Applied Improvisation by Theresa Robbins Dudeck & Caitlin McClure

Author:Theresa Robbins Dudeck & Caitlin McClure
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Impact on the OE Department

My colleagues in the OE Department were already a very Yes, And kind of team when I arrived, so the improv tenets merely reinforced what they were already striving to put into practice. To my eye, the two biggest changes that have happened with this team since being exposed to a regular diet of AI is the expanded toolkit of options they can draw from, and the precision with which they think about creating their learning opportunities. I watch my colleagues verbalize a learning objective, then explore a whole raft of experiences that might help their participants better achieve that objective. They think about how the setup of the room supports or limits their objectives, and they make sure to craft rich debrief questions to help their participants make meaning from each experience. They courageously ask participants to try new things. In a word, they are fearless!

I am especially pleased with the work that our team did to craft experiences for the Tiffany Leadership Development Program, a four-day offsite for a select number of senior leaders. Because of the high-stakes nature of the program, the activities we used were carefully chosen, modified, rehearsed, and set up. Activities included Walk/Stop (inspired by Augusto Boal’s [1992] Space Series) and storytelling exercises like Story Spine,5 and ended with the leaders writing haiku about each other’s successes. One of the participating leaders is now working with our department to create a year-long initiative using AI activities to help her 140-member team communicate and collaborate better.

Among my OE colleagues and former participants, the conversation has shifted from, “Why would we play games to help people learn?” to “What games can we use and how?”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.