One Word Suggestion: Ankle
Basketball players wear high tops and gymnasts use lots of tape, but less demanding activities, like the ones you do around the office, require a diff...
One Word Suggestion - Improv Inspiration
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Every week Eran Thomson takes one word suggested by you and uses it as a leaping off point to explore the benefits of improv and how they can help you perform better in both your personal and professional life. Produced by LMA Professional Development, this thought-provoking three-minute podcast is, in a word: inspiring.
One Word Suggestion: Hippos
If a cocaine sniffing hippo starts chasing you, run in a zig-zag because they can only run in a straight line. If an improviser chases you, stay where...
One Word Suggestion: Parasite
Do you have parasites at the office? People who take credit for other people's efforts, or who bring snacks and coffee to meetings, but never share an...
One Word Suggestion: Parachute
Use your fear as a divining rod. Do what makes you uneasy. Do the thing that scares you most, and discover new things about yourself. Just do it safel...
One Word Suggestion: Firetruck
Even if you plan for a bushfire, it is not going to go to plan. When the wind changes direction there has to be a new plan. And when plans fail, you m...
One Word Suggestion: Pineapple
If you're the kind of person who sometimes comes across as a bit prickly on the outside, but the people who know you think you're sweet, you might be ...
One Word Suggestion: Freedom
After 8 years of trying, last week I finally broke into prison. We went in hoping to help inmates find some joy and arm themselves with tools for surv...
̶O̶n̶e̶ ̶ Two Word Suggestion: Happy Holidays!
I'm taking a couple of weeks off - hopefully you are too. Have a great holiday. One Word Suggestion will be back in January 2020.
One Word Suggestion: Lipstick
Lipstick, in improv terms, is essentially “yes, anding” your face. Accepting the reality and building on it, working with what you have to make someth...
One Word Suggestion: Pizza!
Improv teaches you to take risks. Trying new things on a pizza, the stakes are low. But on the job, we tend not to take risks at all because if things...