International meetings offer a unique challenge. Finding a venue that is geographically accessible, planning an agenda appropriate to a multi-lingual, multi-cultural audience, and sourcing additional resources such as simultaneous translation are all critical to your success.
Ignite has a wealth of experience in such meetings and understands the complexities of achieving your desired results with an international audience.
A client running an international sales meeting wanted to demonstrate "the power of the team" through an interactive session - but was struggling to overcome the language barrier.
Most of the activities they considered required verbal or written communication - not easy when their delegates had a total of 17 first languages. Ignite recommended a musical event to achieve the desired objective.
Ignite sourced a third party supplier to run the session, which involved all delegates learning to play a percussion instrument. The session leader divided the group into sections, taught them to play their instruments, worked with each section individually, and brought the sections together as one in a heart-thumping finale - all achieved without a single word being spoken.
Delegates rated the session as the best of the meeting and commented that they were inspired by how much they could achieve by working together.