The Sandstone Team Building Blog

11:00AM, late July, central London.  The Hilton Hotel at Paddington Station to be precise.  Who would have thought that, just 2 hours later, this group of 30 people would have had – shall we say – interesting conversations with both Hotel Security folk and their Network Rail equivalents?  Certainly not the group members themselves at the start…

Vision Idol does that.  It gets people so focused, so involved, so enjoying themselves that little things like dressing up as a dominatrix – complete with whip – and flogging an (albeit rubber) chicken to (albeit thespian) death are all part of the activity.  Anyway, I guess that hotel security needed reassurance that the chicken wasn’t recently last seen in their kitchen (or, worse still, shortly to make its way into it!) and that the whip would not be used on other guests.  Then they were happy enough.  Network Rail were probably just curious to know why the pilot of Thunderbird 1 of International Rescue fame was carrying a Dalek on the up escalator.  Whether their concern was that International Rescue felt the need to visit their station or that a Dalek was in attendance was unclear.  Still, they seemed happy enough at the end.  As were plenty of open-mouthed passengers on the down escalator!

If none of that makes sense, you’ve clearly never attended – and indeed never seen any photos from -  a Vision Idol event.  Tremendous fun is always had by all.  Equally importantly, the photographic evidence is always a great reminder of the conference theme for the day and the team development gained.

A great event populated by fantastic people from a new client.  I think even the chicken enjoyed it.

Alan