Comments on: Funny business? http://blog.us.cision.com/2009/02/funny-business/ Helping Communications Professionals Navigate the Evolving Media Landscape Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Topics about Humoristic and Funny stuff » Archive » BFunny/B business? http://blog.us.cision.com/2009/02/funny-business/comment-page-1/#comment-6510 Topics about Humoristic and Funny stuff » Archive » BFunny/B business? Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:20:46 +0000 http://blog.us.cision.com/?p=850#comment-6510 [...] Little Rascal added an interesting post on BFunny/B business?Here’s a small excerptThis post is written by Cision guest blogger Rachel Farrell. Rachel is the manager of magazine research at Cision and improviser. [...] [...] Little Rascal added an interesting post on BFunny/B business?Here’s a small excerptThis post is written by Cision guest blogger Rachel Farrell. Rachel is the manager of magazine research at Cision and improviser. [...]

]]> By: Brandon http://blog.us.cision.com/2009/02/funny-business/comment-page-1/#comment-6505 Brandon Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:31:12 +0000 http://blog.us.cision.com/?p=850#comment-6505 I took the improv and writing classes at Second City and about half of the people in my classes were business professionals looking to get more comfortable presenting in front of people. It’s amazing how much people can change their outlook on presenting in front of others in 8 weeks. A major takeaway from the writing program was how to brainstorm effectively. When you brainstorm there should be no judgments and no editing. True creative brainstorming should be about putting out as many ideas as possible, not just the ideas you think are right at the time. When you apply that to the business world, it’s amazing how many creative ideas you can come up with in even a small team. I took the improv and writing classes at Second City and about half of the people in my classes were business professionals looking to get more comfortable presenting in front of people. It’s amazing how much people can change their outlook on presenting in front of others in 8 weeks.

A major takeaway from the writing program was how to brainstorm effectively. When you brainstorm there should be no judgments and no editing. True creative brainstorming should be about putting out as many ideas as possible, not just the ideas you think are right at the time. When you apply that to the business world, it’s amazing how many creative ideas you can come up with in even a small team.

]]>