The Second City

Human beings are social animals and the need to come together as a group is never as important when we are distanced from the people we work with. Our personalized improv show can give your
team the opportunity to connect, interact and laugh together all at the same time. We will work with your team to personalize the experience: having fun with your specific work culture, leadership and company in-jokes. Successful teams need their team members to feel a sense of belonging and support. Second City Works’
personalized improv show is a great way to inspire your work teams through shared laughter.

• Keep morale high
• Show your teams you care about them
• Increase team belongingness

Remember the days when we would have corporate outings to escape rooms and axe-throwing? Second City has a way to bring your team back together – but at a safe, virtual distance.

Improv Social is 90 minute session that runs once a week for three weeks.

Facilitated by a certified Second City instruction, your group will play a series of improv games (Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style) that will bring laughter, energy and community back into your team.

? LENGTH: 90 Minutes once a week for 3 weeks
? PARTICIPANTS: Up to 20
? LOCATION: Individual computers via Zoom webinar platform

This workshop teaches the direct applications of Team building and Creativity. It will unpack subjects such as: “yes, and” to build collaboratively, listening to understand, managing the message, having each others’ back, business etiquette, and team building and goal re-orientation.

At Second City Works, we take a unique, improv-based approach to developing more creative, inclusive, and inspiring leaders. Participants will build their skills and receive feedback in a variety of areas, including: using “Yes, And,” the language of collaboration, adapting in the moment, breaking down silos, and rapid idea generation.

This keynote will get audience members to brainstorm through improvisation to generate and filter new ideas, break down “no” thinking and let “yes, and” flourish- giving each idea its day, collaborate to produce more creative thinking, and build team dynamics that make failure a valuable component of the innovative process.

Our written and stage work has made us experts in the fine art of telling stories, as well as improvisation. Especially effective with sales teams, our Storytelling programming provides tangible tools to make sure your audience is paying attention.

• Identify the Hero
• Start in the Middle
• Find the Transformation
• Cultivate the Details, then Cut the Clutter

Audience members will learn:

• Voice, gestures, pacing, eye contact
• Building confidence as a presenter
• Reading the audience and adjusting message and delivery
• Using emotion and passion to persuade and connect
• Adjusting to form factor (phone, in person, etc.)
• Speaking with passion and selling ideas

We believe Inclusion is a skill that can be practiced and improved in organizations. We take the same skills that create successful improvisers and leverage them to build more inclusive behaviors.

• Being Other’s Focused
• Resisting Labels and Assumptions
• Creating Dialogues, not Monologues
• Moving Forward

• Participating in an inclusive environment
• Being aware of personal/professional boundaries
• Reporting: How to have a conversation about a difficult topic (instead of a difficult conversation)
• Verbal Harassment vs. respectful communication
• Making assumptions or leveraging stereotypes