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Rehearsals for Success is PJA's versatile and unique format for training staff to do the right thing. You can use a Rehearsal to create the optimum conditions for success when launching products, services or initiatives.
 
 It's a controlled forum for developing skills such as negotiating, leading a team, running more effective meetings, caring for customers or selling. You achieve more - by practising the changes you want before facing the ‘real world’.
  
 

Conversation as a fundamental unit of change

Conversation is the link between such disparate professional disciplines as coaching, facilitating, training, negotiating and selling.

 

What differentiates each of these activities is their contexts.  Each has a different structure,  a discrete set of rules – in other words, each is a different ‘Game’.

 

How improvisational is your New Year?

A neat way of raising the profile of Applied Improvisation is to notice examples in the world around us, then name them and claim them.  So if you see an individual or an organisation succeeding by tackling something improvisationally, you can point it out.  Likewise, if they seem stuck in a script that no longer serves them well, you might comment on how improvisation might be a more useful response.

Improvising Small Steps

I notice that more than a thousand of us have signed up to be part of the Applied Improvisation Network – http://appliedimprov.ning.com – of which I’m currently president. I’m guessing that means we all have an interest in developing the field of applied improvisation – perhaps to generate more work for ourselves, or to learn more about how improvisation can impact the world of organisations and communities.

 

Impro In Conversations

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin

 

Interactions are at the heart of constructive conversations. In Solutions Focus we have a saying: “The action is in the interaction”. And because each interaction is unique – in context or content – it takes an element of spontaneity to give it value.

 

Impro Connections in Ender’s Game

‘At Battle School Fighting Is Compulsory’ says the banner over the title of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.  This has the reputation of a sci-fi classic and I was prompted to read it when Thiagi mentioned it in his presentation at the Applied Improvisation Network conference in Chicago.

 

My context for reading it is that most of the books I read are non-fiction, and I enjoy peppering these with the occasional luxurious dip into a fictional universe.