For the last five years, we have been using singing as a team building activity, meeting ice breaker and conference energiser. In this post, I speak to Nathan Taylor, our head vocal coach. The human voice is the oldest instrument known to man and the most personal signature we have. It has the power to provoke every [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]
Size Doesn’t Matter in Team Building
We get asked all the time, “What is the average size of group that you work with?” That’s hard to answer, as it changes day-to-day. Last week, we had a group of 600 participants and the other day it was a group of 10. The largest group we have delivered to, in a single corporate team [Continue Reading]
The Role of Leaders and Senior Managers Within Corporate Team Activities
Leaders, senior managers and Managing Directors have a crucial influence on the behaviour of their teams when it comes to conferences, meetings or team building events. Over the years, we have seen the very best and the not so very best at these key company moments. I always try, subtly, to get over to the most [Continue Reading]
Drumming Event from the Vault #1: Malaysia
In this post, I wanted to document an interesting corporate event we have delivered in the past. This is not done to show off exotic locations or large delegate numbers, but because it was something that left us with fantastic teambuilding moments and personal memories and demonstrated the power of creative energy. Four of our drum [Continue Reading]
Urban Team Building Goes Country
Our Urban Jam consist of a number of themed zones, where stunned clients are asked to sample Human Beatbox and Rap, Graffiti, Junk Percussion and Street Moves. Urban Jam is a co-creation with our very good friends Mind Adrenaline, another great creative corporate activity company. We have worked together for over six years in Europe and the USA to [Continue Reading]
Drumming in Leadership Training
By taking our team building drumming sessions to a much deeper level, we have devised many formats and exercises that perfectly complement training and development sessions. In a training context, our number one objective is to be relevant to the course or the client’s specific outcomes. This is a terrific challenge but highly rewarding. We know [Continue Reading]
Way Beyond Executive Team Building
Often, we are asked to merge one of our creative activities with another event, for use within a senior management environment. This might be an executive team building course, a communication programme, or a change management seminar. By doing so, we are asked to deliver much deeper objectives and we relish these challenges. This leads us [Continue Reading]
Drumming to Reduce Stress on ITV
After just finishing a teambuilding activity at Celtic Manor on a windy hillside in Wales last week, an unexpected phone call led me to the ITV television studios in London the next day. I was invited to demonstrate the use of drumming workshops as a stress therapy on This Morning, the nation’s most-watched morning TV show. We [Continue Reading]
Drumming for the Whole Family
Drum circles have been around in earnest in the UK for around 15 years. Their growing popularity has brought them, and drumming workshops in general, to the attention of teambuilding companies for corporate event planning. Drum circle participants range from complete beginners upwards and normally the emphasis is on creating an “in the moment” experience using [Continue Reading]