Mark Bergren

Mark Bergren: Program Outlines

Our message is delivered by the "ultimate presenters" – a cast of two to five professional speakers who are also highly trained improvisation actors. Your audience will listen, laugh and learn in our fast-paced, humor- packed, message-rich performance keynote–customized for you and with you, every step of the way. Whether the topic is customer service, motivation, teambuilding, leadership, sales or creativity, we’ve got the perfect program for you.

Programs include:

Improvise This! How to Think on Your Feet so You Don't Fall on Your Face
(Based on the book by Mark Bergren, Molly Cox and Jim Detmar.)

Spontaneous Combustion– Igniting the Spirit of Customer Service
(Leadership, teambuilding, sales)

Learn how to ignite the creative spark, take risks, work as a team, break repetitive habits, put your energy "out," not "in," lead by example, work from the gut and create personal confidence in your intuitive self.

Program length:
60 - 90 minutes

Improvisation Workshops - But No "Work" Allowed!
Consider this – You are onstage every day performing the scenes of your life in a play without a script. Out of the Blue’s Improvisation Workshops will help you tap into your natural abilities to take chances and calculated risks at work and at play. The goal of our Workshops is to help you become more of who you are through interactive team exercises, activities and experienced coaching in improvisation skills.

Learning how to improvise is about giving you the confidence to be more flexible, spontaneous, and fun loving in your own authentic way as you play the scenes of your life. There are countless business and personal life scenarios where gaining this enhanced ability to think on your feet and react with self-assurance would be an enormous asset – in the areas of customer service, sales, teambuilding and leadership, just to name a few.

In today’s rough and tumble business culture, you’re expected to keep up with the pace of technology as well as outsmart your competition. In a larger sense, what really counts is your ability to adapt to frequent and sudden changes. Your willingness and ability to seize each change and embrace it with flexibility and spontaneity can mean the difference between mediocrity and success. Becoming a fearless improviser will help.

Out of the Blue’s Improvisation Workshops give your attendees the opportunity to allow their natural spontaneity to grow and flourish in a fun, vibrant and judgment free learning environment.

You Will Learn –

• To confidently say "Yes…And!" in a "No" corporate culture.
• To interact effectively with your daily "scene partners," on the job and at home through improvisaton.
• To successfully "Go With Your Gut" in dynamic business relationships.
• To commit to every "life scene" fully with more humor, creativity and spontaneity.

Program Length:
90 minutes, half-day, full day & multi-day.

S.C.O.R.E. How to deliver Championship Customer Service!
Let’s face it, customer service is a game. You either win…or you go home. And in today’s demanding business climate, your team must be prepared to play the game. Out of the Blue’s easy to implement training Workshop coaches your team how to consistently S.C.O.R.E. big points with customers, ensuring that your company wins the most coveted of titles: Championship Customer Service. No trophy... no trip to Disneyworld... just customers who become your biggest fans and advocates.

S.C.O.R.E., takes customer service forward to the basics—the X’s and O’s.

• S.- Smile
• C.- Confidence
• O.- Open Arms
• R.- Resilency
• E.- Energy Out

Program length:
60 Minutes to 3.5 hours

Custom Sketch Comedy
Consisting of original sketches & improvisation, or the simple hilarity of improvisation alone, Out of the Blue’s anything but standard offering features a cast of 3 to 5 actors and a musician who perform in a high-energy, fast-paced comedy revue format.

We are skilled at working closely with you to customize our written sketch material to your exact content needs. And– our menu of audience interactive improvisation pieces, from scenes to song to satire, is virtually endless.

While many entertainment companies can make this offer, no one is as well versed at adding the personalized business touch as Out of the Blue. Our amazing improvisers steeped in corporate savvy, can deliver the punch lines while punching up your message Lean and mean… and always clean!

Game Shows
Nothing is more satisfying than watching your entire staff share in the laughter, not only today, but weeks and months later, as someone recalls that hilarious moment from the highly customized “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” game show at your annual meeting. Imagine what happened when the boss used his last lifeline to phone his best friend and we surreptitiously connected him to his own voicemail.

And if a stock game show doesn’t match your needs, we’ll design one that’s a perfect fit for you.

Talk Shows
Got a problem, product or policy you need your staff to grasp? Dissatisfied with the level of information retention from meetings or memos? Talk shows are a great way to make your message both memorable and fun! Better still, it’s an effective counter to the resistance to new ideas and to change.

Mock Speaker
Motivational speakers are the standard for corporate events. Some are great, and some are well, just football players…Out of the Blue will create a “mock speaker” just for you that will at first have your audience taking notes, and will then have them rolling in the proverbial aisles.

Emcee / Master of Ceremonies
An Out of the Blue emcee can ensure seamless transitions, professional introductions, sustained interest and high energy levels. All of our emcees are highly trained improv actors and speakers who can roll with the punches and add humor to even the driest event.