Posts for tag: conference organising

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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Top 6 Conference Cringers and One Sure Way to Avoid Embarrassment

We’ve been hosting and delivering conferences since the 1990s. Thankfully the stories below, whilst all true, didn’t happen on our watch. They do however serve to remind us of the importance of impeccable planning and expecting the unexpected.

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8 Different Ways to Run Your Next Team Day

Team Days come in various shapes and sizes, but it’s important to select the right approach for your team and budget. Here are 8 different approaches to consider.
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Ingredients of a Great Team Away Day

Finding time to get the whole team out of the office isn’t easy but the benefits justify the effort:
It provides the leader with an opportunity to say thank you, share the vision and set goals
It enables team members to get to know and understand one another better
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Escape Rooms

Escape rooms are now found in cities across the world. They make a great activity for a small group of friends but their size and location limits the appeal for many corporate groups.
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Tips for Successful Conference Q & A

Conference Question and Answer slots can go one of two ways, there’s either deathly silence or they become adversarial battles between the audience and top brass.

Here are some tips to manage the discussion and make it a pleasant and productive session for all concerned:…

Top 10 Conference Cock-ups

After 20 years of supporting conferences, we’ve heard some tales that will send shivers up a conference organiser’s spine. Here are a few we can share – there are several more that we can’t.

1. Theme
If an event has the word ‘annual’ in the title there’s a high chance it shouldn’t be happening at all. …

Gold Medallist TV Presenter Also Hosts Conferences

In this blog we’d like to introduce you to our good friend, Gold Medallist and Paralympic TV presenter Giles Long.

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The Big Picture – Communicating Corporate Values

Finding genuinely effective ways to communicate change in a business can be a challenge. Emails get deleted, newsletters get recycled and live presentations are easily forgotten.

With this conundrum in mind Foster’s Group approached Fresh Tracks to come up with a team activity that would bring to life the launch of their new company identity – Treasury Wine Estates. The strategic decision to separate the Foster’s beer and wine business marked a major change not just in name but also in culture, as the company transforms from a general drinks business to a wine specialist.

As with any change there was a degree of cynicism ahead of the conference, especially toward some of the new values and language being used.

Fresh Tracks responded by creating a challenge…

Creating Captivating Conferences

I expect we have all at one time or another sat in a conference feeling bored. As our attention drifts from the indistinct slides and the speaker’s monotone soliloquy to the comfort or otherwise of our seat.

We begin to ponder whether the vast sums spent on such events will generate a worthwhile return. All too often expense and time come before imagination and courage. By this we mean that a little time spent thinking creatively about how your event will be sure to engage, inspire and motivate your audience will not only save money but, more importantly, extinguish boredom….