Shine Like A Star With Our Rock and Roll Choir

Shine like a star and sing your way to success with our rock and roll choir team building event. Singing has always  been big business and now with the likes of Gary Barlow launching his new Saturday night talent show “Let it Shine” or Simon Cowell with the “X Factor”, it seems more and more people are singing their hearts out and enjoying their moment in the limelight.rock choir, rock and roll, gary barlow, let it shine, simon cowell, x factor, team building

Singing together is one of the best teambuilding activities you can do.  Why?  Because singing in a choir improves confidence and communication between people, reduces their stress levels and increases their sense of wellbeing and alertness. Our Rock and Roll Choir Team Building Event workshops can be a large or small group activity that creates harmony whilst providing loads of fun. With our trained vocalists we will take the teams through some enjoyable vocal and rhythm exercises. Amidst much laughter, a journey of discovery is undertaken in which a harmonious, unified team is created. At the end they will be able to sing a popular tune as a choir group with surprisingly good results.

No previous singing experience is needed for these workshops. We choose easily accessible songs from the rock and pop world. This can be based upon the ethos of your company, a recent project, or simply chosen by us. Our choir events can run as a short ice breaker or energizer session, as well as a longer team building event which allow the delegates to write their own lyrics to a famous song which could be linked to your company or left open to their imagination.

So why choose the Rock and Roll choir? Here’s a list that highlights the benefits of this event:

  • Improving communication between departments, management and co-workers.
  • Increase effectiveness in accomplishing a goal.
  • Better team and better leadership skills.
  • Uplifting morale and team spirit
  • Bringing a sense of harmony into the work place.
  • Developing co-operation and trust.
  • Bonding and motivation.
  • Better interpersonal relationships.
  • Increased motivation and a sense of achievement.
  • More energy and receptivity.
  • Learning acute listening skills.
  • Increasing focus, alertness and concentration.

Take a look at our video below of  a recent Rock and Roll choir event. If you like it and want more information get in contact today for a no obligation quote.

Top 10 Team Building Resolutions – Create a winning team

Team Building Resolutions

Have you made any  team building resolutions for the New Year? You should.

The best team building strategies come from strong leaders that set goals and we have a few suggestions to help you get started:
1. Take some notes. What worked last year? What didn’t work? Set some goals and start planning for 2017 now.

2. Incorporate team building activities into a monthly meeting and try to make them fun and engaging.

3. Schedule an annual team building event and make it interesting and unique so that it inspires everyone and they look forward to the next one.

4. Share a meal with a few different collegues each month and get to know your employees better.team building resolutions

5. Invest in some corporate training programs for yourself and your colleagues.

6. Consider some company perks, such as a gym membership or start a running club. This will boost company productivity and also enhance relationships.

7. Set up a reward plan for collegues who are performing well, this will encourage others to do the same.

8. Read a team building book to help you get ideas to help your company grow and achieve more success.

9. Change the office around so that people are mixed up more and sitting next to people they may not know so well.

10. Be positive! Maintaining a positive attitude at work is very important as it will rub off on other people in the office and will make everyone perform better.

We provide a unique range of music based events from our rock band experience, through the rock and roll choir, to our Thriller zombie dance event.

If you are looking for a fun and engaging team building activity then why not get in contact today to discuss our range of events and see what would suit your company.

 

 

 

 

Why competition at work is good

Don’t be afraid of competition at work

They say there’s nothing like a little friendly competition at work to bring people together. After hosting so many team building events and experiencing team building activities, we have proof to back that up. People love a little friendly competition, so much so that most of our Team Building Activities have some competitive elements.

Competition at work drives us to do better

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Rock & Roll Gameshow

Competition works as a motivator because it pushes us to exceed and do better. Not only are we driven to exceed our own capabilities, but also those of our teammates and coworkers as well. Friendly competition in a relaxed setting, encourages people to work together and to spend time together, creating social bonds which strengthen teamwork. Taking it a step further, competition fosters cooperation, which is the backbone of good teamwork.

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”

We all know how easy it can be to become jealous and in some cases people can take it to heart if they are losing, which can cause bad feeling. Sore losers can easily spoil the fun, while bragging winners can also ruin a joyous atmosphere. How do you keep the event friendly whilst still encouraging people to compete against each other?

