More and more clients are looking for extra value in their conferences and team events. We have made our reputation on being able to add ideas and provide the flexibility to enhance events. Below is a perfect example where we have achieved this with the staff and equipment that was already there on site. We [Continue Reading]
Team Building Activities With a Translator
Over the years, we have had to deliver a variety of our team building activities to groups that require a translator. This is normally because the particular teams or delegates participating don’t all have English as a first or second language. After our recent trip to the USA to deliver a morning icebreaker for 400 [Continue Reading]
Avoiding Event Planning Pitfalls
I recently received an email from a friend asking for some advice about common challenges we experience in dealing with event planners. As we are dealing with enquiries from direct clients as well as from many event organisers, our office team and (eventually) our facilitators all feel the effects of good, or not so good, event [Continue Reading]
Last-Minute Team Building Emergencies
There has been a monumental shift in the way clients arrange team building events and source suppliers and venues. The Internet has, for better or worse, reduced the period between event enquiry and event delivery. Once upon a time, it was normal for clients to enquire about and confirm events three to six months in [Continue Reading]
Flexibility in Team Building Events
Every few months, we get what we call in the office a ‘hot-spot day’. This is a day where everybody just seems to want similar or exactly the same activities at the exact time. One day this very week was one of those hot-spot day. In fact, we called it ‘Boomwhacker Wednesday’! Just by random chance, [Continue Reading]
The Secrets to Team Engagement in Team Building Events
We have recently been asked to contribute to a magazine article about shyness and engagement of participants in conferences and team building events and I thought they would good topics for today. Companies invest thousands – sometimes hundreds of thousands of pounds – in conferences and team building, often to communicate a vision or create a [Continue Reading]
…and the Bells Rang Out for Christmas Team Building
With only around two weeks left before Christmas, time is running out if you want to bring the unmistakable chiming sound of Christmas bells to your end-of-year conference, meeting or evening party. Every year, we offer our traditional fun challenge where your group will learn to play our seasonal hand bells. These hand bells are all [Continue Reading]
Considering Your First Ever Teambuilding Session?
Every enquiry we receive, especially by phone, is exciting. Explaining all the available options that best suits the brief and then detailing how they actually work inevitably leads to involuntary hand gesticulations and bursts of pent-up enthusiasm to describe the imaginary scene to the listener. We’re quite a passionate lot! There is one type of [Continue Reading]
The Critical Importance of the Facilitator in Team Building
Sometimes we are surprised at the lack of importance clients place on the most crucial aspect of a teambuilding event – the facilitator leading the activity. We spend a lot of time responding to questions about almost everything else about a session apart from how it is led. Yet, how a session is delivered to [Continue Reading]
The Importance of Passion and Dedication
Last week, we were asked to deliver a full day’s session for a secondary school. We rarely work in schools as our expertise and formats are more geared toward the corporate market. The purpose of the day was to illustrate to pupils that, in life, anything is possible if you have the passion and dedication [Continue Reading]