IMPROV Session

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IMPROV Session 2 Enhancing Your Innovation and
Communication Skills Jim Tosone, Director,
Healthcare Informatics, Pfizer, Inc.
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Improv Games

• Exaggeration

Forward Reverse
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Forward Reverse

• Improvise a Two-Person Scene
• When I Ring Bell
• Begin Saying Lines in Reverse Order
• When I Ring Bell Again
• Go Forward Again, With a New Set of Lines

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Forward Reverse Learnings

• The First Idea Isnt Always The Best
• Instinctively Improve Initial Ideas
• Look at Opportunities from the Opposite
  Perspective

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Improv Principles

• Initiate Ideas
• Acknowledge Accept Ideas
• Build on Ideas
• Stay in the Moment
• Make Mistakes

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Improv Means BusinessTM

• Jim Tosonewww.ImprovMeansBusiness.com
• jim_at_tosoneassociates.com