Team building exercise

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One of the great benefits of team building is that it offers participants the opportunity to indulge their deepest desires and longstanding aspirations. Why not indulge in some film making activity which challenges teams to create their own unique commercial, which are then reviewed before a winner is announced.

Each team could be set the same creative challenge, while they are also equipped with an array of dazzling props, purposeful resources and even film production software. These teams then collaborate throughout the day to create their film, with a view to winning the grand prize in a ceremony.

With this in mind, what challenges will each team have to face through the course of the task? Consider the following: –

• Determining Roles and Responsibilities: While this is primarily a fun task, there are also a number of professional and leadership based challenges involved. Firstly, participants within each team must determine individual roles, with the selection of director, camera operator and actors particularly important!

• Creative Thinking and Visualization: The ability to think creatively and visualize concepts is crucial, especially when it comes to driving businesses forward. Your film making task will challenge team members to develop innovative themes and bring them to life, testing their judgement and ability to think outside of the box!

• The Correct Use of Props and Filming: The fact that each team has the same equipment is telling, and they are also given a single shot to film their commercial. This challenges the ability of each individual’s ability to work in harmony, while under intense pressure and strict time demands.

Once these challenges have been met, each participating team will present their adverts to their peers and judges. Appraised on the quality of their advert and a series of additional criteria that are set beforehand, the winners will receive their very own Oscar and experience the unadulterated excitement of a red carpet, silver screen experience.

Does your team fancy a stunt day?

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So, you’ve smashed your boss over the head with a bottle and shot him, only for him to get up, laugh, and shake your hand. You’re not dreaming, you’re in stunt training. You’ve watched bar room brawls, shootings and spectacular stunts in films and been dazzled by their realism. Now you will be trained by the men responsible for those stunts at the legendary Pinewood Studios, where the James Bond films and countless other blockbusters are filmed.

Yes, you could hire Stuntmen instructors and props to really make this a unique a fun day for all. After a full safety briefing and a warm up, the instructors will give a full demonstration of the stunts before training you to recreate them. Just like on a real film set, safety is paramount, and all of the stunts take place in controlled environments with the instructors supervising. You’ll be taught how to shoot blanks from pistols and revolvers, and how to fall realistically after being shot. There’s no need to worry about bruises though as your fall will be broken by safety mats.

You will also be taught how to smash a bottle over someone’s head without leaving so much as a scratch on them. This brilliant training day will live long in the memory and give you a fascinating insight into the film industry.

A brilliant day, and definitely unique, we are sure your staff will be talking about this in months to come.

Don’t forget to take your DVD home of all your stunts that you have done for the day!!

A day at the races?

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There’s no need to take a gamble with your company party, with a race night you’ll be odds-on to have a great evening. Dust off your best top hat or poshest dress and have a flutter on the sport of kings.

Your event could be made complete with betting booths and white picket fences to add a more authentic feel to the event. All of the excitement and glamour of the races will be brought to your event by a charismatic host who’ll keep you updated with the latest odds, and the glamorous Tote girls who’ll circulate around the tables taking your bets. There’s no need to worry about blowing your life savings as you’ll be gambling with fun money, so take a punt, lady luck might smile on you.

A giant screen will show 8 races on the flat and over jumps and you’ll have to study the form and place bets on whichever steeds take your fancy. The race commentator will call the action ensuring maximum drama and edge-of-your-seat tension. The team with the highest winnings (or smallest loss!) at the end of the evening will be presented with champion tipster medals.

What you could hire/buy for your Races day:

· Costumed Host
· Costumed canape girls
· Fun money
· Betting Slips
· Projector and screen
· Bottle of bubbly and medals for the winning team.

Make sure all your guests dress to impress, after all, it is a day at the Races!

Do you like Quizzes?

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Your quiz night could be based on the popular TV like The Krypton Factor. This Quiz night could be designed to offer a unique and different series of rounds which appeal to all. Each round involves every member of each team in an interactive way. This ensures you get full engagement and participation with lots of variety.

You can hire a professional compere who will inject a great level of energy and laughter to make sure your event is an experience rather than just a stereotyped ‘quiz’. Rounds can run before, during (between courses), or after dinner.

What would the advantages of a Quiz night bring to your staff?

