team building

Do you want an energiser that gets your conference attendees moving to the same beat? Junk Percussion

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Junk percussion ice breaker and energiser events to make your conference rock!

Are you looking for a fun and exciting way to get your employees buzzing with energy? Do you want an energiser or ice breaker to really get your conference attendees moving to the same beat? Do you want the energy of hit West End show of Stomp to motivate your team?

If so why not book our rhythmic Junk Percussion Experience. Our expert team will deliver a fun, fast paced, energising team building workshop which will have everyone in the room smiling and working together to create music from junk.

The drumming workshops are very effective as an ice breaker or energizer session between 30 to 60 minutes with a group size of 5 to 100+. We can run the event anywhere you need us to whether it’s your office, a hotel, conference centre or even al fresco!

No previous skill  or musical background is required as our friendly expert team will warm everyone up with simple rhythm exercises to get people creating music together. We then develop these ideas into a final performance with split group rhythms, different dynamics and even solos!

The focus is on fun, laughing, creating music and high energy. This event really brings people together with a big smile and something to talk about afterwards.

“It was great fun and from chatting with people afterwards they were all having a laugh about it in the evening and talking about it the next day- which is testament to the fun they had. I think it was a great opportunity to try something new and different for most people and you guys did a great job in getting everyone involved, smiling and having a laugh, which was the main thing.” Nick Cheyne – Associate Commercial Strategy Manager, Pfizer Oncology

For more info visit the junk percussion page.

If you require more information or would like a no obligation quote contact us at mailto:info@rockandrollexperience.co.uk or call 08432898587.

Halloween Thriller Team Building Ideas

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Make your staff feel valued by turning them into zombies.

Are your staff bored of the same generic team building events? Is it the same thing year after year? Are you looking for something more fun and engaging?

If yes, then take a look at our new Rock & Roll Thriller Team Building Live Event.

It is guaranteed to scare them into feeling valued and help them gel as a team.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller is one of the most iconic and copied dance routines in the world; now you can your staff can also be a part of it.

No dance experience needed, our professional choreographers will help you every step of the way, even if you think you have two left feet!

This unique team building event is broken into three stages:

  1. Learn the hellish dance moves.
  2. Zombie transformation with our make-up artist
  3. Performance time.

Make a night of it

You could even combine this with our live band The Right Hook so the dance routine is carried out with a live band performing the music.

The Rock and Roll team can create a bespoke team building event however big or small. We can come to your office, a conference centre or a music venue for more authenticity.

We can even find the venue for you if you don’t have time. Let us take care of it so all you have to do is turn up and join the dancing undead.

Book now to receive a 10% discount quoting code THRILLER10 or get in touch for more information.

Boomwhacker Team Building Icebreaker

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Looking for a different conference icebreaker?

The boomwhacker event will energise your delegates

team building, confrence, energiser, away day, music, icebreaker , conference icebreakerOur boomwhacker event is very popular and people always respond very well to it. But for people that have never seen boomwhackers they often have no idea what on earth this icebreaker is all about.

Boomwhackers are colourful plastic tubes that are tuned to a certain note. You can hit them together or hit them against your hand and they create a percussive sound with a definite note.

Our icebreaker and energiser team building events use these tubes to get a group working together, listening to each other, creating together and enagaging with one another. It is a very accessible event and the emphasis is on fun.

Here are some common questions and answers to help you quickly understand.

What Happens?

Delegates are taken through fun rhythmic warm up games to get them working together. They must communicate visually and through music with one another to work as a cohesive group. We then learn patterns which lead to the melody of a well know tune. At the end we bring it all together to create the performance where they will be surprised at how good they sound. A boomwhacker orchestra has been created!

How long does it last?

This works best from around 30 minutes to one or two hours. It’s great as a high impact, short session that leaves the delegates energised and ready for the next part of the day, or to end the day after a more sedentary conference style session.

How many people can take part?

Groups from around five people up to hundreds can take part. It works very well with small groups and allows a more intimate approach but when we get to work with large groups it’s also fantastic as the end result is that much more powerful.

Do we need musical ability?

NO! This event works for any age group, any physical ability, and skill set and best of all no experience is necessary.

Visit our boomwhacker event page or get in touch to find out more or book a session.

Check out this video to get a feel for the boomwhcaker conference  energiser session.

Team Building Event Videos

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Team Building Event Videos

Check out our new corporate entertainment and team building event videos

We have a series of new videos that demonstrate the various corporate entertainment and team building events that we do. Below you can see the promotional video for our live band that entertain hundreds of people each year at corporate events, conferences, office parties and any other event when great music is needed. You can also see the end result of our flagship Rock & Roll Experience where delegates are taught to play in a band before performing on stage. As well as this we have a video that shows our Rock & Roll Choir event. Here non-singers are coached to work in perfect harmony before learning a well known rock track.