Some of our programs feature some kind of contest, for example our gameshow event is structured around the idea that competition brings out the best in people, plus there are several rounds where everyone can win something. Our rock band experience sees people taught to play an instrument and then rehearse in a band before competing in the battle of the bands. Our facilitators are specially trained to keep the games friendly and exciting, They’ll make sure bragging winners or sore losers won’t spoil the event for anyone. All our events are fun and engaging, so that everyone walks away feeling like a winner! Why not get in contact today to discuss our range of events and see what would suit your company.

 

 

Christmas Party Ideas

Book a Christmas Party that will be remembered for the right reasons

With Summer well and truly over and autumn on its way, it won’t be long until you will be putting up your tree ready for the festive season. Let’s be honest, Christmas does seem to creep us on us all so why not start researching your Christmas party now. These things get booked up early so why not get something in the diary!

Rock & Roll Christmas Party

If you are looking for a fun and engaging team building event as well as a top quality band then look no further! The Rock and Roll game Show is a unique and raucous after dinner event. It’s a music quiz like no other using a live band to create an exciting event that will last long in the memory. Think ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ but with real musicians on stage and you will have some idea of what to expect. With rounds such as ‘guess the next lyric’, ‘create the guitar solo on a kazoo’, and ‘what’s this dance move?’ it is a real crowd pleaser and really gets people going and with it being Christmas we would tailor the event to fit in with the festive season.

It works very well after dinner and bridges the gap between the evening meal and the party entertainment afterwards. The rock and roll game show can be booked as a stand alone event or alongside our live music packages. If booked as an add-on with the live band event it becomes very cost effective as it Live music, party band, wedding band, corporate entertainment, Christmas partyuses the band and their equipment, which are already set up for the evening.

 

Our live band The Right Hook have worked across the UK, Europe and the Middle East performing at every type of event from weddings to office parties to corporate product launches and many other occasions they have a huge repertoire and perform to a very high standard every time, and yet only need a small space in which to perform. They supply a state of the art PA and lighting system so they are all you need for a full night’s entertainment.

Don’t leave it get in touch now to enquire.

Top Tips to Boost Halloween sales

Increase Halloween Sales with these Top Tips

It’s been a busy summer for the Rock and Roll Experience and it looks like it’s now time to hang up our flip flops and bring out the jumper. But before you start preparing for darker evenings and feeling less motivated why not use the season changes as a way to boost your company Halloween sales? There are many holidays and events during the year you can leverage to promote your business and generate more sales.

As we all know Christmas is the most popular and profitable time of year, but with Halloween sales now worth over £330m in the UK alone, it should definitely not be forgotten. The great thing is, you have the chance to have a little fun with it at the same time. Use social media, or local media to promote any special events, products and promotions to ensure you make the most of the spooky season.

Create a Halloween version of a product you sell Top tips for halloween sales

Putting a spooky spin on a product you already sell is a fantastic way for your business to get into the spirit of Halloween, while allowing you to keep costs down. For example, if you’re a restaurant, or cafe, you could offer pumpkin spiced coffee or decorated cookies or themed cupcakes. Alternatively, if you run a beauty salon, you could advertise Halloween makeovers, and themed manicures or even children’s face painting! If you’re using social media to advertise your themed products, make sure you include some photographs of what you have on offer, as research suggests that users are more likely to engage with posts that have pictures.

Change your window display for increased Halloween sales

Changing your display to suit the season can really help you to make a good impression on passers by and to entice customers into your business, you should change your window display monthly to keep customers interest. You can also use your windows to promote any special offers or events that you will be running. Give your windows the ultimate Halloween make-over by using lights, cobwebs and pumpkins, which will give your store a fun and festive feel. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to do this.

Run a social Media Competition

You can create excitement with minimal effort by engaging your customers on social media. One way of doing this is to hold an online fancy dress competition. You can encourage your customers to post their best Halloween costumes to your social media site, tagging your business page, or including a hashtag, to involve your followers. A great prize would be a voucher to spend within your business, as people using gift cards spend on average 40% more than the value of the voucher on purchases in store or online.

