Corporate training
Perceive accurately, commit clearly.
Most professional interactions are improvised. Meetings, negotiations, presentations, difficult conversations – people respond in real time, with limited information, inside defined roles.
Yet very few organisations train how people behave in the moment.
This training covers how people perceive, and how they act on what they perceive – not how they categorise or perform.
Why improvisation – in a professional context?
Improvisation is not about being funny or performing. It is the practical study of how people create meaning together, under pressure, without a script.
What the business world calls soft skills are, in improvisation, structural skills – the things that keep an interaction coherent. Sharper listening, situational awareness, committing to a direction without waiting for certainty, the capacity to respond rather than defend when things don’t go as planned: not personality traits to be encouraged, but trainable mechanics.
The individual before the team
Most corporate workshops focus on team dynamics. This work starts one step earlier.
Teams function better when individuals are available in the moment, notice what is actually happening rather than what they expect, respond rather than react, commit to a choice and carry it through, and contribute without over-controlling the outcome. None of that is team training – it is individual capacity, which the team then inherits.
Participants are not asked to “be themselves” in any personal sense. They are trained to inhabit their professional role fully – to do it as only they could, with more precision and range, not more self-expression.
What we train
Depending on the format, sessions focus on:
- active listening and situational awareness
- acceptance and adaptive response
- clarity of intention
- committing to a direction under uncertainty
- risk-taking within defined structures
- connection with an audience — clients, colleagues, stakeholders
The exercises are physical, concrete, and immediately applicable. No role-play scenarios. No abstract discussion.
Format
Standard – two hours. A concentrated, hands-on intervention designed to break habitual interaction patterns. Sessions move from individual warm-up and group exercises to pair work to short structured scenes. Everyone works at once; the emphasis is on doing, observing, adjusting.
Extended – three to four hours. Adds solo work in front of the group, with more time for feedback on each person. For organisations that want the training to reach how people act in front of others, not only how they interact.
What this is – and what it isn’t
This is practical and demanding, built on a rigorous improvisation method. It trains the act that comes before any impression – not a list of things to watch while you speak.
It is not therapy, not personality work, not a substitute for artistic education.
It’s clear, contained, and meant to land in the room – immediately.
About Caspar Schjelbred
Caspar Schjelbred works internationally as a teacher of improvisation and physical acting. He is the founder of Impro Supreme, the framework through which he develops the serious study of improvisation, body and imagination.
His corporate work draws on the same foundations, applied where the stakes are professional rather than artistic.
Practical information
- Available in English, French, Danish or Swedish
- On-site or off-site
- Group size adaptable
- Pricing and format discussed on request