ReWireU Public Speaking: Leveraging Improv Techniques to Craft and Deliver Better Presentations
Who Should Attend?
Young professionals and high-potential individuals who want to become more comfortable and confident with public speaking. Focus areas will include how to read the room, adjusting to change in the moment, extemporaneous vs. prepared speech and wowing a crowd.
Your rising-stars will engage with their peers in a full day, hands-on workshop designed to teach the principles needed to succeed.
What Will You Learn?
This is an interactive learning experience for today’s Emerging Leaders. Building on The Second City’s 60 years of using improv as a tool to generate original content, this course introduces how the tenets of improvisation can be applied to how you craft and deliver presentations at work:
- Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: project confidence despite ambiguity or change
- Confident Stage Presence: Explore your unique Presence, Personality & Voice
- Storytelling: How to craft and deliver stories that will have their attention from start to finish
- Agility & Awareness: Adapting each message to your audience, keeping your finger to the pulse of what’s happening in the room; improv tools and techniques for brainstorming, creative thinking on your feet, pivoting effectively and responding to questions on the fly.
After each exercise, you will get feedback from your expert facilitators. The result? Heightened awareness to shed those physical and verbal idiosyncrasies that aren’t serving you so you can bring your A-game every time.
Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 North Saint Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
+1 312 787 1234
Emerging Leaders Room Rate: $229/night
Accommodations
Hotel Arrangements
Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 North Saint Clair Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611
+1 312 787 1234
Emerging Leaders Room Rate: $229/night
Need more info? Contact Allison Beacham at abeacham@isapartners.org
Summer Summit Agenda
Day 1 - Monday, August 5, 2019
Registration
Location: Floor 2 Lobby – to the right of the elevators near the front desk
Wrigley Rooftop Evening Event – Chicago Cubs vs Oakland A’s
Location: 3643 N Sheffield, Chicago IL
Join your fellow Emerging Leaders for the best event Wrigleyville has to offer! Come have dinner and watch the Cubs game at our very own Wrigley Rooftop. Sip a beer or some wine on the bleachers, and enjoy dinner and dessert while the Cubs beat the Oakland Athletics. Game start time is 7:05pm, and the rooftop opens an hour before the game begins. This is a rain or shine venue, meaning we will be good to go no matter what Chicago weather throws our way!
Please meet in the Hyatt Centric Lobby on Floor 2 at 5:30pm. We will be leaving as a group for the Wrigley Rooftop.
Day 2 - Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Breakfast
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
RewireU: Public Speaking & Storytelling – Part 1
Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
Morning Coffee Break
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
RewireU: Public Speaking & Storytelling – Part 1
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
Lunch
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
RewireU: Public Speaking & Storytelling – Part 2
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
Afternoon Power Break
Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
RewireU: Public Speaking & Storytelling – Part 2
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
Summer Summit Wrap-up & Closing
Location: Lake Shore Ballroom, Floor 3
Session Information
RewireU empowers individuals, teams, and creatives through the understanding and application of The Second City’s renowned improvisation techniques. As inventors of the art form, they have a deep understanding of how their methods can unlock creativity and foster ensemble building in wholly unique ways.
The program is designed to teach participants how to rewire their minds to be more like that of an improviser: nimble, adaptable, and accepting of ideas.
Participants of the ReWireU program gain hands-on experience learning proven strategies that impact several critical collaborative areas, including:
- Generate new ideas–and better ideas
- Engaging in the sharing of ideas and opinions
- Developing the skills to give and receive feedback that sticks
- Embracing change and overcoming conflict
- Finding your unique voice
- Building trust, encouraging risk and learning to be comfortable with discomfort
- Becoming open and inclusive to other thoughts, backgrounds, and skill sets
- Instilling creativity as a habit