Our Corporate Experiences
Bring Acting Out of Character™ Into Your Organization
Start With a Complimentary 60-Minute Experience “When the Script Changes™”
Communicating, Adapting & Growing in a Changing Workplace : What happens when the workplace changes faster than the people inside it?
New expectations. New technology. New leadership. Different personalities. Different generations. Different ways of communicating.
When the Script Changes™ gives organizations an opportunity to experience the Acting Out of Character™ Method firsthand through a complimentary 60-minute interactive session.
This is not a lecture about change.
Participants experience how principles drawn from acting, improvisation, psychology, and experiential learning can become practical people skills they can use at work — and beyond it.
What Makes the AOC Method Different?
Most professional development tells people what they should do differently.
Acting Out of Character™ gives them an opportunity to rehearse it.
Through carefully designed experiential exercises, participants explore new ways of communicating, responding, listening, adapting, connecting, and approaching challenging situations.
The goal isn't to teach people to become actors. It's to turn Acting Skills into People Skills.™
The AOC Method centers around five interconnected areas:
Awareness • Communication • Connection • Adaptability • Confidence
Serious People Skills Don't Have to Feel Like Serious Training
Professional development doesn't have to mean sitting through another presentation. Acting Out of Character™ gets people up, interacting, experimenting, laughing, and learning together.
Through accessible acting, improvisation, and experiential exercises, participants are invited to step outside their usual workplace roles and experience one another in a different way.
The result can be something surprisingly valuable:
People have fun while practicing skills that matter.
Listening. Responding. Adapting. Taking appropriate risks. Reading the room. Supporting one another. Trying something new.
And because participants are experiencing these skills together — rather than simply hearing about them — the learning can become memorable long after the workshop ends.
The laughter isn't a break from the learning. It can be part of the learning.
Better Teams Need Opportunities to Rehearse Being a Team
Teams work together every day. But how often do they actually get an opportunity to practice how they work together?
Acting Out of Character exercises create shared experiences in which participants can discover how they communicate, collaborate, listen, respond to uncertainty, support one another, and contribute to a group.
There are no perfect performances to give, and no acting experience is necessary.
Instead, participants learn by doing — and often by laughing together when things don't go exactly as planned.
These shared experiences can help:
Break down barriers between colleagues
Encourage participation and interaction
Strengthen listening and communication
Build connection across roles and personalities
Practice collaboration in unexpected situations
Encourage creative thinking and flexibility
Create shared experiences teams can carry back into the workplace
Because Sometimes the Team That Plays Together Learns to Work Together Differently.
Acting Out of Charcter isn't traditional team building. It is an opportunity for people to experience themselves — and each other — outside the usual workplace script.
Experience It First
The complimentary When the Script Changes™ session is an introduction to the Acting Out of Charcter Method — not a shortened version of a larger workshop.
It gives your organization an opportunity to experience the approach firsthand before deciding whether a deeper program makes sense for your people.
From there, Acting Out of Charcter experiences can be customized around the actual challenges, goals, and people within your organization.
Where Can Acting Out of Character Go From Here?
Depending on your organization's needs, customized experiences may include:
Extended interactive workshops
Communication and adaptability training
Leadership and team-development experiences
Collaboration and team-building experiences
Multi-session learning programs
Live virtual and multi-location experiences
Customized organizational training and consulting
Rather than choosing from a fixed catalog, organizations can work with Acting Out of Character to identify the people skills that matter most to their teams and build an experience around them.
What Might Your People Rehearse?
Communication in Action
What happens when people hear the same words differently?
Interactive acting and improvisational exercises give participants opportunities to practice listening, responding, reading the room, communicating with different personalities, and staying engaged when conversations don't go according to plan.
Organizational applications may include:
Communication • Collaboration • Listening • Team Dynamics • Customer Interaction
• Cross-Generational Communication
Adaptability: When the Scene Changes
In acting, the scene rarely unfolds exactly as expected. Neither does work.
Participants experience exercises designed to help them become more comfortable responding to uncertainty, shifting expectations, unexpected situations, and different perspectives — without simply relying on their habitual response.
Organizational applications may include:
Change • Uncertainty • Problem Solving • Flexibility • Resilience • Innovation
Trying on a Different Response
Sometimes the most useful question isn't: “Who am I?”
It's: “Who could I rehearse becoming in this situation?”
Using role play, character exploration, real-world scenarios, and selected scripts, participants can experiment with behaviors and qualities they may not normally access.
A quieter employee might rehearse greater presence.
A manager might experiment with listening rather than immediately solving.
A team member facing conflict might try a different way of responding.
The purpose isn't pretending to be someone else.
It's discovering that you may have more ways of responding than you realized.
Organizational applications may include:
Confidence • Leadership Presence • Perspective-Taking
• Difficult Conversations • Self-Awareness • Behavioral Flexibility
Improv for Communication & Collaboration
Improvisation isn't simply about being funny or thinking quickly.
At its core, improv requires people to listen, notice, accept information, respond, collaborate, support one another, and remain present when they don't know exactly what is coming next.
Those happen to be valuable workplace skills.
Acting Out of Character translates selected improvisational principles into accessible exercises that allow teams to experience what happens when they listen differently, build on one another's ideas, adapt in the moment, and work toward something together.
And yes — they're allowed to have fun doing it.
Organizational applications may include:
Team Communication • Collaboration • Active Listening • Adaptability • Creative Thinking • Connection • Team Dynamics
From Acting Skills to Real-World People Skills
The exercises may come from acting and improvisation. The destination is real life.
Participants are encouraged to consider how what they experience during an Acting Out of Character exercise connects to situations they encounter every day:
A conversation with a colleague.
A difficult customer.
A changing workplace.
A new responsibility.
A team that isn't communicating.
A moment when they need greater confidence.
An unexpected situation when the old script simply isn't working anymore.
Acting Out of Character gives people a place to practice another possibility before they need it in real life.
Your Organization Has Its Own Script
Every organization has different people, pressures, communication patterns, cultures, and challenges.
That's why an Acting Out of Character engagement doesn't have to begin with: “Which workshop do you want?”
It can begin with a much more useful question:
“What's happening with your people right now?”
Are teams struggling to communicate? Are employees navigating change?
Could departments collaborate more effectively?
Are different generations or personalities having difficulty understanding one another?
Do emerging leaders need greater confidence and presence?
Does your organization simply need an engaging way to bring people together again?
Tell us what's happening. Then let's explore what your people might benefit from rehearsing.
Let's Start With 60 Minutes.
You don't have to commit to a large training program to discover whether Acting Out of Character™ is right for your organization.
Start by experiencing it. Bring When the Script Changes™ to your team for a complimentary 60-minute interactive introduction to the Acting Out of Character Method.
Let your people participate. Let them interact. Let them laugh.
Let them discover something about themselves and one another.
And then let's talk about where the experience could go next.
Turn Acting Skills Into People Skills.™
In Person • Live Virtual • Multi-Location
Acting Out of Character™
Turning Acting Skills into People Skills.™