The Proven Negotiation Framework: How Improv Techniques Unlock Better Business Deals

Last Tuesday, whilst facilitating a corporate training session, I watched something fascinating unfold. A senior finance director, notorious for his rigid negotiation style, suddenly found...

AI Can't Teach This: 7 Improv Techniques That Beat Technology for Authentic Leadership Communication

We're living through the age of artificial intelligence, chatbots, and digital communication tools. Every week brings a new platform promising to make us better communicators,...

How to Build Authentic Communication Skills in 5 Minutes (Even on Zoom)

There's something profoundly unsettling about watching a colleague deliver what should be genuine feedback whilst staring at their own reflection in the corner of their...

Stop Sounding Like a Corporate Robot: 7 Improv Tricks to Communicate Like a Human

Picture this: you're in a Teams meeting, and someone's presenting the quarterly figures. Their voice is flat, their language peppered with phrases like "optimise our...

Challenging Questions

https://youtu.be/PhefmGrdGwU?si=7RBuPDIDQHdBZZLz&t=2730 This happened last night – a question in the UK election campaign to the two main party leaders, live on the BBC in front...

Crushing advertising – Apple’s iPad Pro commercial

When I was a tiny child I would go to sleep to the sound of musicians downstairs, led by my mum. She plays the French...

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Nerdy news can be good news

I sent the screenshot above to my colleagues at the Spontaneity Shop yesterday afternoon, and was genuinely excited about it. The little network symbol in...

Hide Self View

Top right; three dots; freedom! It's 2019. You’re having coffee with a close friend, and within seconds of putting down your chocolate éclair she’s alerted...

Learning – with others, or alone?

Going on a course can feel slightly scary; to learn we must face and embrace our failures. At our workshops we make a virtue of...

Zoom Impact when it matters

Here’s a screenshot from today at 1114hrs GMT; arguably one of the most important videoconferences in history. This group is discussing the preliminary results of...

Is it Bullying?

The independent report into the UK Home Secretary’s management style reported back last week, and was instantly (and reasonably) the subject of hot debate at...

How Do You Steer This Thing? Fundamental change under pressure

“I’m someone who owes his career to being in the room with my clients – that’s how I’ve made every sale, and grown every relationship,...

Practical Charisma from Home

Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images As I was doing the washing up today I caught the first episode of Francine Stock’s excellent investigation of Charisma (repeated...

Next slide please

Saturday’s winter lockdown TV announcement contained a host of widespread bad practices -  many of you will already have made a note to do things...

Winners and Losers

If all goes normally, tomorrow's poll in the US will end up with a winner (and a loser). We are fascinated by stories of victory...

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