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Michael Burns is a partner at Koppett and the artistic director and founder of the Mopco Improv Theatre, Koppett’s sister company, a performing improv company and theatrical venue. As an executive coach and facilitator for Koppett, Michael has worked with clients such as GE Research, MVP Health, Ellis Hospital, the Workforce Development Institute, CapCom, SUNY, and more. Michael studied theater at SUNY Purchase, and then improv with David Shepherd in New York, where he directed for the American Modern Dance Theatre and the American Folk Theatre. He was a member of the Big Apple Experience, a short-lived but cleverly named improv troupe. He is the author of  First You Sit on the Floor: A Guide to Developing a Youth Theatre Troupe.

Michael Burns

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!

Listen Up! Improv-ing Your Listening Skills

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.
 


Status and Power: Becoming a Workplace Jedi

Everyone from senior organizational leaders to salespeople to spouses knows that listening is a key skill necessary for understanding issues, uncovering needs, and building successful relationships. But what does it really mean to listen well? How can we grow our listening “muscles” rather than just talk about listening? How can we exercise that muscle so we notice more, understand more deeply, and engage with more curiosity?
Luckily for us, improvisers have answers to these questions. Improv is the listening gym. In this session, we will:

Test our listening skills.
Distinguish "listening as a friend” from “listening as a foe.”
Define multidimensional listening.
Explore listening as a relationship-building and problem-solving tool.

Be sure to join us for this interactive webcast on improv-ing your listening skills.

May 2022 - The Buzz

They’ve been there taking care of us for the last couple of years, but they are struggling, and they need our support now,” Vivek said. Michael Jackson, an ER nurse with National Nurses United, agrees. Burnout among this class of worker has reached a

Burnout at Critical Levels Among Nation’s Healthcare Workers

How can talent development professionals help healthcare workers manage stress and burnout.

Combatting Burnout in the COVID-19 War: Resilience and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Michael Stallard offers three ways to boost connection and emotional energy, which will help protect you from job burnout.

Connection Is Protection From Job Burnout

Research has found that more than half of physicians show at least one sign of burnout, and that burnout has a negative effect on patient satisfaction and outcomes. Nurses and other healthcare workers are struggling too. The inevitable changes in healthcare from a new presidential administration increase the risk of burnout. Healthcare organizations need to act now to help guard their people from a heightened risk of burnout. In this webcast you will learn:

current factors in healthcare that increase the risk of burnout
three elements of burnout
signs and effects of burnout to watch for
the surprising solution to protecting people from burnout
a simple, memorable, and actionable framework to create a culture that increases resilience
five proven practices that help protect people from burnout.
 


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