Actors
Actors are an invaluable tool in bringing a learning event to life. And they do it in a fun and memorable way, making the session ‘land’ that much more effectively, creating a truly memorable learning experience.
Our troupe of actors is led by Adam Diggle. He’s an experienced corporate roleplay actor / facilitator who has been working in the industry for over a decade for a wide range of public and private sector clients.
Other cast members include Brian, Catherine, Ruth, Tim, Victoria, Tom and Hannah, all of them very experienced and generating great feedback.
We learn best by doing. This is exactly what our actors facilitate, providing a safe space for participants to essentially ‘rehearse’ and try things out. It’s a particularly effective approach when dealing with issues such as giving and receiving feedback, interview skills, EDI, values, dealing with difficult situations, honest conversations, workplace investigations, and other potentially challenging one-to-one situations.
Delegates can pick from a range of scenarios and play them out with one of our experienced actor/facilitators, who then give them focused constructive feedback that they can take forward into their real-life roles. Conversations can be paused to allow discussion, or rewound so different approaches can be used.
The backgrounds for the scenarios and the roles played by the actors can easily be tweaked to participant’s requirements.
For groups new to role-play and working with actors, forum theatre is a brilliant alternative. It enables participants to direct a live conversation between two (or more) actors, stopping the action and putting forward suggestions that can then be tried out. Participants can really get involved and steer a conversation to a positive outcome without actually having to be in the hot-seat themselves.
Forum theatre can also be very effective with larger groups. Company away-days, for example, where there’s a need to include a learning component around a new set of values or customer service or sales, can be immeasurably enhanced with actors contributing to a truly memorable experience.
Our actors are well-versed in virtual delivery as well as classroom. For organisations suffering from Zoom or Teams overload, a session supported by actors makes a huge difference to engagement and effectiveness.
Within the last twelve months alone we’ve used actors for some of our sessions with clients such as University College London, Isabel Hospice, Confused.com, South East Water, Campaign Bootcamp, Novacyt, Royal Academy of Arts, Dacorum Borough Council, Zeiss, Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust, Samarkand, etc, etc. We’ve even used actors in China to support delivery of our management development programme there, in Mandarin.
