
performance.

4. Improvisation means Business
Definition
• To perform or make
quickly actions from
materials and sources
available, without previous
planning.
• To compose and perform
or deliver without previous
preparation.

5. Improvisation means Business
Main Benefits
• The benefits of improvisation are:
– It increases our ability to respond
positively in fast moving situations.
– It helps us to raise energy, alertness and
positive feelings, improving our
business self awareness.
– It provides a self-motivating business
environment because it’s fun.
– It fosters the ability to think on your
feet & under pressure.
– It develops confidence in navigating the
unknown, developing flexible thinking.
– It allows new patterns, directions &
prototypes to emerge.

6. Improvisation means Business
Strategies to develop improvisational skills
Don't assume anyone already knows who
you are and what the situation is, learn to
share information to allow time for insights
and new ideas.
Don´t refuse any information that people
share since it can be a starter to an answer
or a new approach.
Pay extremely close attention to what the
other person is saying and how they say it.

7. Improvisation means Business
Strategies to develop improvisational skills
Be aware of your body language, posture
and handshake to make sure you're relaying
the right message: confidence, positivity,
friendliness, and capability.
Learn to add your business experience to
the situation, involving other business
people, the industry or anything else that's
relevant.
Practice, practice and practice. So review
your communication strengths and
weaknesses, and you'll be always prepared.

8. Improvisation means Business
Strategies to develop improvisational skills
Become a quick thinker. Becoming a quick
thinker will help you come up with ideas on
queue, communicate more effectively, and
solve problems more resolutely.
Apply the "karaoke rule“. It states that as
long as you can sell your performance, you
don't have to be the best
singer/dancer/actor, etc. If you're able to
communicate — or just fake — confidence
and charisma, you have a better chance of
convincing others of your idea..

9. Improvisation means Business
Conclusion
• All of these strategies can give
us the ability to respond to
potentially stressful situations
in a more relaxed, productive,
and relationship-building way.
• That is why we should learn
and practice the improv
techniques to allow us to face
our daily business challenges
in a more effective way.

10. Improvisation means Business
Our References
•
The following are referenced in this
presentation:
– http://www.creativeemergence.com/imp
rov.html
– http://www.businessinnovationfactory.c
om/iss/stories/improv-business-yes-and
%E2%80%A6see-how-it-works
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-inprogress/2011/11/10/improvisation-adifferent-way-of-solving-businessproblems-yields-big-rewards/
– http://www.salesopedia.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=11
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11. Improvisation means Business
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