Refresh Your Team's Focus!

"A lighthearted exploration in communication, cooperation and creative skills!"

Seattle-based Comedic Entertainer, Frank Harlan offers an engaging team building program that provides an opportunity for all participants to get actively involved in hands-on activities, mind-altering challenges and laugh-out-loud celebration!

With his program, “Funny Ways of Making Connections”, Frank Harlan guides participants through a series of creative exercises, and performance techniques utilized by professional comedy entertainers.

Working individually and in small groups, Harlan encourages participants to put all seriousness aside and let the true characters that make up each individual come out and play. 

Team Bonding = Team Building

Material incorporated into “Funny Ways of Making Connections” allows participants to put down their guard and engage in playful communication with other members of your organization. This creative experience showcases influential human attributes (i.e. Apprehension, confusion and success) and attempts to bring to light the process of changing one’s mind, and actions, by sharing concrete examples of how to separate reality from illusion, or truth from non-truth. For individuals participating in these hands-on activities and methods of perception, extraordinary alliances amongst coworkers will be initiated.

“Funny Ways of Making Connections” is guaranteed to be one of the most entertaining and memorable team bonding experiences your team will ever participate in!

“Funny Ways of Making Connections” will have an effect on everyone involved. Some participants will chuckle and some will giggle, while others will find themselves helplessly caught up in fits of uncontrollable laughter..
In spite of this, the overall process will help your group to:

• Increase Team Morale
• Develop Trusting and Cohesive Relationships
• Experiment with Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
• Enhance Listening Skills
• Improve Problem Solving Techniques
• Respect and Support the Talents and Viewpoints of Others
• Change Perceptions and Clarify Intentions
• Engage in Non-Linear Thinking

Frank Harlan's creative personality, combined with his professional experience entertaining audiences of all ages has been instrumental in developing a unique style of facilitation. He will immediately find a comfort zone that will motivate your team members to play hard, participate enthusiastically, and communicate openly in ways they (and you) may have never imagined. 

“Funny Ways of Making Connections" is a 2.5 hour program for groups of 5 to 50.
Other programs available for larger groups.

"A fantastic all-around speaker to present to your organization!"

“I must confess my initial skepticism…most of our team consists of pretty serious introverts and I worried about how well they would be able to make a connection.  To my pleasant surprise some of them joined in quite easily.  This was due to your gift of reaching across multi-dimensional barriers and creating a safe and fun place to join, play, interact, and let loose… As the cornerstone to making a shift in the direction of our team, this event helped us lay a strong foundation to build morale, solid relationships, and the groundwork we needed to create team cohesiveness. ~  Nicki Good , Microsoft.com Customer Intelligence

"...everyone had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed themselves." ~  Jennifer Veith, Microsoft Office Localization

"Wow-did we ever pick the right guy! Frank Harlan blew the walls off the box. He got us laughing, propelled us into the creative zone, and kicked off our strategy session with a bang. Frank defies categorization… "team-building" doesn't begin to capture his magic. Our employees called this the most productive business brainstorming we've ever done." ~ Frith Maier, President Sesame Communications

Recent clients have included the Boeing Co., Microsoft, Rockwell Software, HL2, Sno-Isle Library Systems, Puget Sound Energy, State Farm Insurance, Peninsula Community Health Services, Community Services of West Hawaii and Moss Adams LLP

"Good Clean Corporate Safe Adult-Friendly Fun."