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Latest "Improv" News from Google Alerts
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Latest "Improv" News from Google Alerts
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jerry Kail Oct. 31, 2008.
Jerry Kail's Groups
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Improv & Business Rela...
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Chicago 2008 AIN Confe...
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Book of case studies
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The Open Inner Sanctum
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Midwest US AIN
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- Where do you live and work? (City)
- Dayton/Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Professional Skills
- Unleashing potential, improving performance, & facilitating personal change by:
Conducting performance needs analyses;
Designing, conducting, and sourcing training programs and teambuilding sessions;
Conducting change management initiatives.
- What is your main interest in this network?
- Education, Social, Networking, Finding Partnerships, Improv Resources
- What kind of person are you?
- Morning
- What kinds of improv-related services are you involved in?
- Teambuilding, Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Change Management
- Share a favorite 'improv epiphany'
- Effective human interaction comprises equal parts "making offers" and "accepting offers." "Making offers" = asserting your needs & opinions, moving the action in a useful direction, telling the other what you want. "Accepting offers" = listening, following, approaching others with a spirit of curiosity and inquiry, asking the other what s/he wants.
- More about you: (Short Bio or any other details you'd like people to know)
- Jerry Kail is an Organization Development Consultant who has served in a variety of roles in both an internal and an independent capacity. His expertise includes consulting on organizational effectiveness issues with internal clients; designing and facilitating group work sessions; and developing, conducting, and managing training programs in such areas as leadership, teamwork, change management, and creative thinking. Jerry also has developed several training and teambuilding programs using techniques and concepts derived from improvisational theater. He has published a number of articles on the application of improv concepts to organizations and has presented several interactive sessions on improv applications to business, professional, and academic groups. He is a co-founder of the Applied Improvisation Network and has been active in planning North American AIN Conferences since 2002. Jerry has also performed with several improv troupes in the Southwest Ohio area.
- I need help with...
- My elevator speech!! (See my blog post, "Impressions from Banff.")
- Blog or other personal website
- http://the-daily-improviser.blogspot.com/
- How did you hear about this network?
- I am a co-founder of the AIN.
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Jerry Kail's Blog
Boom Boom - Out Go the Lights!
You may be wondering what it wou… Continue
Posted on August 8, 2009 at 9:31am —
The Daily Improviser Hits the Road (and Shares the Space)!
"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign / Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind"
"Signs," by The Five Man Electrical Band
Today I’d like to introduce you to Jake Straw, a man who, when confronted with the very idea of improv theater, is guaranteed to say:
What? Throw away the script? Have the actors interact with the audience and let them drive the scene? Give up control… Continue
Posted on August 8, 2009 at 9:00am —
The Three Laws of Performance - The Improv Connection (Part 1)
I admit it: There are times when I wonder if my quest to build bridges between the worlds of improv and Organizational/Human Development isn’t just a bit quixotic. And then the world drops a connection into my lap that encourages me to keep tilting.
I had such an experience as I completed reading The Three Laws of Performance, by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. In the n… Continue
Posted on June 27, 2009 at 1:00pm —
The Three Laws of Performance
Improvisational theory is deeply ingrained (even if not always so acknowledged) in the current thinking about the best ways to maximize organizational performance. A recent book titled The Three Laws of Performance, by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, continues spinning this implicit thread of connections between the improv stage and the wo… Continue
Posted on June 4, 2009 at 5:40pm —
Learning Improv from Someone Who Couldn’t Ad Lib a Belch after a Plate of Goulash
(Some thoughts upon reading an article about one of my comic heroes, Jack Benny.)
Jack Benny may not have been the funniest man in the world, but he was definitely in the top two (along with Groucho Marx). A classic Benny routine illustrates an important point about being an… Continue
Posted on March 9, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Thanks for the response to my blog post. I hear you're a former Smarty Pants-er. That's fantastic! I'm currently part of the troupe, too. Hope all is well in your neck of the woods. -Briana
Thanks for the prompt and warm welcome! I am thrilled to be abroad, er... aBOARD! (Sorry - long day so far and that started out as a typo...). I am all ears to accept any other advice you may have. I'm just getting the hang of this e-conferencing etc...
A couple of those photos looked suspiciously like Banff - what did you think of the place? My family shares a place in Canmore, located about 20 minutes west on the main highway. It's much less crowded and equally beautiful. Those mountains are something else, aren't they? Sounds like you enjoyed the conference. I'm choked that I found out about your group AFTER it was over D-oh!
I'm thinking of changing my photo - I actually do have a forehead & hair. what say you?
Thanks for writing!
Beve
Thanks again!
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