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Through the principles of improvisation, we teach people to
be more effective in the areas of leadership, customer service,
sales, creativity, communication and teambuilding.
Improvisation
“The process
in which something new and exciting is created in a moment of
spontaneity–a flash of discovery ignited by a spark of
inspiration.”
Our Improv
Based Programs
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The improv experts
at Out of the Blue are grounded in solid business principles
– competent, talented, and professional. Teaching improv,
like surgery and power line repair, is risky only if entrusted
to idiots or amateurs. In the hands of pros, improv is safe,
highly effective, and extremely pleasant. We’re the pros.
We blend our expertise in business with our experience in improvisation
theater to create dynamic, interactive keynote speeches and
workshops that motivate, inspire, and have immediate applications
in the real world of business–including customer service,
leadership, client and colleague relationships.
Our programs are based on improvisation theater techniques and
bring a transformational experience to your audience. Participants
walk away with a deeper sense of their own capacity for teamwork,
breaking personal barriers, creativity and productive communication.
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Out of the Blue’s
Custom Sketch Comedy & Improvisation Shows are highly original,
hilarious and right on target with your message. Our Event Production
Expertise will provide your next important business event with
savvy show producers, directors and writers that can make it
happen–whether your curtain goes up in a conference room,
ballroom, or convention center.
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 Keynote
Speeches
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Lose the podium, the plodding
speaker, and the yawns!
Out of the Blue's highly acclaimed "Performance Keynote"
presentation blends our dynamic keynote content into a unique
and vibrant multiple- performer, multi-media, theatrical
event. And there's a message to our madness.
Our message is delivered by the "ultimate presenters"
– a cast of two to five professional speakers who are also
highly trained improvisation actors. Your audience will listen,
laugh and learn in our fast-paced, humor- packed, message-rich
performance keynote–customized for you and with you, every
step of the way. Whether the topic is customer service, motivation,
teambuilding, leadership, sales or creativity, we’ve got
the perfect program for you.
"Out
of the Blue swept in and re-energized our company in a manner
that far exceeded our expectations. This is one experience
your company cannot afford to miss!"
-- Beth Cecil, Senior Manager
Wheaton Sport Center |
Programs
include:
Improvise This! How to Think on Your Feet
so You Don't Fall on Your Face (Based on the book by Mark
Bergren, Molly Cox and Jim Detmar.)
Spontaneous Combustion– Igniting
the Spirit of Customer Service (Leadership, teambuilding,
sales)
Learn how to ignite the creative spark, take risks, work as
a team, break repetitive habits, put your energy "out,"
not "in," lead by example, work from the gut and create
personal confidence in your intuitive self.
Program length:
60 - 90 minutes
Call for information about our keynote and workshop packages.
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Improvisation
Workshops - But No "Work" Allowed!
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Consider this –
You are onstage every day performing the scenes of your life
in a play without a script. Out of the Blue’s Improvisation
Workshops will help you tap into your natural abilities
to take chances and calculated risks at work and at play. The
goal of our Workshops is to help you become more of who you
are through interactive team exercises, activities and experienced
coaching in improvisation skills.
Learning how to improvise is about giving you the confidence
to be more flexible, spontaneous, and fun loving in your own
authentic way as you play the scenes of your life. There are
countless business and personal life scenarios where gaining
this enhanced ability to think on your feet and react with self-assurance
would be an enormous asset – in the areas of customer service,
sales, teambuilding and leadership, just to name a few.
In today’s rough and tumble business culture, you’re
expected to keep up with the pace of technology as well as outsmart
your competition. In a larger sense, what really counts is your
ability to adapt to frequent and sudden changes. Your willingness
and ability to seize each change and embrace it with flexibility
and spontaneity can mean the difference between mediocrity and
success. Becoming a fearless improviser will help.
Out of the Blue’s Improvisation Workshops give your attendees
the opportunity to allow their natural spontaneity to grow and
flourish in a fun, vibrant and judgment free learning environment.
