Conference Breakout Sessions

RST Consulting offers a variety of energisers and team development sessions that add value to your training programme or conference.

Teams of 8 to 1000+ can be accommodated with a variety of exciting and innovative activities that can be selected to help focus a conference or training programme, bring a group of delegates back to life after the lunch break, or provide an opportunity to explore practical applications of effective teamwork.

RST Consulting Breakout Sessions are available across the UK and start from only £10.00pp for a 1 hour session.

Activities available for Conference and Training Breakout Sessions include:

Activity Max No. Description Time (incl. Review) Outcomes Cost pp (from) Mexican Railway 2000 Using only tightly rolled rods of recycled newspaper and cable ties, your team will create an interlinked rollercoaster which must run around the whole room.  The delegates create an aerial ‘railway track’ which they control by holding one of the track ‘sleepers’.  Every individual will be responsible for his or her own section of the track.  Using the principle of the ‘Mexican Wave’, the object is moved around the track.  <1 hour TW, PS, COM,COL £40.00 Team Work of Art / Big Picture (C) 300 Each team is given the task of painting a section of a complete image, and recreate an image up to 40 times the size of the original.  The squares created by each team will fit with all of the other squares to form a complete image. 1-2 hours TW, L, COM, D, ITW, PS, P, Pas £40.00 Boomwhackers 2000 Boomwhackers are extruded plastic tubes, tuned to a pentatonic scale, each playing a different note. When they are struck against the delegates hand, they create sounds and rhythms. As a group together, they overlap to form soundscapes. Vibrant and noisy, moulds into any space. < 1hour (Mod)Phys, Col £40.00 Hells Bells 350 Hells bells is a common goal activity, the group receive one challenge which they must complete together.  There are a range of different activities (construction, creative, cerebral etc ...) which means that everyone finds their area of 'best fit'.  In allocating out the roles each person has their opportunity to contribute and without the full commitment of the team, the challenge would not be possible.  This is our most popular indoor team building activity (and deservedly so). <3 ½ hours Phys, TW, L, P, PS, D, Col £40.00 Chequered Flag 300 Chequered Flag is a fun and competitive event.  Teams must design, construct and race their own pedal powered kart.  Sponsorship pitches must be presented in order to earn valuable extra funds for your team.  The concept is easy to grasp and teams get working quickly on their design.  Some members of the group will focus their efforts on the sponsorship pitch, others on the strategy of the race, and other team members will design and construct the kart to ensure it meets the criteria set.  Chequered Flag works well as a break out to a conference.  It’s an opportunity for the group to ‘let their hair down’ and have some fun and fresh air < 1 day Phys, TW, L, P, D, Com, Competitive £40.00 Italian Job 100 This reward event has a huge WOW factor.  As teams leave their conference room waiting in the car park is a line of fully branded minis!  Each person is allocated to drive a mini and off they whiz on a magical mystery tour to collect as much gold as possible.  The session is competitive and within the itinerary groups rendezvous at certain locations to engage in head to head challenges.  The Italian Job event will allow the group to work with a small number of their colleagues and share their stories with other members of the team at dinner. < 1 day Phys, TW, L, P, PS, D, Com, Competitive £150.00 Quest for Kudos 300 Within this activity groups are split into Tribes (rather than teams) which immediately creates a sense of competition.  Each Tribe must vie for power of the land of Kudos by completing challenges and earning resources.  These resources allow the purchase of land which can be developed into villages, barracks, barracks with armies and forts – each stage developing your power on the ‘board’.  The challenges vary from creative to physical to cerebral ensuring that a wide range of skills are required within each tribe.  Quest for Kudos is great for networking as tribes compete head to head on some challenges and there is constant ‘banter’ between each group at the ‘board’ where the main game play occurs. < 1 day Phys, TW, L, P, PS, D, Com, Competitive £75.00 Da Vinci Code 350 Visually stunning, The Da Vinci Code challenge has been designed to work for any audience.  