Sample Format

The Communication Puzzle can be especially effective when included within the agenda of a conference, either as a 1 to 2 hour team building activity or as a series of 15 minute energisers spread throughout the programme.

Sample Format

From a private workshop to a conference for hundreds of people, our body percussion event can be run in many different ways or included in one of our full-day team building programmes. To give you an idea of what is included please see our sample format below:

9.00 – Welcome
Conference hosts welcomes delegates and introduces our Body Percussionist.

9.15 – Intro Performance
Body Percussionist performs a musical piece without instruments!

9.20 – Demonstration and Tuition
Delegates are introduced to a series of hand claps, foot stamps and more.

9.30 – Performance
Led by our Body Percussionist the room is divided into sections, each section stamps or taps a different rhythm conducted from the front to create a thunderous symphony.

9.45 – Your conference begins.

This activity can be reduced to as little as 15 minute or extended to fill a half day.

Sample Format

This event can be run as part of a full-day programme, as a stand alone event, or incorporated into your away-day or conference. To give you an idea of how it runs please see our timings below:

14.00 – Briefing
Event manager briefs teams and hands out conundrums along with a bag of gold coins to each team.

14.15 – Solving Clues and Making Decisions
Teams attempt conundrums and decide how to use their budget.

14.30 – Collate Components
Catapult components are acquired with gold coins or correct conundrum solutions.

14.45 – Building Starts
Teams begin to build their catapults

15.15 – Testing!
Test firing takes place (in accordance with safety procedures).

15.30 – Prepare to Fire
Teams are arranged around the target area, with higher scoring targets furthest away.

15.40 – Fire!
All teams fire simultaneously, where two or more teams hit the same target neither scores. Teams repeatedly fire simultaneously with scores awarded after each round.

16.00 – Calculate Scores
Final scores are calculated while teams review their performance.

16.15 – Winners celebrate!

Sample Format

This event can be run at any time of day, all year round. Ideally we require a cabaret layout meeting room with additional floor space; although we have led Team Tasks in boardrooms, atriums, theatres and car parks!

Tasks can be as little as 15 minutes through to an hour. Typically we start with light hearted icebreakers and increase the level of challenge as time goes on, for example:

09.00 – Common Ground
This fast paced discussion exercise requires teams to identify a number of things that they have in common, within just 2 minutes. For example: all have blue eyes, all own an ABBA record, have all been to France.

09.30 – Balloon Tower
A challenge for small teams in which they must build the tallest possible, free-standing tower from a selection of balloons and a roll of Sellotape.

10.00 – Blocks Away
Starting with a handful of blocks each, participants are given details of the scores they can achieve by building towers of certain heights, before being asked to give estimates of their building capabilities. We then examine performance against targets and discuss what factors affect goal-setting and achievement in teams.

10.45 – Pyramid Challenge
This Team Task relies on communication and co-operation to operate a lever and pulley system, from up to eight separate control points, to achieve the team’s objective. An indoor or outdoor task which takes the team from frustration to elation.

11.30 – Lego Arch
Teams of 5 must build a floor-standing arch large enough to enable two team members to pass underneath. The task begins with a thirty minute planning phase during which the teams can refine their design and calculate their expected costs. Having submitted their estimated profit based on the number of bricks used and time spent building, the timed construction phase begins. On completion, profitability is compared and estimates and discrepancies discussed. Finally, each structure is put to the test as two members of each team attempt to crawl, slide or be dragged under their team’s arch.

12.15 – Group Juggling
This team exercise begins with small groups and just one bean bag per person, building to a point where the whole team form a circle, simultaneously juggling two bean bags each. Co-ordination, support and pin sharp timing are required to succeed at this challenge. It may take a little while but when it goes right the feelings of achievement are unforgettable.

12.30 – Letters Home
To conclude, we carry out an informal review based on a letter home. Each participant is given a template sheet which prompts them to answer questions such as:

“What contribution to this afternoon are you most proud of?”
“What do I regret doing/saying or not doing/saying?”
“In future I’d like to be more …….”
“I’d like to stop ………. and start ………”

These sheets are then sealed in envelopes and sent, one month later, to the participant’s home address to remind them of some of the day’s key learning points thus reinforcing the lessons learnt.

Sample Format

This event can be run at any time of day, indoors on a hard floor. If time is short a condensed version of the exercise can take less than 60 minutes, the example below shows the 3 hour option:

14.00 – Introduction and Video

14.10 – Warm Up Exercise
A warm up exercise gets participants used to handling dominoes whilst also exploring different peoples’ attitude to risk and the benefits of working in a team.

14.40 – Technique Development
While a video demonstrating 50 different domino stunts plays on a loop participants are encouraged to develop and perfect their own domino toppling tricks and techniques.

15.10 – Team Display
Teams now combine their talents to design a team display.

15.30 – Construction
Teams construct their displays in the designated area, taking care to connect with their neighbouring teams, thereby creating one giant domino toppling display.

16.15 – Break
Teams take a break while the final touches are put to the display.

16.30 – Testing!
The giant domino display is put to the test as the first falling domino stone sets off a chain reaction leading to thousands of coloured toppling dominos.

16.45 – Review
Teams review their element of the display, identifying how each individual contributed to the successful or otherwise finale.

17.00 – Close