Workshops FAQs

You are bound to have questions. We all do, about great many things. But maybe some of them are covered already below? Take a looksee. If the answers you seek are not below, they are a mere phone call away.

Q: Why should I use Second City Communications for a training workshop?
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You’ll have a training experience that will be as fun as it will be educational! Our facilitators will lead you through a variety of short activities. You’ll laugh with our facilitators and with each other, while gaining new skills that you can apply immediately back at work.

Q: What will we actually do in the workshop?
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Our approach is experiential, interactive and focused on increasing self-discovery. Each workshop is composed of a variety activities, 2-5 minutes in length. You’ll participate in pairs or small groups and after each activity our facilitators will lead a lively discussion focused on the experience of that activity and the skills it included. This is where you can share your insight and learn from your colleagues while our facilitators help reinforce key takeaways.

Q: Will anyone have to “perform”?
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Not at all. We do not single out participants and ask them to perform, though there are exercises where as individuals or groups do take some focus. We create a safe and supportive space for that to happen and only ask for willingness to try, not for our participants to become actors and improvisers.

Q: Can we make sure that we mix the groups up?
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Absolutely. Our instructors are certain to rotate partners and change up teams throughout the workshop so that cliques don’t form and so that people can get to know one another better.

Q: Our people are very buttoned-up. I’m concerned that SCC won’t be able to get through to them.
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A valid concern. All we can say is that we have facilitated over XXXX workshops for every type of industry: from travel to advertising to financial services to legal to manufacturing to accounting and we’ve never had a problem.

Q: Do you have to be funny to participate?
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Funny is our job, not yours. We’re funny on our stages, but when we teach corporate workshops it’s about applying the skills of improvisation like actively listening, supporting your ensemble and collaborating to create new ideas. These skills make us funny, they make you better at your jobs.

Q: What type of background do your facilitators have?
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First and foremost, they are experts at improvisation and have extensive training on the stage. Many of them have first-hand experience in business as well, and all of them have been well-trained to help make the ties between improvisational skills and business world application.