Facilitators must choose how to demo activities: themselves, a volunteer, or through instruction. Each shapes learning differently, with benefits and risks. The key is matching approach to purpose, group readiness and outcome.
Ever wondered if you can assess the extent to which a facilitator has improvisation skills, by observing their interactions during an activity?
I’m often asked, ‘What makes a good activity in applied improvisation?’. Well, more truthfully I was once asked this once in an interview.
Here’s what I said…
Whether you are teaching online or off, there’s a crucial difference between building skills and pointing out people’s deficiencies..
Much of what happens in work is unpredictable. An improvisational attitude invites you to trade the illusion of control for the reality of influence..
We are seeing a lot more articles about the use of improvisation in organisations. Much of the action is on the West Coast of the USA, especially centred on Silicon Valley. Although we are seeing more applied improvisation coming from the UK.
