Meeting/Event Information

3.5 Credit Hours Approved

Building Collaborative Relationships

 Improvisation is an art form rooted in communication and collaboration. Improv is team sport (ensemble), rooted in strong relationships. Improvisers are all about flow – on stage and as teammates.

 This is not your typical session! Fun, fast-paced, funny, interactive, energizing, and incredibly informative, together we'll experience learning by practicing the tenets of improv that bring the people skills needed for team communication to life. Building Collaborative Relationships will link dynamic exercises to real-world applicability in an incredibly entertaining and thought-provoking way.

Learning Objectives

·       Sharpening the skill set for overcoming blocks to communication, while empowering collaborative and creative environments for adaptive problem solving

·       Integrating ideas quickly and balance reactions thoughtfully (actively listen to respond in open and agile ways)

·       Developing an aptitude for operating with a collaborative, flexible and creative spirit

·       Shaping interactions while being considerate of style, interest, culture and focus of others in the exchange

·       Designing a strategy for cultivating psychologically safe spaces for creativity, in-person and virtually

Bob Kulhan is a professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, an elite improv and sketch comedian, and the Founder and CEO of Business Improv® – a 25-yr-old consultancy linking improvisation to business through behavioral sciences and ROI for individuals, businesses, and organizations. Kulhan has tailored In-Person (onsite), Virtual (synchronous), Online (asynchronous), Blended (both), Hybrid (multi-location) and Open Enrollment Business Improv programs around the globe for a number of blue chip companies and organizations including the A+E Networks, Ford Motors, Takeda, Glaxo Smith Kline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Neutrogena, Department of Defense, US Naval Academy, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Hilton Hotels, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Sears, Mazda, CISCO, Cushman & Wakefield, Pepsi, Capital One, New York Red Bulls, and Procter & Gamble R&D University, to name a few. In addition, Bob has been coaching a US Senator since January 2021.

 Kulhan is a master improviser who has spent the last 30 years performing improv comedy, and he the best-selling author of ‘GETTING TO YES AND: The Art of Business Improv’, Stanford University Press.