Partner with another business

Choosing to partner up with another business during important seasonal events of the year can prove to be very beneficial for you and your chosen business and it is a fantastic way to find new customers. Great partner choices include sweets shops, party-supply or fancy dress shops. If you own a restaurant, you could give your customers a voucher to receive discount at a fancy dress shop, and they can do the same for you.

Book a Halloween Themed Team Building Event Halloween sales top tips

If your office or shop employees seem a little flat as the winter months approach, perhaps you are looking for ways to boost team morale within your company and get everyone enjoying themselves and reconnecting as a team.There are many spooky team building events out there which will energise your employees ready for a productive winter. One of the team building events we offer is the Thriller Experience. We take Micheal Jackson’s iconic Thriller dance routine and give your team the chance to be stars of the show. No dance experience is necessary and even those with two left feet will be surprised at how much fun they have. Using professional choreographers, we teach you the classic moves from the famous Thriller routine before bringing it all together to learn it for a full performance. Our make-up artists then provide the zombie make-over so you look the part.

Get in touch today for a no obligation quote.

 

Top Tips to Boost Company Morale

Get your team happy and they’ll give you their best – Improve company morale

Low company morale can seriously damage a company. Everybody wants to have a job they believe in and to feel motivated and inspired. If employees feel this they are more likely to work harder and go that extra mile.

So what is morale? And why is it important to a team’s success and a company’s business goals?

boost company moraleMorale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose. Clearly this is something everyone wants for their company. If people feel good about their team, they’ll work harder towards a common goal and achieve more success.

Alternatively when a company lacks morale it will suffer, work will have a slower pace and people won’t have the enthusiasm. There are a variety of reasons that a company might not be doing so well. It could be down to poor leadership and communication, large workloads or even a lack of appreciation from managers. All these factors have a big impact on the way your team works together.

So, how can you avoid a depressing work atmosphere that’s full of unhappy employees and effectively build team morale? We’ve compiled a few tips to help you.

Morning Meeting:

A chat with your team over a morning brew can do wonders for company morale. It will give the team focus for the day ahead and drive to ensure they achieve their goals set out for them. Try to make it fun and engaging so that everyone leaves the room feeing inspired.

Change of Scenery:

Sometimes its easy for things to just chug along at a steady pace and staff begin to get abit bored, that’s why its important to have have change and keep things fresh. Perhaps you could hold meetings outside in the summer, in a different venue or  have a staff lunch afterwards. Although the best way to stimulate your employees would be to arrange a team building event. This will help re-energise and refocus your team.

Change the way you operate:

Make your company more team oriented, even in the smallest ways. Changing your everyday routine can help employees to feel more included and essential to the company’s success.  Talk about people working with you, not for you. Call your departments teams.  Also ask your employees to get involved in areas of the company that aren’t necessarily their job, this will benefit your company and it will increase their self worth. Most importantly, celebrate accomplishments.  Little or big rewards will make your employees feel good, and encourage them to keep going.

So there are so many possibilities for boosting team morale and what’s feasible for your company depends on its atmosphere and culture but no matter what your budget may be, there are affordable options.

If you would like more information  about our team building events and we how we help you start to cultivate a happy team then get in contact today for a no obligation quote.

Rock and Roll Choir Team Building Event

How to sing your way to Success

Choirs are big news at the moment due to people like Gareth Malone and the BBC’s Last Choir Standing revolutionizing the choir world. Our Rock and Roll Choir Team Building Event workshops can be a large or small group activity that creates harmony whilst providing loads of fun. With our trained vocalists we will take the teams through some enjoyable vocal and rhythm exercises. Amidst much laughter, a journey of discovery is undertaken in which a harmonious, unified team is created. At the end they will be able to sing a popular tune as a choir group with surprisingly good results.

No previous singing experience is needed for these workshops. We choose easily accessible songs from the rock and pop world. This can be based upon the ethos of your company, a recent project, or simply chosen by us. Our choir events can run as a short ice breaker or energizer session, as well as a longer team building event which allow the delegates to write their own lyrics to a famous song which could be linked to your company or left open to their imagination.

So why choose the Rock and Roll choir? Here’s a list that highlights the benefits of this event:

  • Improving communication between departments, management and co-workers.
  • Increasing effectiveness in accomplishing a goal.
  • Better team and better leadership skills.
  • Uplifting morale and team spirit
  • Bringing a sense of harmony into the work place.
  • Developing co-operation and trust.
  • Bonding and motivation.
  • Better interpersonal relationships.
  • Increased motivation and a sense of achievement.
  • More energy and receptivity.
  • Learning acute listening skills.
  • Increasing focus, alertness and concentration.

