The Second City, the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation announced an exclusive partnership today with Vennly, Inc., an audio platform that enables businesses to seamlessly and securely share audio content to their preferred communication channels.
Burnout doesn’t manifest because employees aren’t working hard enough to prevent it. Burnout is a result of a work environment that doesn’t provide employees with the resources needed to meet their organizations’ expectations.
Job stress is cited as an increasing source of anxiety for many, and when unmanaged, it causes employee burnout. Check out this infographic on the emotional and financial toll associated with the pervasive problem of burnout.
Comedy has the power to disarm people. You can make the toughest subjects digestible through a comedic lens, even workplace harassment.
How do you effectively convey key expectations that will keep people safe and comfortable about being in the workplace again?
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Join us for HCI's Employee Engagement virtual conference to learn how to create open lanes of communication in the virtual workplace.
There are specific risks associated with today’s work environment—data security and inappropriate social media posting, for example—in which it is important to communicate about best practices with far-flung employees.
Kelly Leonard to deliver webinar 'From Yes And To Thank You: How Improvisation & Behavioral Science Make Work Better' presented by The Institute for Performance and Learning.
The Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing standards of ethical business practices, announced today a new alliance with Second City Works.
Here are three exercises that can help individuals discover and implement a resiliency practice for themselves and their work teams - virtual or otherwise.
In improvisation we are taught to play the scene we’re in, not the scene we want to be in which forces us to embrace uncertainty, unease and disconnectedness.
A few of us from Second City Works braved the late-September Dallas heat to eat some brisket, listen to country music, and attend LinkedIn’s TalentConnect conference bringing together over 4,200 recruiting, HR, and learning professionals.
Developing leadership skills, like anything else, requires practice to gain confidence and feel prepared when leader-ing in the wild.
Strategic planning meetings are popping up on calendars. How are you feeling about being trapped in a room with your co-workers for an extended period of time? Here are 5 ways to make your strategic meetings more productive.
To set new hires at any level up for success, companies need to think beyond just tactical onboarding initiatives and give equal focus to assimilating them into the cultural and team dynamic.
By bringing humor and storytelling into corporate training you can create a learning experience that is engaging, memorable, and leads to higher retention, recall, and behavior change.
Harvard Business Review outlines four ways leaders can get their team’s creative juices flowing. And they support the improv-based methods pioneered on our stages that inspire ground-breaking comedy.
There is more than one way to generate business, and Empower, an award-winning media agency, is spearheading a corporate-wide shift focused on techniques and processes from the comedic world of improv.
Highlights from ATD 2019, the world's largest talent development conference.
As it turns out, the same old, same old won’t cut it in the workplace to inspire collaboration and engagement from your team.
To celebrate the operational success of back-to-back events, the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks, approached us to create 'The Half Daily Show', a half day professional learning and development session.
According to new research from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) most organizations can improve at developing new managers, especially when it comes to promoting interpersonal people skills like communication, empathy and creating human connections.
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Improvisers have a knack for forgetting all about their tempestuous devil devices and staying in the present moment with their peers, thanks to a few non-battery-life-sucking-habits.
Why are millions of dollars spent on advertising campaigns that are not effective?
Zappos, the legendary online retailer, has a recommended book list for both its employees and customers. Our book, “Yes, And,” is listed alongside a bunch of terrific books about business, culture and innovation. So that’s pretty cool.
Kelly has an Improvised Conversation with Anne Libera, Director of Comedy Studies at The Second City and Columbia College Chicago to discuss using humor to talk about difficult subjects.
Regardless of the size of your company, you’ve probably attended a big conference or corporate tour.
Becca Barish speaks about how concepts core to improvisation can make people feel valued and validated.
We can look ahead, empowered, unafraid of failure, aware of the real, imperfect world we live in, but confident in our ability to continue to change it.
At Second City, we sweat the details in customizing our message to our audience.
“Where are all the old white guys,” I blurted out, accidentally voicing what I was thinking. Everybody in the room looked at each other and grew quiet. It was a terrible question.
I have been doing improv since I was in high school and now at the age of 34, I've been teaching improv (to high schools, middle schools and adults alike) for over ten years.
Effingham-based Heartland Dental, the largest dental support organization in the country, unveiled its newest supported initiative, Launch.
April 15-18, 2018, marked the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety’s 50th Annual Conference and Exhibition. The event returned to Chicago where the IAHSS was founded in 1968.
