If your company's retreats are putting your people to sleep while not creating any real change in behavior, then read on...
Make Your Next Management Training Retreat Memorable, Fun, and Incredibly Valuable!
Start or end your next retreat with a Success ReflexTM keynote or workshop and your group will walk out the door energized, smiling, more flexible, and armed with tools and techniques they can use the moment they return to work.
Ask yourself the following three questions:
- Are you (or someone you know) planning a retreat?
- Do you want the time attendees spend away from their jobs to have meaningful and lasting results when they get back to the office?
- Do you want the retreat to be a fun and memorable event that that gets people laughing, interacting, and actively learning?
If you answered "yes" to all three questions above, then an Avish Parashar Success ReflexTM program is just the thing for you!
"You provided an energetic, creative and a rousing finish to our two day management retreat. It is always nice to end on a high note and we did just that with your help."
-Don Hurford, Parkway Corporation
Learn For Yourself What Others Already Know!
Here are a few organizations that have already used Avish to help make their retreat great! Avish has presented at retreats for:
- Verizon, helping various departments deal with change and reorganization...
- Beard Miller Company, LLP, showing their upcoming supervisors how to lead effectively...
- Penn Veterinary Medecine, improving their teamwork and communication skills...
- Parkway Corporation, teaching managers to be more flexible and entrepreneurial...
- Reliant Pharmaceuticals, training its sales team to be more creative in reaching and connecting with prospects...
- The Wharton School, developing strategies managers could use to exert influence and "manage up" when interacting with faculty...
David Siedell, IT Director, Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton Computing
Contact Avish now to get him on the calendar for your next retreat!
What is "The Success Reflex"?
The world is a crazy place today. Between the economy, increased competition, and an ever changing workplace, people are getting overworked and overstressed in everything they do. Unfortunately, this results in people overreacting to problems, not taking initiative, and making poor decision in the moment that require lots of "fixing" later on.
Is this happening in your organization? Are any of the following familiar?
- Opportunities for business growth are being missed as people focus so much on little things they miss the big picture?
- Precious time is being wasted on squabbling and issues as stress from uncertainty grows?
- Productivity and effectiveness are dropping for no other reason than that people are "getting in their own way"?
No amount of "skills training" will fix those issues. The challenge isn't that people don't know "the right thing" to do. The challenge is that people aren't doing the right things automatically and "reflexively."
The Success Reflex is a unique program designed to show people how to make the right decision at the right moment so that results go up and headaches and problems go down.
Let's face it, people's problems arise from their inability to quickly assess a situation and make the right decision in the right moment. This is not a criticism. Most people have simply never been trained on how to properly respond in the moment, and if they have they have never been shown how to make those responses "reflexive," so that no matter what is going on around them or how surprised they are, they still make the right decisions.
The Success Reflex program uses ideas and tools from the world of improvisational comedy to teach people how to think quickly on their feet, be more flexible, and communicate effectively with others. This is a truly unique and proven approach that creates a fun, funny, interactive, and experiential session that will have long lasting impact on your people and organization.
Through this unique approach, attendees learn how to:
- Make their jobs easier and more fun
- Reduce stress
- Think quickly and avoid "analysis paralysis"
- Powerfully make the most of change
- Make the best decisions in the moment to avoid future headaches for everyone concerned!
As a result, your organization will reap the following benefits:
- A more productive, focused workforce
- Reduced turnover and absenteeism
- Increased revenue as employees stay open to opportunities for growth
- Fewer complaints, headaches, and issues for management
-Tim Weir, Learning and Development Manager, Beard Miller Company LLP
Why this is the Best Approach to Make Your Retreat a Success
Here are some common issues that come up that make retreats less effective, and how an Avish Parashar "Success Reflex" program handles those issues:
| Retreat Challenge | Why this approach is better | |
Death by PowerpointAnyone who has been to a conference or retreat is familiar with "Death by Powerpoint." A speaker standing, in the dark, taking a group through slide after slide, putting everyone to sleep. |
vs. | No PowerpointAvish uses no Powerpoint! Instead, he engages the audience with humor, great content, and interactive exercises. |
Dry MaterialQuite often, attendees need to be trained on dry, technical topics. These topics often end up being "boring" |
vs. | Improvisation as a TopicFirst off, there is no excuse for any "soft-skill" topic to be delivered in a dry and boring way. None! Second, improv is a fun, interesting, and interactive topic, and not "dry" at all |
Boring SpeakersPresenters are usually chosen for their experience or content knowledge, not their presentation skills. Even many "external trainers" are brought in for their content. Content is important, but so too is delivery |
vs. | A High Energy, Experienced, and Funny SpeakerAvish has been performing improv comedy and delivering keynotes and workshops for years Not only is he an expert in the content, but he also knows how to command a stage and work a room. |
Fear of Fun at WorkFace it: your attendees and presenters may be afraid to have any fun! It may seem safer to keep it quiet and boring. |
vs. | Using Fun for Better ResultsThe more engaged your people are, the more they will participate and retain. Avish is an experienced pro at adding appropriate humor while making everyone feel safe and comfortable. |
The "Sit and Listen" ModelYou've seen it before: a two hour presentation where the speaker talks on and on, and the only "interaction" is the occasional break for the audience to make comments (usually met with crickets chirping!) |
vs. | High Level of InteractionWhether it's playing an improv game, breaking into groups for lively discussion, or participating in an interactive exercise, a Success Reflex program keeps your groups truly involved from start to finish |
Our Group is Made Up of People From All OverMost retreats bring people from different groups together. They usually don't know each other. This makes people reluctant to participate. |
vs. | Breaking Down the WallsIn this program, attendees are constantly switching groups and working with different people. By the end of the day, your whole team will have met and interacted with each other in a unique and fun way. |
The added bonus of this approach is that even the most jaded, "been there, done that" audience member will be treated to something unique and applicable. People will thank you for bringing in something different, fun, and relevant!
"Thank you again, and I would recommend that any team looking to get an edge in a unique, interactive, and refreshing way would absolutely benefit from working with you."
-Douglas Woolley, National Sales Director, Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Contact Avish now to get him on the calendar for your next retreat!
About Avish
Avish Parashar is a dynamic and engaging speaker who uses his 16+ years of experience teaching, performing, and directing improv comedy to show organizations how to be more flexible, think quickly, have more fun, and be more effective in everything they do.
Avish has been speaking to companies and associations for over five years. He is the 2008-2009 President of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Speakers Association, and was voted "Chapter Member of the Year" in 2007.
Avish wrote the book, "Improvise to Success!" on applying improv comedy ideas to business and life, and has a series of audio and video products focused on different aspects of how improv can make people more effective and more successful.
Make Your Next Retreat Great!
Contact Avish now to get him on the calendar for your next retreat! Your people will leave energized, entertained, and ready to implement new techniques to be more effective in everything they do. They will leave "buzzing" about the event, and they will thank you for bringing something fun, unique, and relevant to their retreat!
