Category: Meeting Hacks

Supermarket Icebreaker - Starfish Taylor

Supermarket Icebreaker: Blending Products with Personalities

We’ve done numerous workshops lately focusing on improving Customer Experience and we believe this supermarket icebreaker is a great one for a customer focus. It starts with the simple question, “what product are you?” This enables everyone to start immediately with something personal – one of our three pillars of good icebreakers – and to share a little of themselves with their colleagues. Our objective here is to oust the old mentality of meetings and agendas and transform the way others interact with each other. Jump here to learn more about our three pillars. Read More

Your Old Agenda

Throw Away Your Old Agenda!

Your Old Agenda

Be brave, say goodbye to the bullet points! Meeting agendas aren’t meeting notes, they should be a map of the process to reach your goal. Expose your attendees to the unknown, your attendee’s experience should create lasting—and positive—memories and deeper learning. A Starfish Taylor agenda looks like this…

Your Old Agenda

A Starfish Taylor agenda

A great agenda is the start of a great meeting, the right pathway will make your meetings – efficient – get stuff done! positive and fun – people will look forward to the next meeting, participative – everyone contributes equally, avoid anyone ‘zoning out’! open – people say what they really think, creative – push the thinking beyond the usual and into new territory.

Why not let us give your agenda a free overhaul, click here to see how we can change the tone of your meeting.

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Event for businesses around the world

Death by Powerpoint

With 2017 approaching fast it’s time to start planning those budget meetings for next year. Make next year different, don’t opt for the usual ‘Death by Powerpoint’ meeting; be bold, engage with your participants, make it fun and relevant but most of all effective; let us draw your meeting. Read More

The Human Face of Big Data

Big Data Icebreaker

We were recently tasked with facilitating and designing a workshop around the topic of Digital Transformation. What will the digital, hyper-interconnected world look like in the coming years? How will we benefit from all the information that is being captured and recorded? What are the key first steps we need to be taking now — and in which direction? Read More

Meeting Hacks: Icebreakers

The Undeniable Truth about Icebreakers.

Are you ready for an icebreaker?

Yeah, we thought so.

Icebreakers suck!

But what if…they didn’t? What if you’ve just been breaking the ice wrong all these years? Quite frankly, if we never have to guess which of 3 “facts” is a lie, or which playing card is glued to our forehead without a well-manned, open bar within arms reach, it will be too soon. There must be a better way. Read More

Innovation Workshops

Innovation Workshops – Five Ted Talks We Like

When a customer asks us to design an event which we feel requires an element of Innovation from participants, we sometimes use our Ted Talk Module. Read More