Hopefully I have very few things in common with Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs. But, apparently, we are both INTJs as characterized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. About one million Americans are affected by the neurodegenerative disease, and now, there’s an improv comedy troupe in Naples dedicated to people diagnosed with Parkinson’s and their partners.
Let’s set the stage, so to speak. I recently turned 50, delightfully married for nearly half of those years (yes, same wonderful woman, DeDe, just to be clear) and am a mid-level executive with a large healthcare system.
Methods used by Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade can increase creativity and deepen bonds with employees.
Kevin began his career studying improv comedy in 1984 with the Second City in Toronto. He left his sales position with a major Computer company to perform with the Second City on the main stage at the Old Firehall…
Kantar, the data investment management division of WPP, and one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy groups, announced today it has formed a joint venture with Second City Works...
Many people know that The Second City in Chicago is a factory of funny, turning out some of the kings and queens of comedy since it opened in 1959. But did you know that funny makes money, too?
Second City Works, the business-to-business arm of the iconic comedy theater The Second City, announced an academic partnership with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to explore how evidence-based insights and practices of improvisation can enhance...
Have you heard the one about the man who took off his pants in the middle of a corporate training exercise?
Kelly Leonard is the Executive Vice President of The Second City and the President of Second City Theatricals.
It’s no secret that America’s largest law firms are lacking in diversity.
I picked up the microphone and looked out at the crowd of business people, gathered in neat rows on the top floor of a Chicago skyscraper. They were here for a talk about IDEO and design thinking.
End the fun? Nah. But leading creative minds requires creative leadership.
The next consultant to visit your office may not be from McKinsey.
Second City, Chicago’s renowned comedy school and theater, shows that the funny business translates to your own business far more than you’d expect.
The cloud just got a little funnier.
Second City execs Tom Yorton and Kelly Leonard do not claim their new book Yes, And will teach you how to become a world-class comedian.
How do you effectively convey key expectations that will keep people safe and comfortable about being in the workplace again?
Join us for HCI's Employee Engagement virtual conference to learn how to create open lanes of communication in the virtual workplace.
Kelly Leonard to deliver webinar 'From Yes And To Thank You: How Improvisation & Behavioral Science Make Work Better' presented by The Institute for Performance and Learning.
Every Wednesday, join us for a 30 minute show. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the laughs.
Kelly Leonard to deliver webinar 'Developing Leadership At Every Level: An Improvisational Approach' presented by Chief Learning Officer.
Second City Works is attending the HRPA Annual Conference & Trade Show. Visit us at Booth #633 to discover the different ways Second City Works can power up your HR department.
Attend our Interactive Breakout Workshop and connect with Second City Works attendees at SITE Canada Education Day 2019
Second City Works to host 2 sessions and opening entertainment for Learning 2019 in Orlando, FL
Second City Work to host the People+People™ Conference at Second City October 21-22, 2019 with Red Caffeine.
Second City Works to lead pre-networking edu-tainment and session at Chief Learning Officer Symposium.
Visit Second City Works at booth #50 and attend our session, "Improvisation for Leading Through Change" at I4PL 2019 in Toronto, CA
How do you equip leaders to improve their collaboration, innovation, and empathic communication capabilities? Register for this webinar and learn how we brought Verizon our unique perspective on ideation, collaboration, agility, and embracing the unknown.
Second City Works takes to the stage at the ILSHRM HR Conference & Expo. Interested in learning how the fundamentals of improv can help you become a more effective communicator? Stop by our session or visit us at our booth to learn more.
Stop by our interactive keynote or visit with Second City Works attendees at LinkedIn Talent Connect in Dallas, TX
Second City Works is attending the 18th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute! Visit us at Booth #217 to hear more about how Second City Works uses those same methods to create professional development, content, and events that drive personal growth and organizational improvement.
Second City Works to lead session at the HCI Learning & Leadership Development conference
Stop by and visit Second City Works at our booth, keynote, and flash sessions at the Summit19 hosted by the Iillinois CPA Society
Second City Works takes to the stage at the Canadian Meetings + Events Expo. Our own Sandy Jobin-Bevans will emcee Canada's largest and longest running conference for meeting and event professionals.
Stop by the SCW booth or session at HCI Employee Engagement Conference July 29-31 in Denver, CO!
Join Second City Works for an unconventional and interactive live webinar featuring the power of improv and Brandstage on July 26, 2019.