Our live band ‘The Right Hook’ never fail to get everybody in the room up dancing and having an amazing time. Their repertoire is vast and you will often see their frontman grabbing his mic and heading out into the audience to make sure everyone is having a good time. All the musicians are professional performers and their chemistry as a group is what leads clients to rebook them time and time again.

For more information on what we can supply click here.

The Rock and Roll Choir event is a very effective and fun team building event along the lines of Gareth Malone’s TV shows that see work groups forming choirs. But here we add a large dollop of rock and roll so that songs are chosen from bands such as Queen, Kings of Leon, the Beach Boys, and more. No matter how tone deaf people think they are, our facilitators always get them working together to create the seemingly impossible. And the positive effect this has on a team is tangible.

For more information on the event click here.

Here is the final performances from a recent team building Rock & Roll Experience event with Five Guys burgers. These guys really threw themselves into it and had an excellent time at their annual general managers conference.

For more information on the event click here.

Don’t forget to check out our other team building and evening entertainment event at www.rockandrollexperience.co.uk

Maximise Your Team Building & Learning and Development

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Make Sure You Get a ROI From Your Sessions

In a recent CIPD learning and development survey, the overall discovery was that companies are increasingly expecting measurable and professional results from their chosen method of learning and development.

They found a significant shift towards greater integration with the business and more awareness and recognition of the importance of evaluating business impact.

When we fuse these findings with the results of another survey, which you can read about here, we see that fun and exciting training sessions are far more engaging and effective than boring ones.

For us at Rock & Roll Experience, we couldn’t be happier with these results because the foundation of our business is built on a desire to provide effective and measurable team building sessions that are exciting, fun and memorable.

So here are some of the key findings: Continue reading “Maximise Your Team Building & Learning and Development” →

Create a Successful Team

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The secrets of a winning team

A recent survey conducted by communications software company Unify, looked into teams that are not based in a single location and the ingredients that made the difference between unsuccessful and successful teams. The outcome was that being grouped in the same location, or spread geographically in several locations actually has no direct impact on the success of that team.

What did have an impact was how those team members communicated with one another. The pertinent finding was the way in which those team members engaged with each other, the frequency of that engagement, and openness that they displayed when communicating. Simply put, the successful teams were the ones that engaged often, spoke their minds, contributed freely, spoke on a personal level, and contributed equally to the mission.

Here is a short comparison of the findings grouped between teams that considered themselves to be successful and teams that considered their success to be very limited. Continue reading “Create a Successful Team” →

Corporate Team Building – Make A Music Video

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Design your own music video or recreate a famous one

This is one of our most popular music based corporate team building events. Here clients are given the chance to design, plan and perform in their own music video. In the standard package they will learn to play their instruments, write a song, and perform it on stage like a real rock band!

But as an alternative, the music video session doesn’t involve actual playing of musical instruments. Instead delegates simply mime and perform to camera.

This takes the excitement to a whole new level as they design, plan, and turn the video into a reality.

As well as being a great, fun experience, this is also an excellent way to use corporate music sessions to tackle real business team dynamic problems that are disruptive in the workplace. Continue reading “Corporate Team Building – Make A Music Video” →

Are you dealing with a group or a team?

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Are you cultivating work teams or groups?

On the surface a group and a team might seem like one and the same but there are crucial differences between the inner workings of each one. If you have the wrong type in your company, then productivity and effectiveness will be dramatically adversely affected. Continue reading “Are you dealing with a group or a team?” →

What Is Team Building?

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How Can Team Building Help Us?

We’re all aware of team building, and many of us have been dragged out on various team building days: some of which might have been fun and highly effective, whilst others might have been boring, embarrassing and a complete waste of time.

But what is the point of it all? Here we take a quick look at this all important question. Continue reading “What Is Team Building?” →

Employee Motivation

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Employee motivation is a crucial aspect of an effective team. An unmotivated team will be unproductive, and liable to cause more conflict within the group.

A motivated team consists of members that naturally strive to get the task completed quickly and to a high standard. They are more likely to go beyond the minimum expectation, they will be enthused, engaged, and able to contribute to the task with ideas, solutions and creativity.

An unmotivated team will need constant leadership intervention just to get them moving and completing tasks to the minimum requirement. They are less likely to contribute beyond what is asked of them, and are less likely to offer useful ideas. They also have greater potential for bringing down the naturally motivated members and therefore sabotaging large numbers of the team.

So it is safe to say that a highly motivated team is essential to business success but how do we create a naturally motivated team? Continue reading “Employee Motivation” →