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Livia Armstrong is an improv program coordinator at the Mopco Improv Theatre and Koppett. She heads the youth program at the theater and performs as part of the mainstage company, The Mop & Bucket Co.

Livia Armstrong

April 2017 - TD Magazine

Improv-ing Your Listening Skills

To build successful and productive relationships in the workplace, you need to be a good listener. In “Listen Up!,” Michael Burns, Livia Armstrong, and Kat Koppett explain how improv skills also rely on listening. This issue of TD at Work can help you le

Listen Up!

Have you ever shared a wonderful idea only to have it ignored? Do you ever feel tension in the air and suspect you might be caught in a power struggle? Do you want to have influence at a higher level? Would you like to be able to shift the group climate to be more collaborative and productive?
As facilitators, trainers, leaders, or any other type of human, a conscious awareness of the dynamics of status and power can help you:

Inspire trust
Have your ideas heard and taken seriously.
Minimize unhealthy conflict.
Create environments where people feel engaged and respected.

In this webcast, you'll learn how to:

Recognize and employ the nonverbal vocabulary of status dynamics
Expand awareness of your habitual status behaviors and where they help and hurt your cause
Practice applying status fluency to facilitation, presentation, and one-on-one interactions to increase influence and impact.
 


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