Create A Custom Event!
Are You Interested in Creating A Custom Event to Meet Your Goals? Over 30% of Drum Cafe events are significantly customized to meet specific goals of customers, whether it's a product launch, change management, mergers, team building .. communications etc, we can help you develop your idea and ensure you succeed! Simply fill out a custom event worksheet and one of our senior event management consultants will get back to you, and chances are, if we're not a good fit, we can reccomend some alternatives.
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Some Great Custom Events For People & Team Development:
Dell Corp:
EXCEL Program - Executive Development Program – 7 events contracted to accent 5-day intensive for Directors and VP’s gaining greater span of control.
“We engaged The Drum Café for a Dell executive development program to support our globalization theme, raise cultural awareness, and help build peer networks. We got more than we asked for as The Drum Café motivated and inspired our management team in a way that was not only fun and entertaining, but relevant. Their understanding of our business objectives resulted in a customized program that supported and enhanced the more traditional elements of the week’s agenda. Thank you for a great experience! We look forward to another opportunity to work together!”
-Laura Guenther, Director, Global Learning & Development, Round Rock, TX
Conoco-Phillips:
Engagement Excellence Program – 10 programs contracted thru 2006. 20 to come in 2007.
Leadership development program for first-line and supervisory managers, typically in their first management role.
Program focused on developing leadership talents that appeal to a broader, more universal population or non-traditional means of leading to meet today’s fast-changing landscape
Coordinator: Beth Sheets, Director, Organizational Development, Bartlesville, OK
Southwest Airlines:
MIT (Manager in Training) Program – Featured in Jan 2006 SPIRIT onboard magazine. Bi-annual program for select managers targeted for movement within the company.
- The Drum Café used experientially to embody and promulgate leaders as ambassadors of the Southwest culture, their unique asset.
- The Drum Café also used to kickoff the 2006 “Culture Committee” annual meeting led by SWA President Colleen Barrett for cultural ambassadors of the company organization-wide.
“Wow! The Drum Cafe certainly exceeded all expectations at our recent Camp Culture event; l can assuredly say that WOW is the impression your TEAM left on our Employees. [You] really hit the mark with your presentation. [The] facilitation skills combined both learning and FUN and brought the purpose of the...event full circle. It is our responsibility as Leaders at Southwest Airlines to perpetuate our Culture and keep the SPIRIT alive and well. I feel as though with your team’s help we have successfully driven that point home with the 2005 MIT Level II Participants."
Cheryl Hughey, Director, People and Leadership Development Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX
Training & Development Organizations:
Houston OD Network:
Monthly Program Meeting, December 2005 – Sponsored by Reesa Thorne, Change Agent for Shell Oil Downstream after success with an internal program using The Drum Café for 150 of the CIO’s IT managers from around the globe.
“People were buzzing on Thursday morning about the Drum Cafe. They loved it. On the final evaluations, it was highlighted as one of the best things about the conference. One of the leaders opened his presentation highlighting his take-aways, and how well together we performed. One woman came up to me and asked if I was "cueing" you in your earpiece…. She used the words "astonishing" when she described the whole process. I hope to work with you again. It was a delight!”
-Kathie Magness, Shell Oil Company, Training & Development
ASTD, San Antonio Chapter:
Annual Symposium 2004 – Kickoff day-long symposium as ice-breaker and introduce new ways of demonstrating leadership development using the universal languages of music and rhythm.
“The Drum Cafe Leadership program was one of the most insightful and meaningful training experiences I've had in years, and the learnings continue to pop into my mind over and over again. The attendees of this year's conference talked about the impact of your program all day long!"
-Linda Farley, Chapter President and Owner of Farley Training
SAHRMA, San Antonio HR Mgmt Assoc:
Annual Conference 2006 – Ended the one-day conference with a demonstration of The Drum Café’s experiential slant on talent development and management. Nearly 300 in attendance. Everyone receives a drum and makes music!
“Our annual HR symposium was a big success and The Drum Cafe was a major contributor. Ending it with your group worked wonderfully. You all are to be congratulated for excellent work, well thought-out approach to teamwork and most of all, a fun way to go about it. Many attendees told me they would like to contact you concerning large events for their companies. We are still working on the evaluations but I believe yours had the highest number of “Very Good” marks. Thanks again! It really is an impressive production!"
-Peg Callahan, co-Chair, Univ of Texas San Antonio
AHRMA, Austin HR Management Association
Annual Conference 2005 – Just after lunch, the Drum Café energized the patrons and demonstrated how this unique application of music and how it relates to teamwork can be taken back to the workplace
“Just wanted to pass along the sincere thanks to you and your team for putting on a superb program last week at ASTD. We actually heard one of the participants comment that you guys made the whole day complete and was an excellent way to start the day off! "