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"Your
energy and enthusiasm is infectious. I know that our associates
walked away from your sessions with a new outlook on their positions
and a new focus on how to deal with the day-to-day issues that
arise."
-Renee Tolson, Partner
Hardy Development Group, Inc.
You
Will Learn –
- To confidently say "Yes…And!"
in a "No" corporate culture.
- To interact effectively with your daily
"scene partners," on the job and at home through
improvisaton.
- To successfully "Go With Your Gut"
in dynamic business relationships.
- To commit to every "life scene"
fully with more humor, creativity and spontaneity.
Program Length:
90 minutes, half-day, full day & multi-day.
Call for information about our Workshop & Performance Keynote
packages.
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S.C.O.R.E.
New Offering!!
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S.C.O.R.E.
How to deliver Championship Customer Service!
Let’s face it, customer service is a game. You either win…or
you go home. And in today’s demanding business climate,
your team must be prepared to play the game. Out of the Blue’s
easy to implement training Workshop coaches your team how to
consistently S.C.O.R.E. big points with customers,
ensuring that your company wins the most coveted of titles:
Championship Customer Service. No trophy... no trip to Disneyworld...
just customers who become your biggest fans and advocates.
S.C.O.R.E., takes customer service forward
to the basics—the X’s and O’s.
S.-
Smile
C.- Confidence
O.- Open Arms
R.- Resilency
E.- Energy Out
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“On behalf of the entire ProStaff
team, I’d like to thank you for your contribution
in making our annual meeting a huge success. The SCORE exercise
is something that we’re looking to add to our new
employee orientation, and daily routine in general.”
- T. Chalupsky, Regional Vice President
Program length:
60 Minutes to 3.5 hours |
BlueSky
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Every company needs to be
innovative. But how can your organization consistently generate
new ideas, products, product extensions, new markets and new
ways of doing business? Easy. Apply the principles of improvisation
in our unique BlueSky Creativity Workshop. Using Improvisation
team tools, participants experience an energetic non-traditional
brainstorm session in a judgment-free environment, which is
specifically geared toward their goals and outcomes. And,
it all starts with the simple phrase,“Yes…And!”
Participants will walk away from our Blue Sky Creativity Workshop
with the ability to look at the same information in a new
way, enabling their creativity to go from partly cloudy to
a “100% chance of brainstorms.” |
This program is perfect for
in-house conferences or convention breakout sessions.
The Las Vegas Athletic Clubs generated 100 new
ideas to increase sales and employee retention in only 2 hours!
Program length:
Breakout, half-day, or full day. |
Custom
Comedy
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CORPORATE
COMEDY AND IMPROVISATION SHOWS
DEPT. OF "HR" – Humor Resources
 It
has been proven that people learn more and experience better
retention when than are being entertained and not being
bored to tears or sleep… or early retirement. And commonality
is one of the key ingredients in bringing people together to
forge strong staff bonds. Out of the Blue’s unique brand
of corporate comedy provides the perfect conduit to connect
these two very important elements of corporate success.
Our Corporate Comedy is training & entertainment
linked into a seamless "laugh & learn" package.
Whether your event goal is simply to provide cackles, hoots
and guffaws or it’s a new product rollout that needs an
inventive comedic twist, Out of The Blue can tailor a program
that delivers the sure-fire funny that’ll have your attendees
in gales of laughter, asking each other, "How the hell
do they do that?"
“Out
of the Blue literally blew our attendees away when you presented
last week. No only did you have everyone rolling in the aisles
with your “spot on” sketches, but your message
was so well received. If anyone asks, you can say I recommend
you 100%. No, make that 200% - but only if they want to have
the very best sales meeting of the year.”
- Program Chair, S.M.E. – Sales & Marketing Executives
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| Go
to Midwest Meeting magazine “Hard Laughter” article
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Custom
Sketch Comedy
Consisting of original sketches & improvisation, or the
simple hilarity of improvisation alone, Out of the Blue’s
anything but standard offering features a cast of 3 to 5 actors
and a musician who perform in a high-energy, fast-paced comedy
revue format.
