Breaking News
An immersive and challenging activity that pushes delegates right to the edge of their comfort zone, where they'll work as a team to think big about their collective futures and the future of their organisation.
How will the session run?
With a short time scale and an open brief that fits your event objectives, participants will need to produce a news report based 12 months in the future. The report will reflect on the successes they’ve collectively achieved, and how they brought them to fruition.
- Instructions & equipment provided. Hire of recording equipment billed separately.
- Delegates will need to storyboard, write, plan, direct, shoot, and edit the news report in the allocated time with the equipment provided. On average 60 minutes is adequate time to complete task.
- Suitable for small – medium size events.
- At the end of the session, all videos will be played to the entire group.
What will your team take away?
This activity forces teams to set tangible stretch goals that they commit to on film, plan for implementation and identify what the key challenges might be.
- Builds ambition and appetite for personal and professional growth.
- Enables a growth in confidence.
- A sense of achievement when the video is produced and played back.
- The videos make wonderful follow up communications collateral for after the event to keep the learning alive.
How will your team feel?
The Breaking News programme will give you an insight into how creative your team can be, how their ambition grows, how much fun they have, and how good the videos are on completion.
This programme is perfect for aligning company vision, breaking down silos and giving participants an opportunity to loosen up and have some fun together.
Time to Give Back
At Lightbulb Teams, all our programmes have a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) element. When an organisation invests in the Breaking News activity to run with their team, they also sponsor a digital media kit that is donated in their business’ name to a local school of choice to support with educational video projects.
This sponsored kit gives children the opportunity to use digital equipment as a form of communication, to story tell and develop their creative abilities for the purposes of building skills for the future.
Why Breaking News?
Lights, Camera, Action! Breaking News is the perfect way to fast track your teams’ ability to laser focus on their future. In a dynamic experience like no other, they’ll work together to create a live TV news report based 12-months in the future that shows where they’ll be this time next year, and the exact steps they’ll need to take to get there.
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Behind the Scenes of Breaking News
Stepping outside of your comfort zone has never been more fun. Check out some of our Breaking News team-builds below!
Frequently Asked Questions
Breaking News questions
We encourage each team to have access to a smartphone for capturing content as part of the activity.
On the day we will provide an introduction the programme, microphones for teams to speak with, props for delegates to get creative and our expertise to piece every team’s video together for the ‘big reveal’.
Breaking News sessions can vary depending on your event schedule, though we typically recommend 60-120 minutes. We recommend allocating enough time for teams to first plan and storyboard their content before capturing and watching their reports back during the ‘big reveal’.
Based on your audience size, we will recommend a suggested time for the session.
Not at all – our team will advise on the best way to capture content before teams get started, and our team will stitch the videos together for the end reveal.
If you would like to add a competitive edge to the Breaking News session, we can include judging, audience voting or prizes – but the true outcome of Breaking News is that all teams will benefit from a clear vision and action plan for their future ambition, and meaningful accountability.
A school of your choice! Let us know your preference, and we will coordinate the donation of a digital media kit on your company’s behalf. You and your team can even join us on-site at the school for the handover and to get a picture.
Team-build questions
Lightbulb Teams is a private limited company registered in the United Kingdom. We founded the business to create immersive corporate experiences where your team can get together, have fun, learn, challenge themselves, and make a very real and measurable impact on society and the world at large.
We work alongside countless charities across the world that are the recipients and the beneficiaries of our team-building activities. Our charity partners, who are located all across the world, receive the donated team-building kits entirely free at no cost whatsoever to them.
Yes. We regularly deliver CSR programmes across the UK, EU and USA.
Visit our Latest News section to read about our recent team-builds across the world.
No, the session is scalable. We’ve delivered sessions for intimate leadership teams of 10, as well as global corporate days with over 2,200+ participants.
We tailor the format to suit your group size and venue.
From new starts to senior executives and leadership teams, our team-building programmes are designed to include everyone in the company. The lessons and impact shared on the day are truly unforgettable and offer powerful benefits for every team at every level.
We have experience working with a range of industries including pharmaceutical, finance, construction, consultancy, events and more.
Get in touch with the team today to discuss your CSR team building options.
Absolutely. Ahead of your event we will work with your team to understand your organisation’s values, CSR goals, or leadership themes so that we can seamlessly weave them into the session’s messaging. Our job is to use these immersive team activities to be a vehicle and a metaphor for the message you need your team to hear and understand.
We’re your partner, and we’ll work with your messaging every step of the way.
Got a question?
Talk to the Team
Our programmes team are keen to understand your business needs, concerns and challenges facing your organisation. From there we will suggest an appropriate team development programme most suitable for your event that will reinforce your key messages.info@lightbulbteams.com
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