One of the key skills an improviser uses, on or off stage is their awareness of their own thinking. They know how to be in-the-moment. This being in the moment is not a ‘just follow every thought at random’ state of being, it is a state of complete and total alertness.

After a team workshop I recently delivered, the manager of the team said to me "those we're really good action steps, but I don't thing anyone will do them". I was stunned. We spent a whole day figuring out what they could do to achieve the goals they set out for themselves (not my goals, but their goals - this was pure facilitation) and they won't do them?

We as coaches and facilitators of are charged with getting the teams we are working with to where they want to go. How do you get teams to open up and get to the challenging task of remaking themselves into the team they wanted to be?

Let’s talk a little about change. Don’t make a big deal out of change. It’s happening all the time anyway. Most of the business of change is attitudinal. First, give yourself permission to adapt. So you didn’t do it right. So what? You learn your lessons and you move on. See change as important but not serious. Don’t make change into a personal issue or problem. If you can do something about something than do that. If you cannot do something now, don’t make it into a problem.