Every team has a conversation it keeps almost having.
It comes up in a review and gets smoothed over. It comes up in a one-on-one and gets postponed. Everyone knows roughly what it is, and everyone waits for someone else to start it.
Inside a team, that's what the room works on. People practise disagreeing with each other while we're in the room, which is a cheaper place to do it than a real review.
The thing we keep seeing, in every room, is that the body moves first. Shallow breath, a racing heart, the urge to go quiet or to over-explain: all of it arrives before anyone has decided how to respond. In a team that shows up constantly, and mostly nobody names it.
Yash and Praveen have run All-In Improv together for four years: more than two hundred and fifty sessions, over two thousand people, most of them first-timers.
Yash
Co-Founder, Present Tense
Yash spends a lot of his week in rooms full of business owners. He mentors them as a Director Consultant at BNI, and he co-founded a real estate business, MACJ, which means he has sat through a fair number of the moments this room is about. Four years of running rooms has made him good at the part nobody notices: spotting the person who's gone quiet.
Praveen
Co-Founder, Present Tense
Praveen has done improv for eight years and taught it for four. He also runs an AI company, which has put him in front of enough investors and enough co-founder disagreements to have his own list of conversations he's been putting off. He designs what happens in the room.
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