1. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Improv for IT Executives Creativity, Collaboration, Communication Jim Tosone Director, Healthcare Informatics Pfizer Inc

2. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC What is Improv? Set of Games Originally for Child Actors Used to Create Sketch Comedy

3. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Value in the Workplace Increase Comfort with Change Deepen Relationships Though Adaptive Communication Enhance Think-On-Your-Feet Creativity Foster Seamless Collaboration

4. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Improv Games Dr.-Know-It-All Rewind ABC Mirror

5. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Ground Rules Be Sensitive Dont Worry About Being Funny There is No Do – Only Try

6. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Dr. Know-It-All 3 People Line Up as Dr. Know-It-All Audience Asks Questions Dr. Know-It-All Answers with One Word Per Person in Sequence

7. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Rewind Improvise a Two-Person Scene When I Ring Bell –Replace Last Line Spoken –With a Different Line

8. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC ABC Improvise a Two-Person Scene Dialog Alternates Alphabetically –First Line Starts with A –Second Line Starts with B –Last Line Starts with Z

9. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Mirror Pair Up Stand Facing Each Other Lock Eyes Follow each others movement exactly –Head, Arms, Body, Legs Transfer the lead back and forth

10. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Use Games Situationally Creativity Collaboration Communication

11. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Improv Principles Initiate Ideas Acknowledge & Accept Ideas Build on Ideas Stay in the Moment Make Mistakes

12. ImprovMeansBusiness TM ©2009 Tosone Associates LLC Improv Means Business TM Jim Tosone www.ImprovMeansBusiness.com www.ImprovMeansBusiness.com jim@tosoneassociates.com