• training courses and workshops that deliver better results

• your training re-designed with the latest principles of accelerated learning

• to equip your trainers or leaders with facilitation and improvisation skills

• skilled facilitators and coaches to design and deliver events to the highest standards

• Team Building

• The Inspirational Edge

• Leadership

• Inspirational Presentation Skills

• Team Briefing

• Creativity and Problem Solving

• Creativity and Innovation

• Facilitation Skills

• Writing for Results

• Coaching for Results

• Negotiating and the Art of Influence

• Solutions - No Problem

• Train the Trainer with Accelerated Learning

• Training Programme Design & Enrichment

• Training, Consultancy & Coaching with a Solutions Focus

• Training in Writing For Results

• Coaching for Managers

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’.

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.

“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.

‘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.