Applied Improvisation is the non-theatrically use of improvisation skills and is being taught in blue-chip companies and in more than half of the top business schools around the world. We help companies stay sharp and agile by developing the right set of skills of their people. Contact us at corina@improvizatie.ro for more info.

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2. Helping companies be sharp & agile

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What is Applied Improvisation
Right now in the world’s top
organisations, the tools of
improvisation are helping
individuals and teams to deal with
change and complexity. By
increasing people’s capacity to be
spontaneous and work together
generously, these tools enable
leaders to be more effective in
terms of presence, agility and
communication skills, often in
difficult situations.
Applied Improvisation is the non-theatrically use of improvisation skills.
AI is being taught in blue-chip companies and in more than half of the top business schools around the world.
The fact is, people and teams in
organisations improvise the
whole time – but they don’t
always realise that’s what they’re
doing. Applied Improvisation
offers a framework and
vocabulary to discuss those facets
of how you work so that you can
engage in improvisation with
more courage and energy –
resulting in faster development
and better performance.
Through participating in
improv exercises and games,
participants develop vital
professional skills. It is a part
of the growing international
wave of nontraditional, arts-
based educational programs
being used to help people
become better at—and
happier with—what they do.

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How it works
Improvisation works as interactive
workshops where participants are
involved in exercises and contexts which
challenges them to practice and to
develop different attitudes and skills
depending on the objectives set.
It is recommended that the improvisation
workshops consist of recurring
sessions for 8-16 participants lasting
2-4 hours each. Learning and changing
a habit takes time and perseverance.
The duration and number of participants,
however, are flexible.
The exercises and the debriefing
discussions are geared towards the
development objective set so that
participants can be aware of the good things
and of the ones that need improvement, and
to correlate them with their activities outside
the classroom in order to be able to apply
them in real contexts.
TAILORED
SESSIONS
FOCUS ON
PRACTICE,
CHALLENGE
& FUN
SPACE FOR
DEBRIEF &
REFLECTION

5. Competencies that AI can address
By practicing improvisational activities, participants can develop the lateral thinking and creativeness necessary
for effective communication within groups and among team members, as well. The following descriptions cover
some of the related delivery skills found in a variety of the improvisational structures.
ACCEPTING The capacity to immediately empathize with the existing situation, regardless of preconceived notions. This enables
a presenter to recognize diversity and tolerate adverse
opinions.
ACTIVE
LISTENING
the level of attentiveness to audible content and patterns of speech. A good
listener hears the sound of silence between spoken phrases in order to grasp the pace of a person’s voice. This avoids
interrupting, overlapping, or cutting off the dialogue
ADAPTING the capacity to acclimate to a particular situation, although not necessarily accepting the circumstances. This aids a
presenter during those times where a sense of logic and common sense appear to be lacking.
CLARITY the flair for simplifying an issue without overstating or underestimating relative importance.
COOPERATION the quality of effort that always adds value toward a common goal.
CREATING
ANALOGIES
the ability to find similar, real-world applications of defined parameters for a given issue.
FEEDBACK The ability to give and receive suggestions for improvement in a constructive manner.
FOCUSING the aptitude for finding the center of attention at any given moment of a
situation, being in the moment. The lack of this skill causes participants to drift off-topic and get sidetracked.
NON-VERBAL the aptitude to read non-verbal cues and to express
ROLE REVERSAL taking on opposing character traits in order to understand a situation. Participants who can play “devils
advocate” (opposing their own concepts or ideas) can develop stronger arguments to support a line of logic.

6. The inside of a session
Sample exercise: Counting to 30 / One word story
The group must count to 30, everybody saying one number at a time, from 1 to thirty, in no particular order. They are
not allowed to talk and when two persons say the same number at the same time they have to start over. The exercise
practices active listening and collaboration.
Another similar exercise it to have the participants build a story using one word at a time per person. The story
has to make sense - in the first attempts the participants tend to be each in a different story. Through improv
practice they can manage to discover the rules of making this exercise to work.
Take outs:
• helps participants to feel more confident working
together - team bonding
• good practice of “listening skills” (direct - when
receiving feedback, indirect - because you need them
to reach the objective of the exercise)
• helps them practice feedback in a more natural
environment (the focus is on another objective not on
the feedback itself so it makes them incorporate it as
a habit)
• It’s fun and the team relaxes, this stimulates the brain
to learn easier
• usually inside jokes are born during these exercises
so it adds to the organisational culture

