Course Name
The Art of Directing People: Theater Skills for Business
Schedule
October 14, 2025 - October 15, 2025
October 14 & 15, 2025
Tuesday & Wednesday
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Venue: Ateneo de Manila University – Salcedo Campus
Ateneo Professional Schools Building, 130 HV Dela Costa Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City
Early Eagle Rate:
Php 15,000
Valid Until:
October 01, 2025
Description
Take center stage! Be part of a “highly volatile and emotionally-charged” environment of the theater that produced many successful directors, who have learned the art of leading people.
Engage in theater-based exercises as a way to appreciate the essential tasks of leadership and management in a corporate or institutional setting. Using the work of a stage director as framework, you will establish the experiential basis on which to reflect on the practice of leadership and management.
Who should attend
Business executives and leaders, managers, supervisors, directors, and professionals who want to learn how to creatively lead their teams.
After the course, you will:
- Appreciate how theater exercises could be used in a corporate setting; and
- Apply new and creative techniques to effectively lead and encourage your team in reaching the company’s mission and vision.
Experience how a leader can direct people better through:
- Articulating thoughts and feelings
- Formulating a vision and getting others to share it
- Enlisting support and teamwork
- Making tough decisions and dealing with their consequences
- Overcoming constraints due to limited resources
- Dealing sympathetically and creatively with diverse human problems
Mr. Voltaire T. Gonzales is the Executive Director of Roleplayers Theater for Life. Prior to this, he held other posts, such as Executive Consultant for Summit Media, JG Summit/Rignier Media Co.; House of Investments, Yuchengco Group of Companies; Diamond Auto Group; Harrison, Subsidiary of McCann Erickson Worldwide. He was also the Head of Country Vehicle Sales, Corporate Communication, and Sales Training & Official Brand Spokesperson of Honda Cars in the Philippines. He further became the Brand Manager, for Asia and Oceania, of Honda Motor Co. Japan.
Mr. Gonzales is the Certified Regional Instructor for Total Quality Management, Customer Service, and Sales Excellence programs.
"Galing! Keep up the very dynamic methodology of training people." - Arlan IT Manager, PHILUSA Corporation
