The Radical Agreement Project (RA) is a recognized leader in corporate team building and soft skill development.
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Our Services In Columbus
Improv can be used to advance the development of any soft skill, common workshop focuses include:
Team Building / Communication / Creativity / Presentation Skills / Sales / Storytelling / Agility (In The Face Of The Unexpected) / Working with Difficult People / Collaboration / Listening / Staying In The Moment & Much More
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IN PERSON WORKSHOPS
Our 90-120 minute interactive workshops are perfect for teams of 6-20. For larger groups, multiple instructors can be provided to run concurrent workshops.
Engagements can include pre & post workshop exercises and materials. All workshops include extensive consultation with the workshop instructor.
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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INTERACTIVE LECTURES
Looking for a learning event that can address groups as large as 100 to 300 professionals? Our 60-90 minute interactive improv lectures engage large groups while sharing valuable workplace strategies.
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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LIVE COMEDY
ENTERTAINMENT
Looking to make the next quarterly meeting just a bit more bearable?
Whether you are in the market for an emcee, a stand up, sketch comedy or a live improv comedy show, we can get you the absolute best up and coming comedians for your event!
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
Our 60 minute online workshops work well for smaller groups of 6-12 participants and can be run on any video conferencing software.
Virtual workshops can include pre-workshop exercises, post workshop materials, and consultation with the workshop instructor.
Available anywhere a good internet connection is accessible.
Led by the best improv instructors
Improv is fun.
We take it seriously.
Thanks to RA's extensive contacts within the improv industry, only the best improv instructors will help facilitate your event in Columbus.
Rebecca Turcotte,
HR Director
"The Radical Agreement Project provides activities that allow a group to learn collaboration skills, by supporting their team members in a positive and uplifting way. It is also, therefore, a useful way of building team communication and cohesion, by helping people communicate in an open, honest and constructive way."
Dennis DiMaggio,
Chief Learning Officer
"Terry brings great insights to applying Improv principles to leadership, communication, and teamwork challenges."
Eran Arbel,
Asst Director Talent Management & Development
"Terry is absolutely fantastic! He gets people to participate, has great feedback, and fun exercises to move things along."
Michelle Fischer,
Director of Strategic Communications & HR
"Terry is great! He takes a very creative approach to solving common work place challenges. He has the ability to engage and bring a team together in a positive fashion with the objective of helping them to realize their full potential. He is fun to work with!"
Improv@Work
A quite large plastics company with small offices in Columbus, OH was interested in an improv-based workshop on staying in the moment. Their customer service team was evidently having trouble really connecting with client needs instead of cutting and pasting the most common solutions into every conversation.
Well, I have a very simple improv exercise that addresses that problem.
Yes And Point is a simple game often appearing early in a workshop. But I don't know of exercise tat exposes how hard it is to truly be present.
To run it, everyone stands in a circle. One participant points at another and begins to move to the spot that person is standing in when they hear them say “Yes”. Now it is up to the person who just said yes to point at another participant and receive a yes so they can move out of their current spot in the circle. Noting bad happens if a person arrives at a spot before the previous occupier has moved on, you just wait.
This is a communication exercise that highlights failures to be in the moment. Participants invariably move before they have received permission, because they anticipate they will. When we have trouble adjusting to the unexpected it is because we are expecting things to go a certain way.
You can even run it once, pause it when things are going wrong, re-explain the directions and participants will still try to move before they have heard "Yes". Sometimes people will catch themselves, starting to move but then pulling back at the last second. Tose are the most fun moments to note.
Another common learning opportunity comes in the form of support. Because people make mistakes in this exercise, others playing will want to correct them immediately.
There is no need for such corrections as everyone is learning the exercise together and there is an instructor. Moments like this are a good opportunity to mention that improvisers don't believe there are mistakes, only opportunities.
Recommended Columbus Venues
Hotel LeVeque
50 West Broad Street,
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 224-9500
Occupying Columbus' historic LeVeque Tower, small to mid sized events will enjoy selecting between the three event spaces maintained at the LeVeque. Executive meetings and small company retreats are good fits for the LeVeque.
Hilton Columbus Downtown
401 North High Street,
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 384-8600
www.hiltoncolumbusdowntown.com
It's four onsite restaurants make this hotel the hands down winner for traveling food nerds. Located downtown (obvs) it is connected to the city's convention center and a frequent choice for conventions and large scale events itself.
The Junto
77 Belle Street,
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 914-2700
This sleek and up to date event destination bills itself as a "Modern Lifestyle Hotel". It sounds cool but it is hard to know what they mean, a combination that often points to creative people being involved. Unsurprisingly, creative industries often select The Junto for their gatherings.
Other Columbus Improv Spots!
Columbus likes to laugh and the high quality improv institutions it supports are testaments to that truth!
Not only interested in improv (but also sketch, live literature and experimental theatre) The Nest nonetheless offers mostly improv classes. You may or may not be surprised there is less of a demand for experimental theatre classes.
Laser focused on improv education, they offer classes, workshops and even host shows for the purpose of educating.
Part of the national chain of standup clubs the Funny Bone intermittently offers improv classes and performances. Interestingly they bill themselves as a "Comedy Club Restaurant". If you're going there for the food, I'm worried about you.