Presence: 'Yes and...' - how the secrets of improv can teach us about work

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Workplace Culture, Social Sciences, Management, Work, Culture, Business, Science

4.7 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office

You might think an episode about improv comedy might be a stretch for a podcast about making work better. But in fact as Kelly Leonard explains today the skills of improv comedy are the most important ones that will determine our success at work.

Kelly helps to run Second City, the world's famous famous improv comedy club - he believes that improv skills can teach us about what we need in work going forwards.

** TRIGGER WARNING ** includes one brief mention of poetry

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1:07.0	Terms and annual fees apply, 18-plus subject to status. This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. It's a podcast about workplace culture. I'm Bruce
1:20.2	Stadley. Now you might think an episode about improv comedy might be a bit of a
1:25.4	stretch for a podcast about making work better but in fact today's discussion
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