by admin | Feb 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Thin Blue Line. It’s no joke. We have worked with the police a lot over the years. Several different areas and services, from video and audio training but most prominently interview training. During this time we have helped train detectives to give a better...
by admin | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’ve done book launches before and they are just about our favourite type of event. It is immersive and involved. We get first crack at creating the world that has sprung from the imagination of a published author! Long before any big screen directors might get...
by admin | Jun 6, 2018 | special events, Training, Uncategorized, work
This is not some blog about how we do team building characters on fun spy missions. Nope. More interesting than that – and more real. Every now and again we’ve been asked to do a job that is a little out of the ordinary. As opposed to a big showy...
by admin | May 1, 2018 | Training, work
We are in the process of finalising the elements of our Data Protection Compliance in line with the new General Data Protection Regulations which come into force from May the 25th 2018. It’s one of those common sense things that should have been legislated for a...
by admin | Mar 29, 2018 | Entertainment, special events, Uncategorized, work
Rosalind Parker plays an outraged Katharina in an excerpt from The taming of the Shrew at Somerset House last year for a private audience. Photo credit Christine Heymann We LOVE doing Shakespeare. When we say “doing” Shakespeare it makes it sound flippant...
by admin | Mar 14, 2018 | Entertainment, special events, Training, Uncategorized
This year Adhoc celebrates it’s 13th birthday! Predictable jokes about “unlucky thirteen” aside, we have now been providing actors for entertainment and training for 13 years! That’s no mean feat in the current business and economic climate. It...
by admin | Oct 11, 2017 | special events, Training, Uncategorized, work
Arena: (noun). A field of conflict, activity or endeavour. You might think it harsh, or even inappropriate, but Arena is the right metaphor for training. Instead of “Death by Powerpoint” – (not our phrase I hasten to add), training should be a...
by admin | Sep 22, 2017 | special events, Training, Uncategorized, work
More and more people are seeing the benefits of using actors to enhance and improve their training objectives these days. It makes sense: it’s an arena where people can try out new techniques and learn from mistakes in a way that they will remember and gives...
by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Entertainment, special events, Training, Uncategorized, work
We often hear people say about their workforce, “we believe in you”, or to their clients, “have faith in us”. We don’t use these phrases at all. We’ve let our work speak for itself for over ten years now, with clients who rebook our...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Entertainment, special events, Training, Uncategorized
It’s the time of year for us when the entertainment side of work overlaps slightly with the training and conference needs of businesses. Many companies have their kick off conferences between February and April to review the previous year, then plan ahead...