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The Improv Approach To Building Great Teams with Norm Laviolette
Host Mike Wood chats with Norm Laviolette, founder of the Improv Asylum and author of the new book, The Art of Making Shit Up. Norm has also been a speaker at WorkHuman Live for the last four years. He and Mike talk about his book, and his approach to team building.
The Improv Approach
Norm started Improv Asylum with his partners 21 years ago. Soon they were asking themselves how they could expand and bring the principles of improv to the workplace. He says that their IP was that they were able to create teams in a pressurized environment, a valuable skill in the business world. They created a program based on improv principles, that taught businesses how to build teams and cultures. Norm says that they wanted to address common challenges such as how to help teams work better together and build better ideas, as well as create healthy cultures where people want to listen to each other and are okay with taking appropriate risks and sometimes failing. Today, he gets to share these principles around the world.
Your Job Is To Get Good
Mike asks how Norm got started with launching his book. Norm responds that his clients kept asking him if he had written a book that they could use as a resource. It was when Wiley, the publisher, approached him that he finally decided to write one. The lesson in this, he says, is that if you put yourself out and start doing stuff, you attract people to you. That’s how we find a lot of the speakers for WorkHuman Live, Mike comments. Norm emphasizes that your job is to get so good with your message that people will find you. It may not be as quickly as you want, but keep going nonetheless. When you start working, you’re taking the steps to greater things.
Laughter Is Good Medicine
Mike has taken an Improv Asylum class and he has thoroughly enjoyed it. Laughing with people is valuable, Norm says. You’re relieving stress and that’s always a good thing. There’s a deeper strategy as well: when people start laughing, they relax. When they relax, they're willing to think differently or hear messages that they would have been closed off to before. Laughter is really good medicine.
Resources
Get the book: The Art of Making Shit Up
See Norm Laviolette at WorkHuman Live 2020
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Host Mike Wood chats with Norm Laviolette, founder of the Improv Asylum and author of the new book, The Art of Making Shit Up. Norm has also been a speaker at WorkHuman Live for the last four years. He and Mike talk about his book, and his approach to team building.
The Improv Approach
Norm started Improv Asylum with his partners 21 years ago. Soon they were asking themselves how they could expand and bring the principles of improv to the workplace. He says that their IP was that they were able to create teams in a pressurized environment, a valuable skill in the business world. They created a program based on improv principles, that taught businesses how to build teams and cultures. Norm says that they wanted to address common challenges such as how to help teams work better together and build better ideas, as well as create healthy cultures where people want to listen to each other and are okay with taking appropriate risks and sometimes failing. Today, he gets to share these principles around the world.
Your Job Is To Get Good
Mike asks how Norm got started with launching his book. Norm responds that his clients kept asking him if he had written a book that they could use as a resource. It was when Wiley, the publisher, approached him that he finally decided to write one. The lesson in this, he says, is that if you put yourself out and start doing stuff, you attract people to you. That’s how we find a lot of the speakers for WorkHuman Live, Mike comments. Norm emphasizes that your job is to get so good with your message that people will find you. It may not be as quickly as you want, but keep going nonetheless. When you start working, you’re taking the steps to greater things.
Laughter Is Good Medicine
Mike has taken an Improv Asylum class and he has thoroughly enjoyed it. Laughing with people is valuable, Norm says. You’re relieving stress and that’s always a good thing. There’s a deeper strategy as well: when people start laughing, they relax. When they relax, they're willing to think differently or hear messages that they would have been closed off to before. Laughter is really good medicine.
Resources
Get the book: The Art of Making Shit Up
See Norm Laviolette at WorkHuman Live 2020