Improvisation Leadership Activity

Improvisation is a great way to teach your leadership students to think quickly on their feet. Quick think is a characteristic attributed to many great leaders. Provide your students with a number of scenarios, objects, songs, etc… and make them think quickly on their feet.

Improvisation #1: Select four students and give them each a pencil. They must tell the class the purpose or main usage is for a pencil, but they cannot say it is used for writing, and students cannot repeat one another’s ideas.

Improvisation #2: Select 6-8 students and have them makeup a story one word at a time. No one word can be repeated twice, and if it is the student who repeated the word must sit down.

Improvisation #3: Select a student who must create a jingle or advertisement for a product they cannot see. Place the product behind the student so the rest of the class can see it. The participant must try to gauge the class’s reaction to see how well he or she is doing.

Improvisation #4: Give a word or concept to a student or students and they must create a short song about the word or concept. Give the students less than a minute to prepare or think about their song.

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