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Improving your Business
It’s an established reality that improving the communication skills of your employees will increase your business’s ability to succeed – it’s that simple! At the PTW we use Improvisation as our main teaching model. Improvisation is about real people doing real stuff in real time. Often, people are pretty poor at listening. It’s not a skill that’s taught very often. Improvisation forces people to focus on what the other person is saying and so makes them very present.

Confident improvisers create something out of nothing, and given the importance of creating new ideas, relationships and products, business people can be more effective from the teachings of improvisation.

Left brained strategic and analytical skills are important, but your business success often hinges on your ability to connect with others, and unlike many forms of corporate learning, improvisation is fun, completely interactive and relevant to all levels of management. The Piven Theatre Workshop offers custom created educational workshops to improve your business’s communication, collaboration and innovation skills.

Example Workshops

	A. Hubbard Woods Elementary Retreat Participants: Administrators, District Leadership, Class room Instructors. Focus: Creating Community & Collegiality through Productive Conversations & Creative Collaboration Format: based on the book "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High" Activities: Improvisational team building exercises focused on language, conversation, conflict, and story.

	B. Unilever Marketing Retreat Participants: 20 members of various marketing groups Focus: 1.>Fast and Fluid Thinking 2.>Playing outside of the Box 3.>Playing as a Team Format: Introductory acting class Activities: Improvisational skills applicable to team needs: listening, clarity, confidence, risk-taking, performing instinctively and spontaneously.

	C. YMCA of the USA Annual Retreat Participants: Directors of Development and Development Staff Focus: Creative Thinking and Brainstorming Strategies Format: Exploring strategies of creative risk taking using the principle of "Yes and..." Activities: Fun stress releasing exercises to physically and mentally energize the group while focusing on budgets.