Encourage personal development & collective growth.
MINDFUL IMPROV THINKING:
Build a Culture of Resilient Trust
Setting boundaries, offering feedback, engaging conflict with integrity and sharing our ideas with confidence are important functions of building trust. While we likely agree on their value, most of us have never been taught how to navigate these often uncomfortable situations.
These opportunities for brave communication define relationships, determine team effectiveness and steer our career trajectories... but without proactive effort otherwise, our choices in those moments get determined by our insecurities, old habits and instinctual fears. Mindful Improv Thinking: Build a Culture of Resilient Trust is a simple, thoughtful playbook for choosing a different path. It's a quick read (written by a busy person for busy people!) and is designed to set standards for brave communication within your team and across your company. Rooted in the Mindful Improv Thinking framework, this book offers practical processes for preparing for, engaging in and recovering from the moments that can build or destroy trust. Available in audio, e-book and paperback formats online wherever books are sold. Bulk orders (50+ copies) can be placed directly through The Center for Mindful Improv Thinking for a discounted rate! Teams interested in facilitating discussion groups can also make use of The Facilitator Guidebook which outlines 10 discussions, each requiring less than 10 minutes of reading/listening from your participants. Each section offers:
The Facilitator Guidebook also offers an overview of best practices for navigating pushback, defensiveness or reactivity in group discussions. The approaches are evidence-based and rooted in motivational interviewing. We recommend designating 1 facilitator for every 10 participants, and allowing ~45 minutes for each discussion, perhaps in a Lunch and Learn format. The Facilitator Guidebook is available for purchase exclusively through The Center for Mindful Improv Thinking. Place your order here. |
"Whether you're looking for a dose of humor or seeking profound insights, this book delivers a blend of both, ensuring an engaging and enriching reading experience. From the heartfelt personal anecdotes to the practical guidelines for brave communication - this book is a must read for cultures that seek deep, trusting collaboration."
- Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, LLC |
"A useful and captivating book for leaders and teams who want to create a culture of trust, innovation and joy."
- Serena Sacks-Mandel, International Technology Leader, Keynote Speaker & Author of Empowered: Frame Your Narrative. Own Your Power. |
THE FUNNY THING ABOUT FORGIVENESS:
What every leader needs to know about improv,
culture & the world's least favorite F word
Forgiveness is the least talked about and most desperately needed soft skill in leadership. Now more than ever, as we aspire to build cultures of true belonging, we need leaders who are free from the distractions of resentment, shame and mistrust.
Unprocessed pain causes good leaders to step out of alignment, rob themselves of joy and diminish the potential success of their team in hundreds of accidental and subconscious ways. This is a book about reckoning with our stories so we can be the people we mean to be consistently. It provides a tactical strategy for navigating forgiveness using the surprisingly relevant principles found in improvised comedy. The foreword was written by Colin Mochrie of Whose Line is it Anyway. Ideal for:
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