We are skilled at working closely with you to customize our
written sketch material to your exact content needs. And–
our menu of audience interactive improvisation pieces, from
scenes to song to satire, is virtually endless.
While many entertainment companies can make this offer, no
one is as well versed at adding the personalized business
touch as Out of the Blue. Our amazing improvisers steeped
in corporate savvy, can deliver the punch lines while punching
up your message Lean and mean… and always clean!
“You must know that our
VP Vision Quest evening was met with rave reviews. Our president
Dave Pottruck, kept saying, “How do they know so much
about us?” The scripts you wrote were right on and will
be remembered, by all involved, for a long time.”
---Amelia Harding, Senior Creative and
Production Manager, Charles Schwab
Game Shows
Nothing is more satisfying than watching your entire
staff share in the laughter, not only today, but weeks and months
later, as someone recalls that hilarious moment from the highly
customized “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” game
show at your annual meeting. Imagine what happened when the
boss used his last lifeline to phone his best friend and we
surreptitiously connected him to his own voicemail.
And if a stock game show doesn’t match your needs,
we’ll design one that’s a perfect fit for you.
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Talk
Shows
Got a problem, product or policy you need your staff to grasp?
Dissatisfied with the level of information retention from
meetings or memos? Talk shows are a great way to make your
message both memorable and fun! Better still, it’s an
effective counter to the resistance to new ideas and to change.
Mock Speaker
Motivational speakers are the standard for corporate events.
Some are great, and some are well, just football players…Out
of the Blue will create a “mock speaker” just
for you that will at first have your audience taking notes,
and will then have them rolling in the proverbial aisles.
Emcee / Master of Ceremonies
An Out of the Blue emcee can ensure seamless transitions,
professional introductions, sustained interest and high energy
levels. All of our emcees are highly trained improv actors
and speakers who can roll with the punches
and add humor to even the driest event.
“Thank you for the GREAT job
at the Media Best Awards. The mock award show was hysterical!
You were both funny and very professional.
You added a lot to our event.”
--- Rebecca Mellor, Minnesota Broadcasters Association
Don’t hesitate to give us
a casting call.
Phone:
612-377-3912
1-866-377-8001
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You
Need What?
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Show
Direction?
We Can Do That!
When it comes to Event Expertise, Out of the Blue partners
have years of experience as creative directors, writers and
producers for national sales events, award evenings, product
roll-outs and major trade show exhibits, and more –
for clients such as Butler Manufacturing, Norwest Banks (Wells
Fargo), Charles Schwab, Whirlpool, and Disney Business Productions.
Speechwriting?
We Can Do That!
Unless your firm is so large that you have your own creative
staff on board (or you’re just bored with your creative
staff), there will be times when the CEO needs a speech written
that not only includes facts and figures, but a dose of wit,
a pinch of humor and a whiff of self-deprecation. We can punch
up stories that make a point and find the perfect quotes and
antidotes. Out of the Blue will be your speech doctor, from
conception to delivery– without the labor pains.
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Video
Production?
We Can Do That!
Does a quick three to five minute comedic short film that
opens your annual meeting or a series of one-minute “man-
on- the- street” video interviews to segue from speaker
to speaker sound like a winner?
“From beginning to
end you showed a true desire to understand our business, understand
our audience and meet, no, exceed our expectations! The video
hit the mark and was really funny!”
--Pat Hickey, Chief Operating Officer Executive
Vice President, Lifetouch Publishing, Inc.
So if you have an event that needs creativity, with corporate
sensitivity - one that leaves a lasting impression, Out of
the Blue has the answer. Just give us a call. You
Can Do That!
Phone: 612-377-3912 -or-
1-866–377-8001
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Out
of the Blue
5721 Cedar lane
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55345
Phone: 612-377-3912
1-866-377-8001
Fax: 952-934-1042
e-mail: JamesDetmar[at]outofthebluecreative.com
MarkBergren[at]outofthebluecreative.com |
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