You don’t need to have read the book or seen the film to get excited about this adventure.  The concept takes from the novel, excitement, intrigue and makes you work for every piece of information you need – nothing is handed to you on a plate.  The museum curator has been murdered and you need to work out, from a list of key suspects, who the culprit is.  To do this you are taken around a number of museum artefacts.  To the untrained eye they look like beautiful sculptures and works of art, though to the participants trained eye, they tell stories and reveal information which will help them piece together the picture to crack the Da Vinci Code and decipher who the murderer is. < 6 hours TW, PS, COM, D, Competitive £75.00 Beat The Clock 500 This is a competitive, fast paced, frantic action packed game of strategy, time and people management. Bursting with a staggering 101 original games (each with 3 levels of difficulty), Beat The Clock engages every single team member. A real diverse mix of creative, physical, technical, mental, general knowledge, sound-smell-touch and vision games ensure that everybody has enough to do. The groups will become engaged and focused on the completion and competitive element of the activity and will get everybody discussing and attempting the various tasks. < 2 hours Phys, Pas, TW, L, PS, P, D, Competitive £40.00 Circulation Wars 12+ Circulation Wars  is a game based on city trading which will create real energy with the audience.  Teams must be successful in trading commodities but also in constructing a giant tower. There is a role for everyone which means that the whole team can become engaged in the same activity.  Each person will find their own 'niche' and teams who allocate roles and teams who have a good mix of skills in their group will traditionally do well. < 2 hours TW, L, C, P, COL £40.00 Dragons Den 8+ Groups must produce ideas which will further the effectiveness of their business. Themes or conference messages can be used as a spring board to generate ideas for business development. These ideas can then be ‘pitched’ either to the group or to a panel of senior management. In the past the winning groups have had their idea developed into policy. < 2 hours L, P, C, D £40.00 Scrapheap Challenge 600 This event promotes both practical and creative thinking from the group.  Teams are set the challenge of designing their very own airship to be raced at the end of the session.  Because it's quite likely that no-one has designed an airship before, everyone is at the same level.  Each team has a blue peter pack full of materials to help them with their task.  Because the challenge is refreshing, teams really have a laugh coming up with futuristic designs that they think will beat their competitors.  < 2 hours TW, L, PS, C, P, Competitive £40.00 Archery 48 Recurve bows and FITA targets are provided, along with instruction, to allow your team to learn and develop their skills at Going for Gold.  This activity is available as an energiser, with small groups taking part throughout a full day. ½  – 2 hours Phy £35.00pp Pillars of Wisdom 5 A logic puzzle that requires quick thinking and effective management of the group if the task is to be completed in the time available. 45 mins TW, L, PS, C, Phy £10.00pp Blind Geometry 12 Group choose a leader [optional] who directs the rest of the team (blindfolded) to position rope in specified geometric patterns.  45 mins TW, L, PS, C, P, Phy £10.00pp Gumball Rally 12 Working together, the ball bearing must travel the length of a course and ring a bell.  Requires excellent communication, quick thinking, listening and planning skills. 45 mins TW, P, PS, L, C, Phy £10.00pp Flying Saucer 8 Negotiate your way through obstacles, keeping the Flying Saucer level to avoid be sucked back through the worm-hole and having to start again.  45 mins TW, P, PS, L, C, Phy £15.00pp Shepherd & Sheep 12 Gather your group (who are blindfolded & standing all over a field) and place them in the pen, without using verbal communication.  45 mins TW, C, L, P, Phy £15.00pp Plug the Pipe 10 The information you require is at the wrong end of a tube.  Fortunately it floats!  1 hour TW, P, PS, D, L, Phy £15.00pp Farmers 12 A verbal exercise of logic and deduction.  