{"id":7191,"date":"2020-04-21T01:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2020-04-21T01:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:37:56","slug":"another-trip-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/another-trip-to-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Another trip to The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pink&#8217;s book, he discusses the art of improv.\u00a0 This brought to mind an episode of The Office I was watching the other day, and since this class loves The Office, I thought it would be fitting to analyze.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Improv  - The Office US\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6wY9OwqJ2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Michael uses guns in each of his performances, he does engage in a limited amount of improv since each use of guns is slightly different.\u00a0 In terms of sales, however, Michael is not playing off of the people he is interacting with and not being very spontaneous.\u00a0 He also is not making his partner look good by pulling out a gun and doing something completely unrelated to the scene that is transpiring.\u00a0 By having the rigid structure of pulling out guns every time, Michael has limited himself.\u00a0 Instead of reacting to the other people, he automatically goes to guns.\u00a0 As a salesperson, the ability to think on one&#8217;s feet is a key skill, adaping to what the customer throws at you, and incorporating spontaneity into a sales conversation where appropriate.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to think that the reason for Michael taking the improv class was to improve his selling skills for Dunder Mifflin, but I do not think Michael is using Pink&#8217;s principle of improv effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pink&#8217;s book, he discusses the art of improv.\u00a0 This brought to mind an episode of The Office I was watching the other day, and since this class loves The Office, I thought it would be fitting to analyze. While Michael uses guns in each of his performances, he does engage in a limited amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,279,65,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dos-and-donts","category-improvisation","category-movie-clips","category-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7192,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}