Quick Start Shoreline for Tuesday, April 2nd

The Tuesday Quick-Start Shoreline Business Workshop for start-up, existing or potential business owners will be held on April 2nd from 12 noon to 1:30 pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Avenue N.

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. The sessions are free and open to the public; feel free to bring a brown bag lunch or a snack.

Applied Improv-isation  (Level 1: Basic Skills)

We all need to think and speak confidently and effectively on our feet, in both everyday situations and under pressure. Improvisation (improv) training is not just for actors. Its principles and techniques, applied to the world of work, develop essential skills in communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Participate in playful improv exercises that foster confidence, focus, trust, spontaneity, and teamwork. Learn about the value and use of these tools in the workplace.

Sandy Bjorgen

Presenter: Sandy Bjorgen is founder of IMPROV-able Results. She creates innovative, supportive, and dynamic learning labs in which business people discover and bring out their best. They learn to think and speak under pressure with greater confidence and impact and amaze themselves over how much they grow in so short a time. (See Improv-ableresults.com.)

Her background includes over 25 years combined experience in education, recruitment and staffing, organizational leadership and management, training and professional development, sales and marketing, counseling, and theater. She has produced videos for use in work-readiness classes for adults, acted onstage and in training videos, and won numerous speaking awards.

Sandy's community and association leadership roles have included the following: president of a chapter of the National Speakers Association, founding board member of the Association for Creative Business Writing, vice president of the Northgate Chamber of Commerce and co-chair of its ambassadors committee, co-chair and emcee for North-End Chambers Power Networking, ambassador for the Greater Seattle Business Association.