That's Great: Creativity, Improv, Your Professional Life

Healthcare Improv
  • 5.0 (3)
  • Self-Improvement
  • Semiweekly

That's Great: Creativity, Improv, and Your Professional Life shows how improv skills build better communication, leadership, and connection at work. Dr. Mike Smith and Timmy Tamisiea of Healthcare Improv explore improv rules like "Yes, And," share how they found improv, and talk with guests from a wide variety of professions, from serious to silly, who took creative risks, built community, and made play part of their work. Watch or listen to learn how to listen better, adapt faster, and bring more creativity to your career.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Mel Teply

    Can improv make you a better doctor? In Episode 2 of That's Great, Timmy and Mike sit down with Mel Teply, Mike’s childhood neighbor and a palliative care physician at UNMC. We talk about improv as communication training, building self-trust, and why improv might be "group mindfulness." We also get into treating mistakes as information, why laughter is really connection, how AI could change healthcare communication and medical education, and what psychedelic-assisted therapy means for palliative care. Plus, the summer we both worked at Macaroni Grill.

  2. 6d ago

    Yes, And!

    Welcome to That’s Great, the podcast about improv, creativity, and communication at work. In Episode 1, Dr. Mike Smith and improviser Timmy Tamisiea share how they came to improv from opposite directions: a hospitalist whose patient satisfaction scores jumped after improv classes, and a Second City alum turned nonprofit leader. They explain why improv is about listening, not jokes, and break down “Yes, And” as a tool for better conversations, teamwork, and leadership, even when you disagree. Next up: Mel Teply

  • 2 Episodes

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That's Great: Creativity, Improv, and Your Professional Life shows how improv skills build better communication, leadership, and connection at work. Dr. Mike Smith and Timmy Tamisiea of Healthcare Improv explore improv rules like "Yes, And," share how they found improv, and talk with guests from a wide variety of professions, from serious to silly, who took creative risks, built community, and made play part of their work. Watch or listen to learn how to listen better, adapt faster, and bring more creativity to your career.

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