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Improv[e] your Communication, Storytelling, and Collaboration Skills

  • Software Documentation
  • 11. June
  • 09:30 - 11:00 AM (CEST)
  • finished
  • Maryland Sara

    Maryland Sara

    • Google

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Having only technical skills is not enough to become an effective technical communicator. One must possess excellent communication, collaboration, and listening skills - also known as soft skills. These soft skills are useful to thrive and succeed in fast-paced, complex (and sometimes remote-work) environments.

 

One effective method to improve and learn these soft skills is through Improv Theatre.

Takeaways

Practing Improv provides the following benefits:

  • Teaches you the values of being collaborative, creative, and positive
  • Allows you to be comfortable with failure and the unexpected, which could be useful in difficult work situations

Prior knowledge

Anyone can join the workshop as long as they are willing to try new things and have fun.

Speaker

Maryland Sara

Maryland Sara

  • Google
Biography

Maryland Sara is an experienced technical writer and Improv Theater coach.

She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland, where she writes technical documentation at Google. She holds a Master's degree in Technical Communication and Localization from the University of Strasbourg in France and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MSU-IIT in the Philippines. In 2020, she received her tekom Certificate in Technical Communication (Professional Level).

As an Improv Theater coach, Maryland has facilitated more than 80 workshops and orchestrated multiple shows with different Improv teams across Europe. She co-founded an Improv group in Munich (2017) and later co-founded the ImpAct Improv group in Dublin back in 2019.

She applies the skills she learned from Improv to her daily life and at work. Because of the many positive benefits of Improv, she also leads Improv Theater workshops at her workplace for her colleagues.

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