Street performers have long been treated as vagrants and bums. But what if street performers were viewed as an ideal model of engagement?
In the new economy, we need to enhance our innovative capabilities, and the ability to convert breakdown, disruption, and discord into new ideas and positive outcomes.
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Creative Arts
Good Money
Open Schedule
Freedom
Career Incentives
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The challenge of street
✤ Everyday economic conditions are terrible
✤ Inherently unstable
✤ New material must be constantly written
✤ Fierce competition (originality)
✤ Physically demanding
✤ Weather dependent
✤ Laws and ordinances are restrictive
✤No guarantee of reward
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Why?
• To train yourself in the architecture of engagement
• To practice cultivating powerful partnerships
• To see partnership building as the key to success
• To recognize the value of your circle of influence
• To learn how to gain value out of disruption
• To see greater possibilities in breakdown
Natural Energy Rules • Lead others to recognize their value in partnerships
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Stake Your Claim Build Your Circle Juice the Jam
We assert as our own. Building on connection. Whatever happens
“Step Right Up!” “Let me introduce..” can be a gift.
“This is what I am” “Tell me about you” Choose wisely!
“This is what I believe” “Let’s work together”
What I claiming as my What I want to go How I convert to
own around from this to that
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Create a focus!
Ask/get their attention
Be present
Provocative and Interesting
“Here I am, this is what I’m about”
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Set the tone...
Establish a tone and energy level
Behavior reflects the audience or
customer that is present
Respectful
Lighthearted
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Share the goal
Where you want to take them
Excitement about what you’re going
to do together (share the thrill)
Let the them know they’re
needed(invitation-you’ll need them)
They get to decide on the level of
involvement
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Practicing Claim
Be clear! What do you want?
Are you on a script? Routine?
What’s the tone you’ve set?
Are they involved?
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Scripted or Improvised
Planning and preparation of critical
to Top Performers
Strike a balance
Improvisation becomes a vehicle for
creating new ideas and outcomes
When possible...less control is more
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Trust
I will participate when I trust.
Whomever is here is always treated right
It’s more important to trust them
Good service is a moral action
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Practicing...
Ask yourself “what do you want to
build with your client/customer?”
Are you sharing enthusiasm with
others around you?
Does your guest/customer feel like
an original?
Are you being radical?
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Miscalculations of a jouster
Fear is information - risk remains
Taking hits means getting hurt....
...getting hurt leads to helping each other
The learning curve is quick, and painful
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There are no breakdowns..just big sticks
with lessons attached...Jouster..
Leading others to create something for themselves. The elements of a dream job are
-I have a voice
-I have options
-I have friends
-I have security
-I have fun
Radical Engagement means to bring our essence, our root self, our strengths, originality to engage and entangle with others.
IF WE ARE TO REMAIN TRUE TO OURSELVES, WE WILL HAVE TO LEARN TO MAKE CHOICES THAT OTHERS MIGHT NOT ALWAYS LIKE. A VITAL, INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE REQUIRES DIVERSITY AND DEVIATION.
We can use gimmicks and scripts, but they cannot supplant real connection and engagement.
Original. They recognize the power is in the audience, not the gimmick. They aren’t working alone.
WHAT YOU CLAIM, IN ANY JOB, DEFINES AND CREATES THE TONE OF THE SPACE YOU’RE IN. A CLAIM THAT IS THOUGHTFUL AND ENERGIZING, GIVES OTHERS CUES ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT, AND THE ROLL THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY IN THE QUALITY OF THE CONNECTION.
What are some of the ways you might practice “Focus” like a Top Performer?
How often do you “change up” your approach - the way you great people, the clothes you wear?
How do you set the “tone” in your interviews?
If your behavior reflects your message, what does that behavior look like?
departing from a common point. following different routes and lines. the kind that provides a wide variety of possible answers.
The more times you get hurt, the quicker you learn.
