We’ve had a few weeks of relatively large conferences where we have been asked to deliver activities to groups of 300 or more delegates. With additional Haka and One Voice team singing events going on too, it’s been all go! There is something undeniably impressive when large groups combine their efforts to play, perform and respond [Continue Reading]
The Ultimate Conference Ice Breaker and Energiser
Last week, and first thing in the morning, an unsuspecting conference audience of just over 400 arrived a little bleary eyed and tired after a successful gala dinner the night before. No doubt hoping to gradually wake up and ease themselves into the day ahead, conference delegates probably expected the normal format of speakers and, perhaps, [Continue Reading]
Gumboot Dancing For Conference Energisers
Normally, we are asked to provide group activities that are highly relevant to a business meeting or conference – activities with an underlying business message or meaning that participants will uncover. Then again, sometimes, it’s just about trying something totally random and new, just like the series of morning conference energisers we delivered in Harrogate this [Continue Reading]
Morning Conference Energiser was a Thriller
There must be something about Telford Conference Centre! Whenever we go there, we could not ask for a better audience. We once delivered a conference drumming event there for The Body Shop. When our team of ten came out playing on stage, we were confronted with a screaming Beatlemania-type audience of over two thousand! This [Continue Reading]
Clap Happy: the Hands-On Conference Icebreaker…Just Add Rubber
Years ago, we started employing a five- to ten-minute rhythmical ice breaker – using just hands – at the beginning of our drumming and music-based teambuilding activities. The opening of a session is a critical time for both the head facilitator in charge and all the participants, who have just walked in to this very [Continue Reading]
From Rugby Haka to Exciting Team Building
As Rugby World Cup 2011 fever is in the air and the New Zealand All Blacks team are very much in the running, I thought I would expand on why the All Blacks use the Haka, and how it is used in our team building activities, ice breakers and energisers. For many generations, the All Blacks [Continue Reading]
Drumming Events from the Vault #2
One of the benefits of drumming events, especially in a conference situation, is that you can entertain and influence large numbers of delegates in a single room. I cannot think of many other activities that are practical to do with 500+ delegates in a single space that do not require extensive budget, technology or elaborate [Continue Reading]
Boomwhackers – the Team Building Potential of Plastic Tubes
When I first saw boomwhackers, I thought they looked silly, cheap and childish. Now, I believe they are the quickest to set up, most instantly colourful and best value-for-money corporate activity I know of. With nothing more than a big bag of simple plastic musical tubes, our expert facilitator can surprise, entertain and create a performance orchestra [Continue Reading]