1 hour TW, L, PS, C, Pas, D £10.00pp Elevation 8 Gain height with limited equipment and ingenuity from your team. 1 hour TW, PS, D, C, Phy £20.00pp Spider’s Web 12 The group pass through a ‘spider’s web’ without touching the web.  1 hour TW, L, PS, P, C, Phy £20.00pp Boxes & Planks 12 Cross the chasm with your team and two short planks! 1 hour TW, L, PS, C, D, P, Phy £20.00pp Number Puzzle 12 Reorganise the group into order (within constraints) without verbal communication (plus with 3 groups members blindfolded).  1 hour TW, PS, L, C, Pas £15.00pp Digital Display 12 Everyone has a task, so looking after yourself first is tempting, and personal achievement satisfying, but what if your success prevents others (and therefore the team) from completing their task? Working with others is one thing, but undoing your own work to help someone else may be a different matter. 1-2 hours TW, ITW, P, PS, C, ModPhy £25.00pp Big Picture 300 Each team is given the task of painting a section of a complete image, and recreate an image up to 40 times the size of the original.  The squares created by each team will fit with all of the other squares to form a complete image – The Big Picture© 1-2 hours TW, L, C, D, ITW, PS, P, Pas £25.00pp Skyscraper 300 Each team is given the task of constructing one section of a tower made from balloons.  The aim is to build the largest tower possible in the time given. 1-2 hours TW, L, C, D, ITW, PS, P, ModPhy £25.00pp Shelving 12 A two stage exercise requiring the team to problem solve, and then develop a process for solving the same problem in a short timeframe. 1 ½ hours TW, P, PS, L, D, C, ModPhy £25.00pp Transport 14 Two teams, working in different locations, have to work together to build an articulated truck and two skips. Excellent for understanding the overall objective and constraints, planning, teams working on related tasks in different locations & communicating effectively. 1 ½ hours P, ITW, TW, C, D, PS, Pas £25.00pp Gumball Rally 2 300 Each team is given the task of constructing one section of track, which forms part of a complete track, which a vehicle will be required to travel down at the end of the session. 1 ½ hours TW, L, C, D, ITW, PS, P, ModPhy £25.00pp Trailer 12 The workers have all the materials and information to complete the task; they just need to be 'pointed in the right direction'. Why do the managers interfere and the workers acquiesce? Old attitudes like "managers use their heads, workers their hands" die hard. 1½ - 2 hours TW, P, PS, C, D, ITW, ModPhy £25.00pp The Frame 12 Two halves of one team with different parts of the same task are separated by: a door, the knowledge that one team cannot divulge all its information, and different work loads. Pressure and frustration build as effective communications diminish. If only people could step back and think... 1½ - 2½ hours PS, C, TW, ITW, D, L, ModPhy £25.00pp Rectangle 12 The task is straightforward (although people may see it differently). The problem is that to succeed everyone who is involved must work together, keep up to date with progress, offer ideas clearly and concisely, listen and respond positively to others'. 1½ - 2½ hours, TW, L, C, PS, ModPhy £25.00pp Tower 12 Inter-team co-operation seems to be the name of the game, but there are problems: teams cannot progress together. No matter how hard teams try one must win unless they settle for mediocrity. Added to this there is always scope for double dealing after deals have been made... 2 - 3 hours ITW, TW, PS, P, L, C, ModPhy £25.00pp Hoist 12 The task is to win a competition but members of another team must build your product in your absence. Excellent for applied team skills, instructing others effectively, communications, understanding priorities, keeping the overall objective in mind, task ownership. 2-4 hours ITW, TW, P, PS, C, ModPhy £25.00pp Over the Bridge 15 Making a bridge and a vehicle is relatively easy. Establishing and meeting the customer's specification is a different matter. A two-part activity: part one introduces the concepts; part two provides opportunities to change behaviour.  2½ - 4 hours TW, L, C, D, PS, CO, CF, ModPhy £30.00pp         Energisers 300+ A wide range of physical and passive energisers are available for all conferences and training programmes.  Contact us to discuss the aims of the session, the venue and the number of delegates.  From Juggling to Human Bingo, we can get your team going again! 5min – 4 hours Varies £10.00 to £25.00pp