Gets everyone involved unlike conventional quizzes
Hire a professional compere
Can run between courses of a meal
Draws upon different skills and knowledge
Fun and light hearted party entertainment

Examples:

Divided into: teams of between 8 and 10, groups will take on a variety of themed rounds. Each round is completely different to the last. All rounds and questions are presented by your hired compere with graphics displayed on a big screen. Each team records scores after each round, with points updates after every round. The finale round offers bonus points meaning teams who aren’t in the top 3 have the chance to catch up and steal the top spot.

OBSERVATION – carefully watch a detailed video ready to answer questions on what you see.
MOVIE MASH UP – you’ll see the visual from one movie with audio from another. Can you guess both?
CREATIVE – great British Bake Off cake decorating.
MENTAL – brain busting conundrums

We are sure that this would be a real ‘Ice Breaker’ for all your staff, it will certainly bring the best out of your staff.

Casino Christmas Party

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Why not hold a totally glamorous and sophisticated Casino Royale? You could be Joining the jet-set, avoid the paparazzi and stroll down the red carpet into Millionaires Casino.

Be greeted by the infectious rhythms of a live Band, and why not enjoy a range of delicious hot and cold canapes whilst relaxing with a drink at a themed bar

Enjoy a superb 3 or 4 course Dinner accompanied by a resident band and atmospheric tunes, then stand by to be entertained by stunning Aerial Silk and Hoop Acrobats.

Afterwards, head to an opulently furnished Casino where Roulette & Blackjack await or jump on Dodgem Cars. Make it until the early hours and enjoy a Survivors Breakfast!

This is just a selection of Casino Christmas party ideas, this will get your started and ideas will come flooding…

Stroll down the Red Carpet
Live Music from our Resident Band
Delicious Hot & Cold Canapes served
Superb 3/4 Course Dinner
Aerial Hoop Acrobatics
Spectacular Fire Performances
Stunning Aerial Finale
Dodgems, Disco and Casino
Survivors’ Breakfast

There are so many acts and entertainment to hire, but go with a theme and it shouldn’t be hard to slot everything into place just right for your Casino evening.

The Generation Game

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The Generation Game was part of British Saturday night television for many years, the Generation Game is a fun filled interactive event. This ultimate day of games, quizzes, and challenges will have your group in fits of riotous laughter and mayhem!

Imagine your colleagues competing to decorate their very own cake in the style of ‘The Great British Bake Off’ while others try to outdo each other in table cloth whipping! And for trivia boffins the events proceedings kick off with a quiz and rounds off with a memory challenge.

The Generation Game could be run during the day or for evenings (between courses of a meal or after-dinner entertainment.) Each round could be presented by a professional compere, all of whom come from a comedic background to make sure your event is filled with laughter. Groups of between 8 and 10 compete head-to-head, with each round designed to include every member of the team. After each round you will present the famous ‘scores on the doors’ so teams can see where they sit on the leader board.

Party Game ideas.

How well can you guestimate?
21 second challenges
Great British Bake Off – Cake decorating
Whippit- whip the table cloth away from a set dining table
Conveyer belt
What are the benefits of this team building exercise?

Laughter Guaranteed
Professional comedic host
Rounds to appeal to everyone
Real back to school childish fun
Can run during the day or evening
Something completely crazy and different
Prizes for the winning team

This event will please the most serious of people and get them to show their true fun side!

It’s the Knockout

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For years, It’s a Knockout – Undoubtedly the wettest, wildest, and wackiest competition on TV in it’s day. It combines the game’s traditional format with our own unique sense of fun to create the ultimate example of a motivational team-building event.

This is a great idea for team building because it’s:

BIG, bright and crazy fun
Something completely different
Everyone involved
Great head-to-head team competition
Amazing inflatables in a huge arena
A chance to be big kids again

So what could happen?

With everyone in the right frame of mind, teams of 8 to 12 people will be established, and the games can commence in earnest! Competing against each other for points and to avoid the dreaded booby prize, players will accept a range of unusual challenges to a relentless varied soundtrack.

Party Games ideas.

PENGUIN PURSUIT – Wearing giant penguin costumes you’ll race against other teams to catch the most fish!
THE SWEEPER – Taken from the famous Total Wipe-out TV show, teams must be quick to jump and avoid the rotating sweeper arm.
TROPICAL SCRABBLE – Teams race through an inflatable obstacle course collecting letters, the quickest team to spell a word wins!
BUNGEE RUN – Run as far as you can down an inflatable bungee runway with a large elastic cord tied to your waist. See who can get the furthest.
GLADIATOR DUEL – Knock your opponent off of their podium before they knock you off of yours!

