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Utilizing the foundational principals of improvisation, we developed a practicum that gives early career researchers an opportunity to practice the skills necessary to successfully communicate their work orally to both public and professional audiences. Course evaluation data indicate that students find the practicum to be an effective route to increase both confidence and self-efficacy in their communication skills. Due to the instructor’s emphasis on creating a supportive learning community, the practicum can only accommodate a small number of students each semester. To address this challenge, we developed a training institute for instructors to learn how to teach the practicum or incorporate a subset of the content into their existing courses and workshops. Similar to the practicum, we found a 2.5-day Training Institute to be an effective way to train faculty developers how to innovate and incorporate improv-based principles into their local programming.