7. Companies that improvised with us

8. Testimonials
One of the most beautiful experiences that I have been through, from which I learned a lot of things about
myself and other people. The improvisation workshop was for me an excellent opportunity to open, develop
and especially to change and restructure my own life experience.
(Mihaela Joian, Recruitment Manager InnerLook)
(...) to be frank I could see the outcomes very quickly in myself. My main goal was to be more
spontaneous and decrease my stress while speaking in public, and I have achieved this in only 16 hours/ 8
classes of improvisation. It is unbelievable, but true!
And besides the real benefits that improvisation could bring to your life, both personal as well as
professional, it is fun, it energises and brings out the child in you, lets you play, test, try and learn, learn the
way we started out when we were kids, which I believe is the most useful and lasting way of learning.
Would I encourage people to attend classes, or workshops, or events of Improvizatie.ro? From all my heart
yes!
(Carmen Agapi, AVP, EU Project Delivery Leader in GENPACT)
It is a pleasure for me to recommend Corina and Bogdan and I
am glad to do this. I worked with them in 2 projects, L&D and
CSR dedicated ones and both were successful and much
appreciated by both employees and management. What makes
the difference in the way Corina and Bogdan work is their
involvement in the whole L&D process and interest to
understand the client's needs in order to build the best solution.
A plus is also the training method that both of them master in a
professional way.
(Ioana Jenssen, HR Manager, COMPUTARIS)
The workshop improved my well-being, my vision about the world, my appreciation for
little details. It made me think differently and to relate differently with people around me.
It is amazing how you can get to know some people without having essential data about
them – but to be able to know a part of them, hidden, that maybe not even they knew
they had it. (Bogdan, IT Specialist)
“I had the pleasure to work with the team from business
improvisation (Bogdan Grigore and Corina Anghel) during the
series of workshops delivered to our Oracle Premier Support
Sales team.
The program was well received by the participants who
appreciated the novelty of the concept, the interaction with the
trainers and their other colleagues, the innovative way to look at
and put into practice concepts like self-knowledge, emotional
intelligence, communication and collaboration and problem
solving and solution finding for complex business situations.
(Carmen Serbanoiu, EMEA Sales Effectiveness Leader,
ORACLE)

9. Visual Testimonials

11. The team
BOGDAN Grigore
bogdan@improvizatie.ro
+40 756 199 250
www.bogdangrigore.ro
CORINA Anghel
corina@improvizatie.ro
+40 727 814 607
www.corinaanghel.ro
Corina has experience in HR, in recruitment and management consultancy. She was involved in
learning & development programs for companies such: ERRICSSON, ORANGE, BCR,
PETROM etc. She is involved in building an Alternative University (student centered, first of its
kind) with CROS, developing the Autonomy in learning program (the objective is to teach
students how to learn, be responsible and own their learning process), having experience in Self
Directed Learning.
She gained experience as a Training Manager in GOTHAER and now AVON Cosmetics. She
delivered workshops on well-being, communication, creativity etc.
She finished both Management Faculty and Psychology.
She can deliver programs on self directed learning, creativity, change management, feedback etc.
Bogdan is an experienced trainer, delivering qualitative trainings for over 8 years. Now he is also Apple
Sales Academy Trainer, delivering sales and soft skills trainings for Apple in Romania.
He’s also a senior consultant, working for different consultancy companies on development programs
for individuals, teams and organisations.
Previously he worked as internal trainer for BOOM TV and PEPSI. He was involved in BiblioNet (a
project of IREX – the foundation that managed the $27mil donation of Bill Gates for Romania). He has
some experience in recruitment, earned while working as a consultant for Lugera.
Bogdan can also deliver programs on persuasion, sales, charisma, public speaking, NLP etc.

12. Long story, short.
Improvisation is a multidisciplinary method, playful,
which applied successfully in business helps people and
companies to keep up with the world, teaching them to
be flexible, more creative and to better work together.
We identify in a meeting the
development objectives and
after that the working
structure, the duration and
the frequency of the improv
sessions.
We held sessions using appropriate
exercises, we analyse in the debriefing
session, we launch challenges between
the sessions and we recalibrate according
to the group’s evolution.
If the case, we organize
follow-up through
discussions or forms and we
propose future actions. Team takes off to
new achievements!

13. corina@improvizatie.ro
+ 40 727 814 607