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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Learn the hellish dance moves.
Zombie transformation with our make-up artist
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.
The boomwhacker event will energise your delegates
Our 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.
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.
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.
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.
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”→
Our 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.