10 Tactics to Create Captivating Conferences

Are you struggling with with your post-event survey scores? Are your events lacking in engagement and value adding features? Then it is time to give your event a new itinerary, individuals attend conferences to gain learn new skills, network with new people and share professional experiences, so what can you do to encapsulate all of these whilst keeping it fun and entertaining?

Contrary to what speaker bureau would have us believe, it is possible to put on an outstanding staff conference without paying a premium for a celebrity to ‘motivate’ the crowd through the graveyard shift.

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4 Ways to Make Zoom Calls More Engaging

Zoom calls can be tiring, and we have all had plenty of them over the past year and a bit. Whilst they can drag on, they are incredibly useful and if used correctly can increase camaraderie within a team and increase the overall quality of communication.

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Stop Working, Start Storytelling

Movies, plays, novels, even jokes are forms of storytelling and EVERYONE loves them. There were two brothers, one adored opera, his brother loved pantomime. Different genres, both with stories at their core, there’s not a person alive who doesn’t enjoy a good story, though we may differ in our preferred style of storytelling.

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Crystal Maze

The Crystal Maze is back on our TVs, with celebrity teams pitting their wits, wisdom and athleticism against a series of themed challenges.
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Alternative Christmas Dos

There are an increasing number of ways in which you can get the party started without breaking the bank or busting open the booze before 3pm.

Ice skating – Show the team that it can be fun to slip up occasionally, wrap up warm and spend an hour supporting one another around an ice rink.
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Warm Up Your Team

The weather is at last heating up so now’s the time to book in some team building!

Here are some brand new activities to inspire you:
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Office April Fools in pictures…

We’re great believers in the importance of fun in the workplace, as a way to increase creativity and release tensions, but just how far is too far…?
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Top 10 Office April Fools

Here are 10 office pranks that will bring a smile without a stern word from HR:

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What the F?

Have you ever given a talk and wondered if your audience are really paying attention?

Here’s an exercise that will put them to the test.
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3 Office Resolutions

As personal New Year Resolutions fade here are three revolutionary ideas to improve life in the office:

1. Less meetings, better conversations
Ban formal meetings on Mondays and Fridays, instead encourage lunches and informal chats over coffee at either end of the week. …