It has long been a belief of the conference and event industry that to properly engage an audience from start to finish, ice breakers and other sessions of team building activities are essential. They help to provide definition between sessions and they are an opportunity for people to relax in the middle of what can be intense periods of concentration.
From a purely logistical point of view, the best seating arrangement to listen to key-note speakers and observe presentations for large audiences - common to such events - is, without doubt, theatre style. This format produces an environment with universally good views of the stage, and a natural focus is created, without the need to direct an audience's attention.
However, placing large amounts of people in rows and rows of tightly packed seats can present problems in itself. All of a sudden, any sort of movement whatsoever, becomes very difficult, and space, both per person and in general becomes quite scarce. Most team building activities therefore become difficult if not impossible to do and this is where a great event from Eventus Training and Events comes in!
For a simple but effective exercise, why not try Marble Run. Marble run will see each person is provided with a length of pipe or gutter. Many different profiles and sizes are used, and the aim of the challenge is to form pipelines along which marbles can run. The easiest pipelines to form run along rows however column pipelines can also be attempted or row pipelines can be combined together - it all depends on the time available.
The Marble Run is a great Energiser, and not only is it active and fun but the pipelines created are symbolic of everyone contributing and linking together to do a great job. This message is easy to link in to most conference themes, including the most common of all - working together/'one team'.
The flexibility of this activity is one of its prolific strengths - initially participants find it tricky to get the marble to run smoothly without holdups; however they soon become accomplished with practice. Once they become confident in what they are doing, an increased level of complexity can be introduced, and teams have an even harder proposition to conquer. Some teams exchange pipe/gutter between team members to make the connections easy to manage (for example small to large is easy, whilst large to small is much harder to get right). The marbles must finish in tin buckets - and when they arrive they deliver a satisfying "clunk". The activity can be concluded with a race between teams, and the awarding of a prize, or recognition for the top performing pipeline team.
In essence, The Marble Run Conference Energiser from Eventus is a fun, engaging, and timely activity, suitable for groups in theatre style seating - and it even delivers the important learning points about teamwork and your conference themes! Why not book it now!
From a purely logistical point of view, the best seating arrangement to listen to key-note speakers and observe presentations for large audiences - common to such events - is, without doubt, theatre style. This format produces an environment with universally good views of the stage, and a natural focus is created, without the need to direct an audience's attention.
However, placing large amounts of people in rows and rows of tightly packed seats can present problems in itself. All of a sudden, any sort of movement whatsoever, becomes very difficult, and space, both per person and in general becomes quite scarce. Most team building activities therefore become difficult if not impossible to do and this is where a great event from Eventus Training and Events comes in!
For a simple but effective exercise, why not try Marble Run. Marble run will see each person is provided with a length of pipe or gutter. Many different profiles and sizes are used, and the aim of the challenge is to form pipelines along which marbles can run. The easiest pipelines to form run along rows however column pipelines can also be attempted or row pipelines can be combined together - it all depends on the time available.
The Marble Run is a great Energiser, and not only is it active and fun but the pipelines created are symbolic of everyone contributing and linking together to do a great job. This message is easy to link in to most conference themes, including the most common of all - working together/'one team'.
The flexibility of this activity is one of its prolific strengths - initially participants find it tricky to get the marble to run smoothly without holdups; however they soon become accomplished with practice. Once they become confident in what they are doing, an increased level of complexity can be introduced, and teams have an even harder proposition to conquer. Some teams exchange pipe/gutter between team members to make the connections easy to manage (for example small to large is easy, whilst large to small is much harder to get right). The marbles must finish in tin buckets - and when they arrive they deliver a satisfying "clunk". The activity can be concluded with a race between teams, and the awarding of a prize, or recognition for the top performing pipeline team.
In essence, The Marble Run Conference Energiser from Eventus is a fun, engaging, and timely activity, suitable for groups in theatre style seating - and it even delivers the important learning points about teamwork and your conference themes! Why not book it now!
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