professional development training events
specifically designed for previous clients
As these "next step" workshops pick up right where the last one one left off,
all participants are expected to have attended a previous professional development training with Pam Victor
all participants are expected to have attended a previous professional development training with Pam Victor
improv to improve
challenging conversations
This interactive training event brings these complex communication abilities to promote more connecting conversations at work. Applying both improv and mindfulness tenets, professional improviser-facilitator Pam Victor shares her easy-to-follow framework to use improv to improve challenging and connecting conversations.
An Improviser's guide to
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According to the American Psychological Association, 65% of Americans say that work is their top source of stress, which contributes to problems such as headaches, stomachaches, sleep disturbances, short tempers and difficulty concentrating. This workshop uses improv exercises to provide effective tools to reframe and tackle events in order to deal with them from a more centered, calm, and happier place.
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There's listening and there's deep listening. This workshop introduces new exercises to strengthen those deep listening muscles to be more present, open, and available for work discussions. According to George Bernard Shaw, "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." You already know that improv is an effective tool for enhancing communication and collaboration. This workshop takes those skills up a level.
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AN IMPROVISER'S GUIDE TO
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Now that you have the basics of how improv can improve the workplace, let's focus on how the team can better be of service to each other, to the company's mission, and to the moment itself. This workshop also helps members of your team collaborate and innovate more productively by reframing engagement, brainstorming, and individual contributions as being of service to the group rather than "being selfish" or shining the spotlight on oneself. How can you best be of service to the moment? the team? the company? your colleagues?
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As business leader Philip Crosby said, “Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.” At its very core, improv is the practice of quieting fears in order to change and adapt to each new reality. Fear of failure, the unknown, risk-taking, and losing control all impede our ability to accept the changing reality of the moment and move forward with more agility and ease. Now that you've been introduced the basics of improv in the workplace, you're ready to focus deeply on how the tools of improv can improve the team's ability to say, "Yes, and..." to changes in the plan.
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quiet the inner critic Even More
with Pam Victor
You've been introduced to the internal messengers of unhelpful judgment and fear (aka "CUJO") and learned some key techniques for quieting those messages. This workshop builds on those skills by learning new exercises and revisiting some previous key exercises that help to disempower failure and reframe challenging moments. Learn even more techniques for quieting the inner critic, plus strengthen the skills introduced in your previous workshop. ("Swipe left!") You can't go to the gym once and come out with Hulk-like strength. This hands-on workshop is a great workout for the "quiet the inner critic" muscles!
qualifying companies get
full reimbursement for these events
Happier Valley Comedy is proud to be a training provider with the Workforce Training Fund Express Grant.
want to make the next step in using
improv to improve the workplace
even more profound and lasting?
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"Pam clearly reads her audience well, and had of team of skeptics not only laughing and participating, but also actively using the principles of the workshop within hours of her departure … I have never participated in a workshop that was so thoroughly applicable to our daily life, work, and relationships. The return on investment was clear immediately." |
“I would recommend Pam as a presenter to whomever is bringing in trainers, or trying to make their organization more effective in thinking, collaborating, changing their outlook to positive, and on and on. Please do not hesitate to contact me for even more praise for Pam Victor." |
