Experience educational fun at our improv-driven interactive learning workshop. We’ll sharpen, tune, and extend your agile leadership skills through improv theater games and activities that you can take back to your teams and organization. Improvisational theater embodies agile. It is team-based, highly collaborative, involves creative problem solving, and requires excellent communication to be successful. It’s more than a training methodology for actors; improv techniques can help teams move towards consensus and alignment, hear all voices, and build trust and respect. Come to this session and discover new ways to think about leading teams!

1. IMPROV:THE FUNNYTHING
ABOUT AGILE
RACHEL WESTON ROWELL
AND
STEVE NEELY

2. WHAT IS IMPROV?
and what does it have to do with agility?

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6. Name Game

7. 1. Person #1 perform your name and movement combo
2. Everyone respond by mirroring that combo
3. Go around circle until everyone has performed their
combo
4. Now, person #1 starts by performing someone else’s
combo
5. When someone performs your combo it’s your turn
6. Go as fast as possible!

9. Team forming

10. Stage Photo

12. Being a good team
member

13. Yes and...

14. 1. You’re a team planning a surprise party
2. Person #1suggests something for the party
3. Any other team member can add a suggestion
4. You must start any suggestion with “yes,but”
5. Continue suggesting until we say “stop”

15. 1. You’re a team planning a surprise party
2. Person #1suggests something for the party
3. Any other team member can add a suggestion
4. You must start any suggestion with “yes, and”
5. Continue suggesting until we say “stop”

17. Open collaborative
communication

18. Red ball

20. Complex human
systems

21. steve.neely@ca.com
@stenvoon
rachel.westonrowell@ca.com
@RachelAWeston
Thank You!