The first quarter of the year found us quite busy with team building activities in Nashville. While we continue to work throughout the US and the rest of the world, let’s face it; Nashville team building and songwriting are a natural fit. Selling a musical program in Music City isn’t too hard, but delivering a great program is an ongoing challenge that I love and embrace. Every client we’ve led…
Denver Team Building
We opened 2015 with a great Denver Team Building event. IHS Automotive recently acquired Polk. This new team of leaders wanted an out-of-the-box program that would enable their recently formed unit to share quality time and better envision who they are. There are growing pains when one company acquires another. Our Denver team building program provided a wonderful setting for people from across the globe to mix, mingle, make music…
Music Team Building in Baltimore
Baltimore is in our event rotation. It’s a destination city with a wonderful downtown waterfront harbor area that attracts corporate meetings and conventions. I always enjoy the opportunity to lead our music team building Baltimore programs and to spend time in that great city. So I was excited when Sodexo asked us to work with their Offer Development team in November. Team Building Client Goals The Sodexo Offer Development group…
Music Team Building Indianapolis
Songwriter Rusty Tabor drove north from Nashville, I drove south from Chicago, and we met for our music team building program to work with eighty supply chain leaders from Cummins. arCapa, a business leadership consulting and coaching company based in Indianapolis brought us in as part of a day-long session with this corporate group from Cummins. The event was held at IvyTech Community College. They have a great facility with…
Music Team Building in Nashville
Talk about good press. Nashville’s been featured as the It City in 2014 in so many publications. And our team building events in Nashville have doubled this year. I like to brag about our worldwide footprint and how we travel the globe delivering our team building programs, but it’s been really nice to have so many opportunities this year to make music in Music City! We’ve recently led programs for…
Team Building Drumming In Chicago
It’s fun, it’s scary and it’s thrilling when we try something new that comes out better than expected. Our team building drumming in Chicago, for Boehringer Ingelheim at the Swissotel, was all of the above. Part of this client’s goals were to challenge everyone to try something new. But this team building drumming program had other important elements that made it unique. These elements make up what we call our…
Team Building in Washington DC
During the third week of March we covered a lot of musical territory with our team building programs. I was in London helping a client create songs about the work they do while Tony nominated songwriter, Lauren Lucas, led a team building Washington DC program for us. Along with our always in demand songwriter-facilitator Rusty Tabor, Lauren led the Marriott revenue management team through a fun large group session. Team…
September Musical Team Building Activities
I’m just gonna roll events from our September musical team building activities into one post. Because this was our busiest September and it might take me until next September to write a separate post about each event we’ve just facilitated. Part of what I sell is the power of story. Story and music = song. A powerful example of how a great identifying phrase evokes story and emotion is the…
Billy Kirsch Speaking at ASTD International Conference
Last year my good friend, David Hutchens, and I presented an innovative energizer at The ASTD International Conference and Exposition in Denver. It was a mash-up of David’s presentations around organizational storytelling and my music team building program. The underlying motivation for David and myself to do the program was our friendship. We thought it would be a good chance to hang out while doing some experimental speechifying! We were…
Smart Meetings Seattle Team Building
In the meetings and events industry, where fresh ideas are vital to creating successful programs, creativity needs to be paramount. So when I was invited to speak at the Smart Meetings Event in Seattle last week, I jumped at the chance. I knew I’d find a receptive audience, one that would resonate with my topic of Harnessing Your Creative Power. I don’t really offer traditional speaking presentations, as much as…
All The News That’s Fit To Print
I’ve always wanted to say that, all the news that’s fit to print. Of course I’m not printing on my blog. But I grew up with that New York Times catch phrase and I associate it with good quality written material. So this is the inaugural post to our news section. It’s a bit self-serving because this is the place where I’ll get to talk about the cool, funtastic team…