Find out why organizations like Intel, Google, Twitter, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Carl Zeiss, Harvard, MIT, and Nokia have all tapped into IA Innovation’s unique and effective training approach to help them continue to be leaders in their space. Now, what can we do for your team? Let us know by contacting bob@iainnovation.com.
Now that You’ve Had Time To Digest Your Training... We wanted to send a quick thank you for spending your time with us And since we’ve got your attention, this is a great time to give you a reminder of some of the larger TAKEAWAYS we cover in our training program. You may not even need it. By now your team has probably already benefited so much from our team building program that they’re a SUPERCHARGED MACHINE : increased productivity, better communication, relentless innovation, lack of body odor, whiter smiles.
Either way, here are some of the more important ideas we hope your team remembers from our time together.
Consider this a tour of everything we do. And when you’re done, we’ve got a chance for you to earn a REFERRAL BONUS . If you liked our team building program and know someone who would benefit, let’s hook you up.
Takeaways from your Training
• Lead with Energy and Enthusiasm (even if that enthusiasm is initially fake...) • Listen at the start of an exchange. Keep listening. • We come up with Bigger and Better Ideas Together . • Consider the Micro and the Macro of what’s needed at any moment. • Saying “ Yes” will lead to bigger and better ideas. • Saying “ Yes” to an idea doesn’t mean that we’re going to do it. • Saying “ No” can stop ideas from Moving Forward. • Saying “ No” to an idea can turn people off from ever sharing another idea. • “No” is a necessary tool. (But... watch out for unintended consequences) • Encourage people. As adults, we don’t hear “Great Job!” enough.
Each night our cast of super-talented improv performers command the spotlight with sketches and improv sets created with the help of a rowdy audience. Guaranteed to produce a new show every time, audience participation creates the vibe that drives the action on stage, with unexpected and hilarious results. You’ll be blown away by what thousands of hours of professional training combined with a lifetime of crap day jobs have done to these guys. They’ll say and do just about anything to hear just four words at the end of the show. Improv Asylum Shows
Sh*t! That was funny!
Improv Classes & Training Center
Whether you’re trying improv for the first time, or are a professional actor looking to add to your repertoire of skills–Improv Asylum can help you achieve your goals. Our philosophy on improvisation is simple: we teach you the essentials of good scene work. By learning the essential tools that lead to good scene work, students can apply them to whatever style of improv, acting or writing that they so choose. We emphasize confident choices and unfailing support of your scene partner. And we do this in an environment that is above all fun and accessible to all experience levels.
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Exclusive Private Events
It is your venue! Your room! You tell us what you want to do. From memorable holiday parties to VIP Corporate branding events, we offer it all! Add a customized show featuring our hilariously talented cast or an incredible and funny line up of Stand Up comedy to make it a night to remember. Our venues, Improv Asylum and Laugh Boston, both have great bars so we can deliver the full package, including snacks and/or full-service catering if you wish. No charge for creativity, raw talent and endless fun! Contact:
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Customized Private Shows Laugh with and strengthen that bond with your team as you enjoy Boston’s best Improvisers acting out your inside jokes, familiar characters and corporate “secrets” on stage! You supply the material, we supply the funny! Our show features 4-6 actors, a musician, and a technician. In addition to the specific customization, the actors will also bring volunteers up on stage, ask the audience for suggestions for their scenes, and interview someone you select and then reenact their life in a fun and comfortable way on stage. We can provide our hilarious brand of customized comedy at either Improv Asylum or Laugh Boston, or we can bring the fun directly to you! it’s your show!
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FULL PRODUCTION/CREW DIRECTING ALL CREATIVE/SCRIPTING CASTING/TALENT EVENT DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT We have a full production staff in house, so we can literally develop and produce anything for you. Find out how we can help your organization. Contact bob@iainnovation.com We’ve worked with tons of clients to create anything from written content for live shows to full-service high quality advertising productions.
Corporate Training
Improv skills are all about knowing how to build on an idea put forward by a team member to move a story forward. And that’s exactly what most leaders are trying to foster in the workplace. Listening, collaboration and momentum. Learning how to think on your feet starts with knowing how to listen, and our innovative, tested and impactful approach to interactive training employs a whole slew of techniques that foster active listening. Ideas move forward instead of being shot down or restated over and over again because nobody is picking up on a concept. Keeping a thread alive on stage is no different from developing corporate strategy or pursuing innovation. So, let us help. Our Corporate Training Program brings the art of improv to the corporate world in a way that makes learning to listen, collaborate and create both engaging and fun. Picking up a few improv skills will help your team members work together more effectively, bolster their confidence, and help them process complex information quickly. It’s a new approach to an age-old problem – and it works (did we mention FUN too!) We can’t teach your people to be funny, but we can help them develop the skills that have made us able to think on our feet, collaborate on a project, refine ideas and produce effective results. Remember when corporate training involved a day of boredom followed by a rubber-chicken dinner and an evening of Brenda from finance hogging the Karaoke mic? NOT ANYMORE.
Let’s create your own Innovative Experience! Schedule more at training@iainnovation.com
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Nobody knows anything. The longer my career continues, the more I am certain of this. People think they know shit. They have ideas about things. They have thoughts and theories, hypotheses, and past studies. Yet the more things I do and the longer I do them, I have come to discover that most everybody is making shit up on the fly. And that is a good thing. No longer do you have to feel that creating something is the domain of chosen virtuosos who have either been tapped by the gods or spent all of their time studying in their chosen field with the most eminent teachers available to them. If you have access to either of those things, then good for you. For the rest of us, sucking is the first step to greatness. Or at least mediocrity. Mediocrity leads to proficiency, proficiency leads to mastery, and mastery leads to excellence. It is heartening to know that the best of the best sucked at one point. Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse This is Norm Laviolette’s Magnum Opus, published in 2019 by Wiley. It contains the best advice he could come up with after 20+ years in the business, but it won’t teach you how to become an improv star. Instead, Norm demonstrates how the skills of improv can be used in business to build teams, move ideas forward and achieve innovative results. If you're looking for motivation, here's Norm's pep talk:
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