Why Your Event Needs a Keynote Speaker (And How to Find the Right One)

If you organize corporate or collegiate events, chances are you’ve hired keynote speakers and understand their importance. Keynote speakers typically kick off events and are vital in setting the tone. A competent keynote speaker will bring energy, enthusiasm, and entertainment. A great one delivers substance as well as storytelling and humor—bringing the steak, not just […]

Three Categories of Team Building Programs for New Employee Orientation

Team building plays a critical role in the new employee onboarding process. It’s as essential as getting set up with a company email account or watching your company’s safety videos—and does even more to get new employees productive quickly. Part 1 of this series detailed why team building is crucial in new employee orientation. It […]

How to Teach Collaboration Through Competition

Most team building activities are competitive—and for good reasons. Competition is fun, it’s engaging, and it helps set clear goals for the exercise. And business itself is, of course, a constant competition for the attention, loyalty, and dollars of clients and customers. But success within an organization frequently relies more on collaboration than competition. People […]

The Four Roles of an Effective Team Building Facilitator

An impactful and memorable team building event starts with effective facilitation. Having an experienced, engaging facilitator is vital to creating an experience that teaches leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills to participants while also being fun and engaging. Why is that person called a “facilitator” instead of something else, like a team building leader, organizer, or […]

Customization

The past 16 months have been both challenging and rewarding for our company. The pandemic posed a lot of new and unique challenges to businesses everywhere, and the events industry especially. So, Best Corporate Events had to come up with new and unique solutions to address those challenges, custom tailoring our efforts to the situation […]

Innovation

Challenging times are the perfect time to innovate. Not only do challenges present reasons to innovate, creating innovative solutions can put a silver lining on a difficult situation and help launch an even more successful future. That’s how innovation helped Best Corporate Events. During the pandemic, we had to innovate to adapt to the rapid […]

Reinvention

The last 16 months have been a rollercoaster for everyone in the event industry – Best Corporate Events included. Despite the many challenges this time has presented, we have weathered the storm and come out on the other side better than ever. We have also learned a lot from this unusual year – with three […]

What is a Hybrid Event?

As virus concerns subside and economies reopen, the term “hybrid” is increasingly being heard in the world of corporate team building and beyond. It’s clear that hybrid will play an important role for events from now on, but it is hard for some to define what exactly the term means, or what a hybrid event […]