105: “Yes, and…” approaches to improv-ing work with Bob Kulhan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 January 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Business Improv Founder Bob Kulhan reveals how improv techniques can be applied to the workplace.
You’ll Learn:
- How improv’s “Yes, and…” philosophy can enrich many facets of work
- Improv’s wisdom on conducting better meetings
- How to reframe difficult conversations with “Yes, and…”
About Bob
Bob Kulhan is the Founder, President and CEO of Business Improv®, and a world-class leader in creating experiential training and development programs for corporations of all scopes and sizes. Based in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, Business Improv serves a large international roster of blue-chip firms such as Google, PepsiCo, American Express, Capital One, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford Motor Company, Hilton Hotels Worldwide and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Kulhan’s consulting and teaching work with these clients emphasizes the use of improvisational techniques in developing leadership, improving managerial structure, honing team skills, fostering a collaborative corporate culture, busting blocks to creativity, facilitating conflict management, connecting Millennials, and encouraging creative and adaptive problem solving. His latest book is Getting to “Yes, and.”
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: www.businessimprov.com
- Book: Getting to “Yes, and” by Bob Kulhan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 105 with Bob |
| 0:26.2 | Colhan. Bob was a whole lot of fun. We are talking about improv and how the |
| 0:30.9 | philosophies therein can actually indeed be quite useful in bolstering your work |
| 0:37.2 | effectiveness. So you're going to learn one how improvs yes and philosophy can |
| 0:42.1 | enrich many facets of work. |
| 0:43.6 | Two, Improves wisdom on conducting better meetings and three, |
| 0:47.8 | how to reframe difficult conversations with a little yes and. |
| 0:52.2 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the |
| 0:54.6 | transcript or the links to items that we talk about here you can find that over |
| 0:58.9 | at awesome at your job dot com slash eep one zero. That's awesome at your job. |
| 1:04.3 | dot com slash letters EP and then the numerals one zero five. |
| 1:08.9 | And while you're over there at awesome at your job. |
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