Improv Skills

Why Soft Skills Matter

The Benefits of Play for Adults: How Play Can Improve Your Health, Work, and Family Relationships

The Science and Art of Listening

What Great Listeners Actually Do

Scott Adams' Secret of Success: Failure

When Stress Takes Over, Employee Burnout Can Set In

You Probably Hate Your Job — But You Don’t Have To

Why Screwing Things Up Is Crucial to Your Well-Being

Why We Desire But Reject Creative Ideas

Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment? Managing Interruptions in the Workplace

The Health Benefits of Practicing Improv

Using Comedy Improv as Therapy

Improv in the Workplace

Improvising to Improve Business

Why Improv Training Is Great Business Training

Why Using Improvisation to Teach Business Skills Is No Joke

How Improv Made Its Way into Corporate America

Science Provides The Best Argument For Taking An Improv Class: We Are All Creative "Types"

Getting to "Yes, And"

Want to Be More Creative? Think on Your Feet

When the Art of the Deal Includes Improv Training

34 Reasons To Learn Improv

3 Improv Exercises That Can Change the Way Your Team Works

Improv Helps Ph.D.'s Explain Their Work—and Loosen Up

Attention, All Scientists: Do Improv, With Alan Alda’s Help

"School's a Joke" Makes Learning Grammar Fun with Improv

Comedic Skills for a Serious Role: Improv Class Teaches Med Students to Think on Their Feet

3 Ways Improv Training Can Improve Customer Service

Videos

Going Beyond "Hello": Dan Klein at TEDxStanford

Your Brain on Improv: Charles Limb at TEDxMidAtlantic

Smith College 2012 Commencement Speaker Jane Lynch

Braving the Unknown: Susan Messing at TEDxUChicago 2014

The Way of Improvisation: Dave Morris at TEDxVictoria

A Place of Yes: Mick Napier

Books

Jill & Patrick's Small Book of Improv for Business

The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work

Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques for Trainers and Managers to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning

Improv Yourself: Business Spontaneity at the Speed of Thought

Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration — Lessons from The Second City

Relax, We're All Just Making This Stuff Up!

Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

Innovation At the Speed of Laughter: 8 Secrets to World Class Idea Generation