Improvising with Confidence discusses the importance of improvisation skills for speaking up in unplanned opportunities and raising your profile in an organization. It provides techniques for improving improvisation abilities such as having conversations in your head beforehand, delaying answers with questions, restating problems, and knowing your organization's hot button issues. A panel of experts from various companies discusses their perspectives on improvisation.

2. Improvising with Confidence
Moderator: Angela Peek Analytics Manager - Leidos
Panelist: Zalenda Cyrille, Program Director - Peraton
Panelist: Yagna Pathak Medical Science Manager - Abbot
Panelist: Todd Frech, Sr Manager - Adaptive Biotechnology

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Why is improvisation important?
• Not every opportunity to speak is planned
• Speaking up raises your profile in the organization
• Managers look for people who want to add to the
conversation
• Sometimes an opportunity to dissent to a popular
opinion or direction comes at odd times
• Sometimes and opportunity to add insight to a
problem comes at odd times

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Techniques
• Its not always as improvisational as it appears
• Have conversations in your head
• Know how to delay an answer with a question
• Use the “restate the problem” tecnique
• Know the hot button issues within your organization