Tag: actor
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Undercover Actors!
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 performance, like people often want,…
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Step into the Arena
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 living, exciting learning process that gives the trainee an unprecedented view of techniques and methods…
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Actors in Immersive Training.
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 confidence in a real situation. What is the actors…
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100% confidence
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 services repeatedly. Many of the same actors being loyal, steadfast performers…
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Customer service
It’s all about customer service. We strive to always get the customers key messages across, whether that’s in an entertainment forum or training in some way, THE most important thing is that what the client is paying for is the best it can be. We’ve said it before but it’s worth mentioning again that our…
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He Stoops to Scrum!
It’s all about rugby this weekend! One of our actors, Nathan Morris was portraying the character of a young Adrian Stoop for the 150th anniversary of the inception of the Harlequins Rugby club! Adrian Stoop is one of their most lauded players, first appearing for the team in 1905 and is widely credited with revolutionising the game…
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The time Scoop…
“We have to unlock the TimeScoop”. I nod assent and lurch off in the direction of the history wing of Adhoc Towers. I am always scared of using the TimeScoop but it has been such a useful tool for so many jobs. Besides, the target – a Mr Henry Sherwin – seems quite blasé about the…
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Mission…accomplished.
Late morning at Adhoc Towers. I’m just thinking about some kind of lunch when the phone rings. “Good morning, Adhoc Actors”, I chirp breezily. “Hi, just how ad-hoc are you”? The voice at the other end of the phone was young, female, with some humour and, I sensed, a genuine enquiry. “Pretty much what we…
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Being useful
We’re having a valuable week. Training police investigators. Getting people to try new things in an arena they can happily learn from any mistakes in is a task in itself: people don’t want to make mistakes, they naturally want to get it right first time. When they let go of that inhibition though, we see…
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Literary Dinosaurs!
So we were asked to be part of London Book fair at Olympia recently and this is the result! Fresh from our successful launch for Penguin/Puffin books we were asked if we could bring a character to life from a book called “Supersaurs”, a fictional romp in Victorian times involving factory “farmed” dinosaurs. Here is…