Corporate Entertainment Show with a Team Building Exercise

 

PART 1. INTERACTIVE CORPORATE ENTERTAINMENT

In the first segment, your attendees experience a highly interactive entertainment show as seen in the demo video on below. 
 
 
For a full description of every part of the corporate entertainment show, you can access it here: https://mentalistjesse.com/set-list
 
 

PART 2. TRANSITION

After your attendees experience magic and their thoughts being influenced, they find out that they are going to learn to influence thoughts themselves. It is explained that they will learn to use language that makes them more connected with other people and more persuasive. 
 
 

PART 3. TEAM BUILDING EXERCISE

Everyone in your group splits up into pairs. Each pair has one partner designated as "Partner A" and the other partner is "Partner B." Everyone discovers that they will be acting out the roles of two people who plan a vacation. In other words, they take turns making up responses in a conversation.
 
"Partner A" starts off by saying "Let's go on a vacation." This begins an impromptu conversation between each pair of partners.  Each partner is instructed to begin every response with, "Yes, and".  Throughout the exercises described above, everyone laughs because they're role playing the process of planning a vacation (making up responses), so it gets 100% audience participation and laughter. 
 
The team building exercise described above is repeated in a similar way. However, this time, there is one difference. This time, each attendee in the pair begins every response with "No, but". Again, this team building exercise generates 100% audience participation and laughter. 
 
 

PART 4. BRIEF CLOSING MESSAGE

Everyone is polled and asked who experienced more agreement with their partner when they started responses with "Yes, and". 


Everyone is polled and asked who experienced more agreement with their partner when they started responses with "No, but". 

It becomes instantly clear that starting responses with "Yes, and" created more agreement in their conversation. This gives your attendees a tool of language to walk away with forever, diplomatically communicating to maintain rapport in conversations where beliefs don't align. 
 

At the very least, the team building exercise gets everyone laughing, directly participating, and talking with each other as an icebreaker. However, better rapport/communication among employees in the workforce can be valued for other reasons related to collaboration/productivity. Better rapport/communication with clients is better for sales. 

 

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