The best way to illustrate how Quest adds that extra layer of excellence to your conference is to provide some working examples.

With them all, Quest was approached by clients who had already booked their conference, and wanted Quest to make the most of a 2-4 hour breakout team building session to help energise, invigorate and enthuse the delegates.

In all cases, one of the key requirements was to include the objectives of the conference in the breakout team building session.

Case Study One

Quest was approached by major international oil and gas company to assist them with their Retail Conference taking place in Berlin.

The breakout slot was two and a half hours in length, at the end of the first day of a two-day conference for 95 delegates.

The brief was that the team build should focus on: speed in decision making; simplifying complex issues; resilience & coping under stress and innovation in problem solving.

Quest offered three different options, and a version of TV Newscast called “Picture This its TV Newscast,” was chosen.

This involved the sub-teams not only preparing for and delivering a TV Newscast production, but also collaborating to paint giant back drops for other sub-teams against which the TV Newscast would be filmed

The activity exceeded all elements of the brief, and was the talking point for the remainder of the conference.  

Case Study Two

Quest was asked by the IT team at IMI to deliver a starter session for a two day conference for 15 delegates, with a theme of Leaders Being the Change.

Quest proposed a workshop session focusing on a Human Shield Exercise. This provided the opportunity for team members to start disclosing to their colleagues information about their family background; hobbies & interests and how friends and colleagues would describe them. That made a significant start to building trust, the foundation layer for a High Performing Team.

To reinforce that classroom learning Quest also proposed an experiential activity called Pyramid of Success, where a range of skills were practiced, including the importance of both competition & collaboration for successful team performance.

The session was just two and a half hours in duration, but gave the conference exactly the dynamic, positive and informative start that was required.

Case Study Three

When PA Consulting asked Quest to facilitate the great idea they’d had to get their senior team to cook their own team dinner following day two of their annual conference, we were very excited to be able to help.

Whilst Beaumont House was never going to allow 52 people to cook in their main hotel kitchen, from the get-go the Executive Chef and Conference Manager were helpfulness personified in finding alternatives.

Once they understood Quest’s experience in cooking-based team building they worked with us to build a pop-up kitchen in the meeting room, beside the one being used for the conference, and in total secrecy!

At 17:00 the folding doors opened, the astonished delegates were handed aprons & chefs hats; divided into teams and led through to their pop-up work stations where all the required ingredients and kit were laid out waiting.

For two hours they prepared dinner, whilst concurrently hotel staff transformed their conference room into a stunning restaurant.

A little wine helped and at 19:00 the team preparing the starters were ready to serve their colleagues. This was followed by the mains & puddings.

It was a super-charged, highly successful team activity, and a terrific start to a wonderful evening. As the conclusion to a conference it was unsurpassed!