PowerProv - Improv Classes & Team Workshops for Business

The new Gallup workplace report just dropped.

It's not good.

The majority of people in full-time jobs are more disengaged than ever. And with that comes loneliness, frustration, anger, and disappointment — all the things that quietly kill growth, collaboration, and profitability.

Not to mention just… not enjoying being at work.

If you're feeling it yourself, or you can see it in the people around you — that's worth paying attention to.

I'll put a link to the Gallup report in the comments. Worth a read.

And if you're looking for something to actually shift that energy in your team, that's exactly what PowerProv workshops are built for.

Look around your office right now.

Is anyone talking to each other?

Workplace disengagement is at an all-time low — and with end of financial year coming up, I know what's going to happen. Someone's going to spend the last of the training budget on a pub lunch. Maybe axe throwing. Maybe lawn bowls.

And look — I'm not against a good time.

But if you've got budget left and you actually want something to show for it going into the new year, do something proven to deliver real results.

In 2023, we started a longitudinal study that measures exactly what our workshops do to teams. We have the data. We have the facilitators.

We're ready when you are.

Parents are the greatest improvisers on earth.

Think about it. Children never do what you expect. They're full of surprises — some delightful, some catastrophic. So parents constantly react, adapt, and communicate on the fly just to keep things moving.

That's improvisation.

Which means if you've ever raised a child, managed a teenager, or survived a toddler's meltdown in a supermarket — you're already an improviser.

You just haven't used that word for it.

At PowerProv, we take those same instincts and apply them to business teams. Reacting faster. Adapting better. Communicating in a way that actually lands. Building a "we, not me" mindset that makes teams genuinely stronger.

You don't have to be funny. You don't have to be a performer. You're already doing this.

We just help you do it on purpose.

A guy stopped me on the street.

He said he'd been in one of our workshops. I didn't recognise him — but he recognised me.

"I just want to say thank you. I use the skills you taught me every day. They've really changed my life."

I loved hearing that. But then I asked him for an example.

"Well… that's how I met my wife."

Turns out he used the "yes and" technique in a bar. It worked so well he married the person he first used it on.

We teach this stuff for business teams. But apparently it works everywhere.

You never know what can happen when you take a PowerProv workshop.

Have you heard of masking?

It's when we hide parts of ourselves at work. Not the whole thing — just the fullest, most joyful, most authentic version. We hold it back because of insecurity, or the environment, or fear of being judged.

Most of us do it without even realising.

Recently, after one of our three-hour workshops, a participant came up to me. He was Indian, fairly new to Australia, had been in his job for about eighteen months.

He said: "In the whole two years I've been in Australia, this is the first time — the only time — I've really felt like I could be my whole self."

It was equally heartbreaking and delightful to hear.

That's what we're actually doing at PowerProv. Not just teaching communication skills. Helping people demask. Helping them belong.

Cuppa founder, Luke Cook, and PowerProv founder Eran Thomson on the importance of making misteaks.
(See what we did there? Mistakes?)