So there you have it, fuel for thought. Amazing fun and will see your staff in a different light!

Dragons Den team building

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Dragons’ Den is a team-building event that gives your people the chance to do some real blue-sky thinking out of the office. Participants are split into teams and encouraged to conceptualise, research, and create a brand new product, idea, or service to take the market by storm. The theme can either be based on your business, for example, creating a marketing advert for an internal campaign, or simply left to the team’s innovation.

If you are looking to bring the best out of your staff, this Dragons Den idea is just great for:
Great for sharing new ideas and creative thinking
Brings the best out in people
Gives everyone the chance to be heard
Exposes new talents you may not see in the office
Ideal for getting involvement and buy in to new ideas or products
Fun, entertaining, competitive & inspiring
Links energy and results directly back to the workplace

Teams arrive in the ‘Den’ complete with themed music & graphics to emulate the real thing. The resident Evan Davies introduces the dragons who are normally a mixture of your senior members of your team. Groups head off to breakout rooms ready to plan their ideas and pitch.

Stages the teams could go through;

PLANNING: sharing ideas to come up with the winning formula concept
RESEARCH: target audience, competitors & unique selling points
MARKETING: graphics, presentation material and mock up designs
FINANCES: start-up costs, profits and forecast business value
THE PITCH: each member of the team must be involved in inspiring the Dragons

The event is light-hearted and FUN; however, a more serious twist can be applied. You may see an idea go on the market!!

Crime Scene Investigation

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Are you looking for some team building exercises? How about putting yourself on the other side of the crime scene tape? Under the guidance of experienced professionals teams will become Crime Scene Investigators for a day. Participants will learn actual forensic science and detection techniques, and use authentic Crime Scene Investigation equipment to locate and extract evidence, interpret findings and “solve a case.”

You could have a variety of crime events with different scenarios, and the techniques you will learn are based on your choice of event. These are great ideas for corporate event entertainment and help to get that team spirit ignited.

Crime Scene Investigation events are engaging and practical – teamwork, critical thinking and problem solving skills will be put to the test. They are specifically structured to improve communication and relationships between participants, and in a way that encourages full participation by everyone. Teams must manage themselves to ensure they come to a conclusion and solve the crime.

For an engaging, challenging and special event, beneficial to everyone involved, a Crime Scene event is exactly what you are looking for.

So next time you want to hold a corporate event, think about this idea, we sure it will be very popular.

Entertainment for your next Christmas party

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Sorry. We really are sorry. We know it’s still only August, which is still more than 3 months away. More than a third of a year away. But personal assistants and office managers are already being asked to book Christmas entertainment for the office party and it’s our job to help them out. Plus, between just the two of us, choosing to hire a Christmas DJ in advance may keep your costs down. For those who are looking to book even more festive entertainment, here are a few ideas to get you thinking.

Wonderland

Who doesn’t love Christmas lights? You might not attend the Oxford Street Christmas lights switch on and yes, the Regent Street Christmas lights has turned into a weirdly commercial venture promoting some Hollywood film for the past few years, but people still love a good light show and Wonderland put on one of the best! As the photo shows, holly leaves appear in LEDs around the performers and you can also expect to see snowflakes, stars and reindeer.

Ballerina in a Snow Globe

In terms of visual acts, they don’t get much better than a full size snow globe with a dancing ballerina inside. A beautiful idea that has been executed perfectly, the ballerina performs amidst a flurry of snowflakes. A male and female dancer can also be hired for a short performance and you can rest assured that none of your guests will have seen anything like it. A wonderful idea for the office Christmas party!

Christmas Carol Choir

A Christmas carol choir is probably more up your street. We advertise choirs from just a few people right up ten or more and if you like, you can sing along with the performance! Christmas carols are a timeless form of entertainment and can you really call your event a Christmas event without one.

Ice Queen

We advertise a whole host of Christmas characters for your party but for the Scrooges amongst you, we thought we’d profile the Ice Queen. One of the best bits about the Ice Queen character is that it can be good on its own or as part of a Christmas party theme (like Narnia for instance). A perfect idea to ensure that your Christmas party will be talked about well into the New Year!