improv presentation skills

26 Ways Improv Can Help Your Business In 2026

What are you going to do this year to help your team? You could book a team building workshop, an active listening workshop, a presentation skills workshop—or just cover all the skills in one go, with improv!

 

Improv helps with Listening & Communication Skills

 1) Improves listening skills through the practice of staying present and focused

2) Hones non-verbal communication, reading body language, energy and tone

3) Develops openness to different ways of thinking

4) Enables thinking on your feet

 

Improv helps with Collaboration & Team-building

5) Promotes building ideas together through “Yes, and”

6) Encourages the support of the ideas of others

7) Bonds the team over stories and laughter

8) Builds trust among team members and other departments

 

Improv helps with Creativity & Innovation

9) Breaks rigid thought patterns with outside the box thinking

10) Lessens fear of making mistakes to open up to creative problem solving

11) Opens the mind to many different perspectives and points of view

12) Shifts the mindset to see ideas in terms of potential vs pitfalls

 

Improv helps with Confidence

13) Forms the ability to handle change and uncertainty without panic

14) Keeps the fear of failure and the judgement of others from holding them back

15) Builds trust in themselves and the team

16) Increases the willingness to take calculated risks

 

Improv helps with Leadership & Management

17) Harnesses the ability to stay calm under pressure, respond vs react

18) Cultivates the ability to make decisions on the spot

19) Promotes inclusive leadership, focusing on delegation and empowerment

20) Focuses on emotional intelligence with authenticity and empathy

 

Improv helps with Culture

21) Creates a safe, supportive environment with “Yes and”

22) Fosters a sense of shared ownership of outcomes (we’re in it together)

23) Reduces miscommunications, misunderstandings through clear communication

24) Aids in conflict resolution, objection handling and negotiation flexibility

 

Improv helps you find Joy in what you do

25) Improv is fun, which improves morale and engagement

26) Improv helps you play!

If any of that sounds good, reach out to book an improv workshop!

Fearless Presentations: Learn to actually enjoy public speaking.

Most public speaking classes are designed to help you do it better. Which, I guess, makes sense. The logic being, if you can get good enough at presenting, you’ll never make a mistake, which is a big part of the fear. Public embarrassment. But to me, that’s like being afraid of snakes, and only learning how to avoid snakes. It’s all good, until there’s a snake.

 

From my experience, it doesn’t matter if you tell me how to hold my hands properly, inflect the right words, and structure the ideal pitch, if as soon as I get up there, I panic and blank on everything.

 

What you actually need is to practice being bad at presenting. Practice blanking, and recovering from blanking. Practice panicking, and how to handle it and keep going. Instead of learning to be perfect, which is in reality just a way of avoiding failure, practice failing!

 

And this doesn’t just apply to public speaking, but all of life. But for the sake of this workshop description, it’s about public speaking.

 

If you, or anyone on your staff is a nervous presenter, reach out to us and book a Fearless Presentations workshop.

 

Through a series of improv games and exercises, we’ll get them thinking on their feet and more able to go “off script,” caring about their audience and communicating an idea more than focusing on how “well” they’re presenting, and overall find their voice and style and actually learn to enjoy sharing and connecting with others.

 

Don’t let your fear of public speaking hold you back in your career. You can overcome it, it just takes work. And by work, I mean doing improv games and a lot of laughing.