From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder It’s 1988, 2:00 a.m. in the morning.  I am wearing hospital greens and my waist is weighted down with a variety of beepers.  I have a name tag.  Not surprisingly, it says Richard Snyder MD, Resident in…read more

From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder All Communication Sessions are mixes of four flavors: Didactic – lecture, Script based – for example, Team Stepps “I’m concerned”, or in business, the Starbucks script, “What can I get started for you?”, Role Play/Simulation, Performance –…read more

From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder Engaging Openings Part I: Establish psychological safety. This is to address defense of self. It’s not so critical for a class on putting in a Central Line, but it is critical for communication work. Performing Arts Schools have been…read more

From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder Expanding What is Possible. Cognitively, Physically, Emotionally and Vocally. This is to address the issue of habit change. It’s like stretching before going running. In this case, it’s stretching people beyond their habits. For example, if someone is quiet…read more

From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder Medical Improv is a curricula of the Performance Practice type. It was created by Prof. Katie Watson at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern. It’s an elective course for medical students and consists of 5 two hour classes….read more

From: Power Up Your Teaching of Communication Skills with Techniques for Business and Performing Arts – Richard Snyder Let’s switch gears. You’re now at the end of your teaching session. I could have been any mix of the four flavors: Didactics, Scripting, Simulation and Performance. No matter what it was, you want our students to use what…read more