Minisode 12: 10 Ways To Know If improve it! Can Help Your Team!
Leaders, are you wondering how improve it! can help your team?
In today’s minisode, Erin gives you a top ten list (move over, David Letterman) on how improve it! might be right for your team. Listen in on this fun and quick episode to see how Erin and the improve it! team can improve your team’s “it” – whatever “it” may be!
Connect with Erin Diehl:
Erin Diehl is the founder and Chief “Yes, And” officer of improve it! and host of the improve it! Podcast. She’s a performer, facilitator and professional risk-taker who lives by the mantra, “get comfortable with the uncomfortable.” Through a series of unrelated dares, Erin has created improve it!, a unique professional development company that pushes others to laugh, learn and grow. Her work with clients such as United Airlines, PepsiCo, Groupon, Deloitte, Motorola, Walgreens, and The Obama Foundation earned her the 2014 Chicago RedEye Big Idea Award and has nominated her for the 2015-2019 Chicago Innovations Award.
This graduate from Clemson University is a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional as well as a veteran improviser from the top improvisational training programs in Chicago, including The Second City, i.O. Theater, and The Annoyance Theatre.
When she is not playing pretend or facilitating, she enjoys running and beach dates with her husband and son, and their eight-pound toy poodle, BIGG Diehl.
You can follow the failed it! podcast on Instagram @learntoimproveit and facebook, and you can follow Erin personally on Instagram @keepinitrealdiehl here. You can also check out improve it! and how we can help your organization at www.learntoimproveit.com. We can’t wait to connect with you online!
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Minisode 12 Transcription
Erin (00:00):
Welcome to improve it. The podcast
Erin (00:10):
Improve it! Fam it's Erin here. I got some good stuff to put in your ear. I'm riffing on this mic coming everybody let's get hybrid hype. If having gotten your worksheet, come on in and give it a lookie. Did that rhyme. I dunno. I'm gonna keep going. Cause I'm on a roll. What? I dunno imrove it fam. I'm just pumped to be here on today's show with you my friends and I have some really fantastic facts for you today. These are facts. These are the cold hard facts. So if you like Dave, Letterman's top 10 list. If you like just things that are numbered, you are gonna love today's show because I'm gonna give you 10 ways for you to know if improve it is right for your team. So let's say this, let's say you're thinking about engaging with improve it or thinking about using improv to build culture, but you have this trepidation. You think it's too outside of the box for your team, or perhaps you've been listening to this show for a while and you're liking all the tips and the tricks, but you want a professional to come in and make it all come for your team. If these questions sound like you, I have got some A's to these cues and I've got 10 ways to tell you why improve it, or let's just say any company that could bring outside of the box trading to you could be right for your team. So are you ready? Drum roll, please.
Erin (02:07):
Here are the top 10 ways to know if improve it! Is right for your team. Number one, your team is struggling with communicating in this hybrid world. Woo. We have been here a minute. It feels like years because it is it's been years. So we've tried all the things we've tried slack. We've tried Microsoft teams. We've tried Skype. We've tried zoom, but it just doesn't feel like that connectivity that we have in the office, that communication feels stifled. If that sounds like you listen up. Number two, your team is bored on zoom or on teams. Wherever they show up in a virtual world, they come to the meeting. You can see the look on their face. Why am I here? Why now could this have been an email? Number three? There is no culture within your team or organization. It's just transactional. It's like going to the bank.
Erin (03:25):
You hand the bank, the money or you take the money out and then you go home, right? Very transactional. If your team is feeling transactional and you've lost that inner, oh, let me just tell you improv can help. Number four, if your leadership lives, by the way or by the motto. Well, that's the way it's always been done. Improve it! May be right for you or improv training may be right for you. That phrase literally sends a chill down my spine and it makes me cringe so bad. So hard, so hard. Well, we've always done it this way. We can't change.
Erin (04:24):
If you or someone, you know, has said these words improve. It is right for you. Number five, if the tone of your emails or your team's emails and the tone of the conversations are less than ideal improv or improve. It is so right for you. Number six, if the body language that you or your team has in person or virtually looks like that of gum bay. And if you don't remember gum bay, who was that green pile of clay whose arms and legs just move everywhere and he's never really standing up straight improv or improve it. It's right for you. Number seven, if your leaders just talk and do not listen, improve, it is right for you. Number eight, if only a few voices are heard in meetings and the collective group is not commenting or being asked to comment, and it's just a few voices, prove it is right for you.
