Teaming
When teams are reshaped, the clock resets on trust. We help you rebuild it fast.
Improv Training from IMPROV Communication is experiential team development for organisations under change — scaleups outgrowing their culture, post-merger integrations, restructured teams. Five offerings, grounded in Applied Improv, designed so the new behaviours hold long after the room empties.
The problem
New team, old deadlines — and trust back at zero.
After a restructure or a merger, everyone is polite and few are candid. People spend their energy reading the room rather than doing the work, decisions slow down, and the delay before a reshaped team performs at full capacity quietly costs more than the reorganisation did. That delay is not fixed by an org chart. It is fixed by rebuilding trust — fast, and deliberately.
This fits if
Change has reshaped how your people work together.
You're a scaleup somewhere between 30 and 200 people, feeling the culture strain. You're integrating teams after a merger or acquisition. You've restructured and need the new team performing sooner. Or you simply want a team day that is genuinely fun and leaves something real behind.
What we do
We rebuild trust through doing.
Our facilitators put teams into experiences where they practise the behaviours a reshaped team needs — listening, building on each other's ideas, recovering from mistakes together — rather than hearing about them from slides. Every engagement follows our Behavioural Change Process and is paired with a 30-day follow-up, so the change holds after the room empties.
Five offerings
Built for teams under change — and for teams who simply want a great day together.
Each offering is experiential, follows our Behavioural Change Process, and is paired with a 30-day integration programme so the behaviours stick. Book on their own or combine them into a longer arc.
Team Building
Team building that does more than a fun day out
Hands-on, facilitator-led team building that gets people connecting and communicating — enjoyable, and built to improve how the team works together afterwards. For groups of 10 to 200, at your place or ours.
90 minutes, half day or full day · 10–200 participants
Learn more →Scaleups
Scaling Teams Without Breaking the Culture
Between 30 and 200 people, the culture that attracted talent starts to strain. We help scaleup leadership teams build the trust, communication and leadership habits to scale without losing what made them special.
1–2 days or 6-month leadership programme · 10–25 per facilitator
Learn more →Mergers
Making Mergers Work
70–75% of acquisitions fail to deliver their intended value — and it is almost always the human side, not the strategy. We build trust, shared language and collaborative habits across newly merged teams.
1–2 days and/or 6-session programme · scales across many teams
Learn more →Restructure
Speeding Up Time to Business as Usual
Every time a team is reshaped, the clock resets on trust. This focused 3-hour training shortens the delay before a restructured team performs at full capacity. An operational issue, not a soft one.
3 hours · designed for teams in transition
Learn more →Team activity
The 5 Guiding Principles of IMPROV
A fun, energising team training for any team that wants a great day together with something real to take home. The foundation of every IMPROV training, taught to more than 10,000 professionals across Europe.
90m – 5h · up to 25 participants · 1 facilitator
Learn more →Track record
The change shows up in the numbers.
Across 20 engagements and 700+ participants, 373 gave us feedback — and 96% would recommend us.
BASF
Team and leadership development across global functions, with repeat engagements over multiple years.
Allianz and Beiersdorf
Applied Improv interventions for cross-functional collaboration and culture under pressure.
Scaleups & VC portfolios
Standardised programmes that protect the growth investors have backed.
10,000+ professionals across Europe
We have taught the 5 Guiding Principles to more than 10,000 professionals across Europe — and the pattern is consistent: the teams that perform best are the ones where psychological safety is highest. It is built through experience, not instruction.
Going through change? Let's talk about rebuilding your team.
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FAQ
Questions, answered
- What is Improv Training for teams?
- An experiential programme that rebuilds trust, communication and collaboration in teams going through change. It uses Applied Improv to help people reconnect, adapt and work together again.
- Which version of the training is right for us?
- Scaling Teams is for growth-stage companies between roughly 30 and 200 people. Making Mergers Work is for post-merger integration. Speeding Up Time to Business as Usual is for any restructured or newly formed team. Start with an exploration call and we'll point you to the right one.
- How long are the engagements?
- Anything from a focused 3-hour session for a restructured team, to one or two training days, to a six-session leadership programme. Each is followed by a 30-day behavioural integration programme and impact measurement.
- Who delivers the training?
- Experienced facilitators trained in our methodology. Group sizes are typically 10–25 per facilitator, and we regularly scale across multiple teams in the same organisation with up to ten facilitators in a single day.