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  Improvisation: metaphor and skill

  Every respectable book, guru and method on organizational change at least mentions the importance of improvisation: the ability to act without having a script in advance. This skill is often likened to jazz-improvisation. My expertise lies in improvised acting. And I propose to do a 2 hour impro-workshop on this. You will walk away having experienced several basic skills that help improvising. Skills that remarkably ...more »

  Every respectable book, guru and method on organizational change at least mentions the importance of improvisation: the ability to act without having a script in advance. This skill is often likened to jazz-improvisation. My expertise lies in improvised acting. And I propose to do a 2 hour impro-workshop on this.

  You will walk away having experienced several basic skills that help improvising. Skills that remarkably resemble the skills we require in organizational change: act even though you don’t know in detail what to do; co-operate; no fear for failure, because failure does not exist; don’t try to be clever or funny, try and find the simplest, most obvious step, and so on. Not only will you find out that improvisation skills can be learned. You will also have an exhilarating workshop!

  Arjen Uittenbogaard is agile coach and consultant at inspearit and professional storyteller and improvisation actor at www.verhalenmaker.nl. At the SEI/IEEE Software Saturn conference 2012 my presentation ‘Mythology for IT Architects’ was awarded with the ‘New Directions Award’. He also proposed the workshop “Fairytales for organizational change.”

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  Fairytales for organizational change

  What kind of hero are we looking for? Tom Thumb who cunningly outwits the giant? Puss in boots who willingly deceives the evil wizard? The Bremen Town Musicians who by cooperating scare away the thieves? A good story resonates with your audience on more and deeper levels than any, excuse my French, boring presentation on methods and strategy. A good story captivates your audience and will be remembered. It addresses fears ...more »

  What kind of hero are we looking for? Tom Thumb who cunningly outwits the giant? Puss in boots who willingly deceives the evil wizard? The Bremen Town Musicians who by cooperating scare away the thieves?

  A good story resonates with your audience on more and deeper levels than any, excuse my French, boring presentation on methods and strategy. A good story captivates your audience and will be remembered. It addresses fears and dilemmasn. In short, a good story is exactly what is needed in organizational change. Not so much in the sense that we, the change agents, will use demagogic stories to tell the rest what to do or how to behave. Of course not. But we do know that the road ahead is not easy, we have a hunch of what challenges may be ahead, what kind of enemies to expect. Let’s not keep that to ourselves.

  In this practical 2 hours’, hands-on workshop you will walk away with your own fairytale that reflects your wisdom and experience in change. I will tell a bit about what makes a good story and then we’ll quickly plunge into the creative part of looking for metaphors: heroes, treasures and quests. During these two hours I do not want to go into reflections and discussions on how and why storytelling works; or on how stories can be used for sensemaking as well; or on the the situational applicability and so on. This, too, is interesting stuff, but why not do that after this workshop? If your comments indicate that you’re interested in this discussion, we might add another session about the ways to use and the power of stories!

  Arjen Uittenbogaard is agile coach and consultant at inspearit and professional storyteller at www.verhalenmaker.nl. At the SEI/IEEE Software Saturn conference 2012 my presentation ‘Mythology for IT Architects’ was awarded with the ‘New Directions Award’. He also proposed the workshop “Improvisation: metaphor and skill.”

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