Take a look at our video below of  a recent Rock and Roll choir event. If you like it and want more information get in contact today for a no obligation quote.

Rock Star Team Building Music Video

Rock Star Team Building Ideas

It’s time to step under the studio lights, strut your stuff, and make your very own memorable pop video with a rock star team building event. We bring all the lighting, filming equipment, rock star outfits, make up and props to transform you all into pop or rock star for the day.

Our team of professional singers & filmmakers will guide  you from start to finish. This rock star music video team building experience involves rewriting the lyrics to a famous song, recording the lyrics to the newly written song before designing and starring in your very own rock video.This will take place on location in full costume. The video is then professionally edited  and delivered to you, which will be a awesome memento of this unique music experience.

Not only is this Rock Star music team building event brilliant fun, it also really brings work colleagues together in a creative environment to pool their ideas and create something to brief in a short time frame. Having the digital video memento also means that they can share this experience with each other and other worm friends for years to come. That way the positive impact stretches even further to provide greater results from the event..

To get a feel for this event, see the video below which was recorded at a previous event and contact us today for a no obligation quote.

Conference icebreaker sessions

Simple but effective conference icebreaker

An conference icebreaker or energiser session is crucial. The task of keeping large groups of people engaged and focused at corporate conferences is the biggest challenge when planning your company conference. No matter how interesting your content, the human brain can only take so much information before it starts to lose concentration.

Our musical boomwhacker events have proven very effective at creating the antidote with a vibrant fun conference icebreaker that is very quick to set up, totally interactive and gets the delegates working together to create something special and memorable.

Boomwhackers are plastic tubes which are struck to create a percussive sound. Each different coloured tube creates a different melodic note so when conducted effectively en masse you have your own colourful orchestra! In fact by the end of a session as short as thirty minutes the group will be playing a piece by Beethoven.

This event provides an energising, high impact and brilliantly visual team building conference energiser activity. Our trained charismatic facilitator is able to very quickly teach the notes using colour codes to create a performance that encourages each tone group to take ownership of their new role and support the people around them. These groups will then play their notes as one to create their own musical masterpiece.

Boomwhackers can be used for a variety of purposes, including as an icebreaker, energiser or introduction to an event. They are suitable for all venues because they are small, light and take seconds to distribute throughout the room. Boomwhackers also provide a great option at venues that are concerned about noise levels because they are relatively quiet.

So don’t miss out on having a high-impact conference energiser that will guarantee maximum engagement in a fun, hassle free session.

We also have a very successful Rock Choir conference energiser that you might like to look at as well.

Get in touch today for a no obligation quote.

For an equally effective alternative you may like our Rock & Roll Choir event

Rock Star Team Building

Bring some rock star quality to your team

Here at Rock & Roll Experience we provide rock star team building events, as well conference energisers and ice breakers. They are energetic, fun, great at bonding people, creative and highly memorable.

But unlike many team building companies that pump out (or outsource) a multitude of different types if events, we specialise. That’s because our rock star team building events are actually facilitated by professional musicians.

It is very important to us that every member of our team is a working musical professional that lives and breathes music and has a real passion for sharing that with our clients. We are proud of this and it is why we can provide the true rock star team building experience.

Our team have worked with Paloma Faith, Josh Groban, 2012 Olympic games ceremony, Coldplay, West End theatre productions, numerous TV credits and many more. They regularly record with major record label artists and perform at venues around the world.

We take the time to find out exactly what you want your event to achieve and we get to work to tailor our events to exactly meet your needs. We then supply all the equipment and professional musician facilitators to give your team an event they will remember for all the right reasons.

This includes performing in a band, writing songs, making music videos, forming rock choirs, taking part in fast paced percussion events, learning the Thriller dance in costume as zombies, and much more.

To explore the rock star team building events that we offer have a look around our website. Or get in touch to see how we can help bring some rock and roll to your work place and get your team motivated.

And here is the latest video from our lead percussion facilitator playing drums with Sony/ATV band Fears.