Roleplays
What it is:
Performance of a Lifetime takes role-playing to the next level. Of course we're strong believers in the value of practicing for an important conversation or a key client pitch. But our role-plays go further. We reach deep into our theatrical toolkit and give you access to the techniques that make your role-playing experience a critical opportunity for real-time skill-building, growth, and performance improvement.
We put you "on stage," face-to-face with one of our Broadway- or West End-trained, business-savvy actors, being coached by one of our director/trainers, and you improvise a conversation. The scene might deal with an issue ripped from your organization's headlines (or bubbling up from its undercurrents). Or it might be a seemingly mundane, everyday challenge that you just need a little more help with. The conversation is rehearsed, performed, re-directed, experimented with, and improved. You're prepared and ready, and you've developed some real-life relationship-building skills that will be crucial to handling all your conversations well — from this moment on.
Why it helps:
All of us — including you and those you work with — are the actors, writers, and directors of the scenes of our lives. And when we need to get ready for one of those scenes, we can do what actors do — we can rehearse! And rehearsing in a safe, supportive environment with skilled direction makes it possible to grow, to make new choices and see and learn from the impact of those choices. We can work with others to explore possibilities, mistakes, solutions, and opportunities that allow the best outcomes to emerge through connected conversation and relationship-building.
How it works:
You provide us with your organization or team's challenges — what are the core business issues, who are the characters, what are the difficult behaviors, the dilemmas and the opportunities? We decide together whether to set the role-play scenes within your actual organization, in a generic organizational context, or to make them "metaphorical" (outside of the workplace altogether). You meet with our actors, and help them to develop the characters they'll be playing — fine-tuning the vocabulary and behaviors that will ring true for participants. This creative process culminates in the workshop itself, where we invite you onstage and we work together to develop the skills and interpersonal abilities required to address your critical workplace challenges.
Charles Schwab, Director, Relationship and Database Marketing
