PLAYING IMPROVISATION COMEDY GAMES IN TRAINING 

Carlos  “Pido” K. Aguilar, JR.
Abundance Corporate Training for All
Presenter 

Curriculum Vitae

Carlos K. Aguilar, Jr. or “Pido” to many is a very talented and colorful person who does freelance consulting and delivers presentations on topics related to Effective Business English, Speaking Effectively, Unleashing Your Creative Powers and others.  One would always identify him with comedy in view of his attachment to the “Comfort Room” group that brings joy to any group of audience as they perform their so-called “improvised comedy stint.”  He has directed plays/musicals, acted in many of them and conducts wokshops in acting.  For his talents and abilities, he credits them to his lessons taken with Juilliard-trained Ana Valdes Lim and the Philippine Playhouse, Inc., an Improvisation-based theatre group.  He has also written various academic textbooks.  His affiliations include the Reading Association of the Philippines, the Ateneo Alumni Association and the Philippine Science High School Alumni Association

Description of the Talk

Training fatigue may set in if the training specialist conducts the same workshop to many batches of participants week after week. Despite one’s repertoire of techniques and technology gadgets, the sheer repetition of content may create an oh-no-not-again feeling. Playing Improvisation Comedy Games assures a fresh, new, always unpredictable yet manageable approach in training. Though the games have rules, the topics and the participants change all the time, thus it can be claimed that “no two training days are ever the same”.