Beyond conventional communications training.
Influential Interactions uses the principles of improvisation to build the skills that drive stronger teams: listening, collaboration, adaptability, creativity, confidence and leadership.
What if your next training actually changed the way your team communicates?
Forget another bland session. A customer changes direction, a presentation goes sideways, a difficult conversation takes an unexpected turn. Your people can’t always prepare for what happens next. They need to know how to respond.
Influential Interactions gives participants an engaging, hands-on way to practice exactly that. It isn’t improv for the stage. It’s communication training.
Engage, adapt and influence.
Listen better
Be present instead of preparing your next response.
Communicate clearly
Express ideas with greater confidence and impact.
Collaborate effectively
Build on ideas instead of shutting them down.
Adapt quickly
Stay effective when circumstances change.
Think creatively
Generate possibilities when the obvious answer isn’t enough.
Lead with confidence
Stay composed, connected and responsive under pressure.
Who it’s for.
Leaders and managers
Stay composed, connected and responsive under pressure, and lead conversations that move people to act.
Sales and client-facing teams
Listen for what clients really need and adapt in the moment instead of sticking to a script.
Cross-functional teams
Build on each other’s ideas, break down silos and solve problems together, faster.
Growing and changing teams
Become more comfortable with uncertainty and change, and keep communication clear through it.
Local expertise. National-level experience.
Why bring in a distant training provider when experienced corporate communications expertise is right here? Joe Hammer is a Scottsdale-based professional speaker, business-development expert, author and improv coach with decades of experience helping professionals communicate, present and perform more effectively.
As founder and director of The Outcasters Improv Training Center, Joe brings improv training to organizations throughout Arizona and beyond. Serving Phoenix-area companies? See Phoenix corporate training.
Improv in corporate success.
- BBCNo Joke: Why the Business World is Embracing Improv Comedy
- Inc.How Improv Helped a Dollar Shave Club Founder Sell His Startup for $1 Billion
- ForbesWhy Improv Training is Great Business Training
- EntrepreneurHow to Grow Your Business by Letting Go
- strategy+businessUsing Improv to Transform How You Lead
- NPRWhen the Art of the Deal Includes Improv Training
- MIT Sloan Management ReviewLearning the Art of Business Improvisation
Results leaders talk about.
Joe and his team provided a very fun and impactful experience for our executive team. I immediately saw everyone highly engaged in the art of improv and the perspective it brings to us as leaders. What a fun and valuable lesson to listen carefully before responding while having a ton of fun along the way. I would highly recommend this experience for a team!
Lamont Yoder, CEOBanner Baywood, Gateway and Heart Hospitals and Banner MD Anderson Cancer CenterWe’ve used Joe several times to come out and talk to our team… he breaks it all down in keeping people a little more intuitive in what they’re saying and how they’re reacting.
Dave PanozzoThe Panozzo TeamI want to give a big ‘thank you’ to Joe. It was an amazing session… I can’t recommend this highly enough!
Vanessa ShawBusiness Growth AcademyInfluential Interactions is Joe Hammer’s improv-based communication training program for professionals and leaders. Participants practice listening, clear communication, collaboration, adaptability, creative thinking and confident leadership through hands-on exercises.
Instead of lectures and slides, participants practice the skills in real time. Improv exercises recreate the unscripted moments of business, so people learn how to respond, not just what to say.
No. It isn’t improv for the stage as taught by local comedians. It uses the principles of improvisation as a training tool, and it’s led by a professional speaker and seasoned corporate trainer, not a comedian.
On-site at your workplace anywhere in Arizona or nationally, virtually, or at The Outcasters Improv Training Center in North Scottsdale.
Yes. Many organizations pair the training with a team building workshop or bring Joe in for a hands-on conference workshop first.