Event programs – get creative with the boring – Breeze Bites

As an event planner deciding on the event program for 500 hundred delegates is no easy task. It’s the scheduling of activities from the start of the event to its conclusion. For a conference, the program outlines the times of lectures and workshops, what topics are offered and who is presenting. If the event is an annual awards dinner, the program sets out what time people should arrive, what time each course will be served and the times that each award ceremony will take place.

In order to spice it up a bit it has to be a mix of designing something new and exciting for each delegate, something that suits the culture of their organisation and meets their objectives. In this blog I want to explore and add some top corporate team building event program ideas to get your delegates rearing to go instead of death by powerpoint with slide after slide of quotes, graphs and objectives. 

You want to inform and energise your employees and want them to actually look forward to your event. Getting your employees to actually listen and engaged with the material and each other and having them go away with a clear feeling of ‘this is what we have to do this year to be successful’. This is not impossible to achieve and by creating fun, team building intervals can make all the difference.

In the place of a standard sitting and listening format as most conferences go, the use of a team building activity can transform the atmosphere getting people active and communicating, a simple challenge of completing a task can unify and motivate. It doesn’t have to comprise the entire event, short team activities can be used to break up sessions, reinvigorating delegates and varying their experience.

Here are a few creative experiences coming out of the UK that are sure to engergise and invigorate an otherwise ho hum standard corporate event.

1. Make a million: Make-a-million is a fast and furious competitive team building event in which teams race to be the first to produce $1,000,000 in counterfeit banknotes.
2. Summit or Bust: Summit or Bust is the perfect Everest team building activity and a brilliant conference energiser suitable for even the largest groups. Lasting for 30 to 90 minutes and table-based, Summit or Bust is for those situations when space or time is limited.
3. Urban Pursuit: Excite and engage your participants by turning a city or area around your conference venue into a giant game board. Part of the new Urban Gaming suite, Urban Pursuit uses the latest in tablet technology.

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