More people are becoming aware of the use of role play in the training environment. With the right approach, expertise and professionalism, the results are quite outstanding and in some cases, life changing.

Here are just a few reasons why we incorporate professional role play when designing behavioural and communication solutions:

• It stimulates a high level of engagement and provides access for all learning abilities and styles
• It takes people to a depth of personal learning that is unavailable through other approaches
• Immediate translation of learning into the real life context making it memorable, understandable and instant
• A safe and challenging environment for the exploration of alternative behaviours, strategies and approaches to managing challenging situations

And the role play experience is just a part of the learning. Our role players and associates are all very experienced in giving supportive and challenging feedback to participants on their approach and their impact. A particular aspect of feedback that our clients also appreciate is our role players’ ability to relate the experience of the role play situation to real life and the learning models/objectives of the particular course where appropriate.

Our Role Play Promise

Out commitment is to ensure that the role play experience provided to every client will be to the highest standard. We achieve this through ensuring:

Our role players will have been trained on the interactive approaches and models appropriate to the work.

Role Player credibility is essential to the learning experience, our role players will be fully versed in your line of business and draw on their own extensive business and learning experience to provide an unparalleled level of credibility to the role required.

They will be experienced in providing the appropriate level of challenge and stretch where expected; be flexible enough to know when to the level of challenge needs to be adapted in the moment; be sensitive to emotions that some interactions can generate; be able to recognise the differences in individual abilities and learning speeds.

A large part of the learning comes from powerful feedback.  We are highly experienced in  providing insightful feedback tailored to the individual, drawn from the role play experience, that builds on the participant’s strengths, enabling them to get the most from the learning experience.

Resources from Impromptu

• Research Paper: Forum Role Play as Practical Reflexivity
• Choosing the Right Role Play Provider
• New Interactive Simulation to Develop Consultants’ Client Relationship Skills

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