Improve the business advice
Budget: $250 – $750 USD
The most important skill needed in improv is listening. To build a scene or narrative with someone, you have to listen to the "offers," or building blocks, fellow players are giving you and incorporate those elements into your response, no matter how surreal or incongruous they might seem. Someone who is not listening, or trying to deliver their own jokes, cuts off the scene.
Translated into a business context, listening skills are vital to a business-partnering approach. Only by listening can you understand the other person's goals and objectives, and from there help them make decisions and warn them of any pitfalls.
Just like in an improv sketch, "the more we can link what we say to what others say, the better," Mullarkey explained. In a business context, this approach helps persuade, influence, and build rapport.
Translated into a business context, listening skills are vital to a business-partnering approach. Only by listening can you understand the other person's goals and objectives, and from there help them make decisions and warn them of any pitfalls.
Just like in an improv sketch, "the more we can link what we say to what others say, the better," Mullarkey explained. In a business context, this approach helps persuade, influence, and build rapport.