Erin (05:50):
Number nine, if you feel unsupported and you know that your team feels the same way, it's like a very bad bra. So I'm gonna say that on this show, you don't feel supported, improve. It is right for you. And finally, number 10, if you need some laughter levity and your life improve, it is right for you. Now, let me tell you this. We are doing something that has never been done in the history of prove it, which is a whopping seven years on March 29th from 1230 to 1:30 PM Eastern. And I had to tell you my improvement fam, I needed to shout it from the rooftops because I would love to see you there. Can we, can we collectively meet on a zoom? Can we do that? Could I see your face? And you see mine, not just saying weird things into this microphone, but like actually live.
Erin (07:02):
That would be so fun. We're going to do a showcase. Now, one of the biggest roles of improv is show. Don't tell that's a big role to move scenes forward on stage. So we're taking that fundamental and we are applying it to this showcase in the very beginning of the showcase, you'll see a little bit of our laugh break, which is where we perform short form improv over zoom. We're gonna give you a very high level overview of our effective communication workshop. And there's going to be a little pre-work involved old before you even show up. And let me promise you this. It is very fun. So again, if you need to help your team with communicating in this hybrid world, this showcase is gonna show you how to do it. If your bored, oh my gosh, let me show you how we can jazz up your meetings and how you can make connection actually happen using our effective communication tools.
Erin (08:07):
If there isn't any culture and it's just transactional, oh, let me help you with that. We can make culture because we'll make conversations about the human being, not the human doing. If leadership says it's always been done, bring them to the showcase. Let's show them the new way that you are going to bring culture and connection and creativity alive. If the tone of emails and conversations is less than ideal, let's just say this are effective. Communication workshop helps you with tonality. It's one of the very first things we talk about. We'll give you a high level overview of some of the exercises we do to help your team. The second piece we do in that workshop is body language. So we're gonna talk about body language as it pertains to showing up in this virtual world, as well as in person, if you're wondering how in the world do I become a better listener or how can I get my leadership to listen?
Erin (09:08):
There is a listening section in this workshop. And if you wanna learn, however one's voice can be heard using this beautiful world of yes and come to that workshop, we talk about yes, and it is so amazing how this transforms not only our culture, but so many hundreds of the cultures that we touch. Finally, if you wanna feel supported and in a safe space, come to this showcase. And if you need some laughter levity and positivity in your life, I can promise you 100% promise, guaranteed. You will find that on March 29th from 1230 to 1:30 PM. So how do you get there? How can we meet each other? How can you meet some of the improve? It live so easy in the show notes, there is a link it's gonna take you right there. So click into the show notes and it'll take you right to our events page on our website, learn to improve it.com.
Erin (10:10):
And then you'll also see if you just go to the website, the events tab on the page, click that it'll take you right there, where you can get yourself a complimentary ticket to the showcase. We wanna show you not tell you, as I always guide you through these shows and episodes. I hope that you walk away with a feeling and that's what our workshops do. And that's why sometimes it's so hard to train what we do over video or what we do in any type of other medium, other than just me sharing and helping you walk through the experience. It's so experiential. So take an hour. Come check us out. March 29th, from 1230 to 30 PM Eastern, I will be there with bells on. I will be waiting to meet you so well members of the improve fam as well as members of the improve team.
Erin (11:09):
And if these top 10 reasons, even if one of them resonates with you today, let me show you how we can help click the link in the show notes, get your ticket invite, or one of the who you think needs. See, and it'll, we'll have a ton of fun. And until then, you know, the deal pun intended, keep improving, keep failing because the world needs that special. It that only you can bring, and I wanna help you improve that it on March 29th, we'll see you soon. Hey friends, thanks for tuning in to improve it. I am so happy you were along for the ride. If you enjoyed this show, head on over to iTunes to leave us a five star review and subscribe to this show. So you never miss an episode new episode. It's drop every Wednesday. Now, if you're really feeling today's show and you've improved it even just a little bit, please take a screenshot and tag me at keeping it real deal on Instagram and share it in your stories. I'll see you next week, but I wanna leave you with this thought, what did you improve today and how will that at help your future successful self? Think about it. I am rooting for you and the world needs that special. It that only you can bring see you next time.