Team building has a bad reputation. Compulsory outdoor activities in the rain, forced trust falls, questions about everyone's favourite animal. Your team deserves better. A magic workshop with Sudesh Roman is different: nobody expects it, everyone starts at the same level, and the result is an afternoon of laughter, learning and genuine connection.
What makes a magic workshop different?
In a magic workshop your team learns tricks, but that is not the real goal. The real goal is what happens around those tricks: people help each other, laugh at each other's failures, celebrate each other's successes. Without hierarchy, without performance pressure.
The director stands next to the intern, both trying the same trick. Neither succeeds immediately. Both laugh. That shared moment of clumsiness and triumph creates a connection you will never achieve in a meeting room.
What does your team learn during a magic workshop?
A magic workshop is about more than cards and coins. Participants learn presentation techniques, how to deliver a message, how to hold attention, how to deal with an audience. These are skills that come in handy in every role.
They also learn about misdirection: the deliberate steering of attention. In business, that is called framing. A magic workshop teaches your team unconsciously how communication works, and how you can take the audience (or the client) along with your story.
- ✦Presentation techniques and stage presence
- ✦Holding attention and engaging an audience
- ✦Misdirection as a communication principle
- ✦Dealing with mistakes and improvising
- ✦Building confidence in front of a group
- ✦Collaborating without hierarchy
Who is a magic workshop suitable for?
A magic workshop works for almost any team: from sales department to IT team, from management to customer service. Sudesh Roman adapts the level and content to the composition of the group.
For sales teams the emphasis is on presentation and persuasion. For creative teams on improvisation and imagination. For mixed groups it is simply a shared experience that brings people closer together.
What does a workshop look like in practice?
A typical team building workshop with Sudesh Roman lasts 2 to 3 hours. After a brief introduction, small tricks are taught, which participants can immediately show to each other. It ends with a mini-performance: each group presents their best trick to the rest.
That final presentation is gold. Suddenly people who never normally stand in front of a group are consciously capturing attention, and they do it well. That feeling stays with them.
- ✦Duration: 2 to 3 hours (adjustable)
- ✦Group size: 10 to 100 people
- ✦On location at your premises or a hired venue
- ✦Includes materials and instruction by Sudesh personally
- ✦Ends with a mini-performance by each team
A magic workshop as team building is no gimmick, it is a smart, human way to bring people closer together. Everyone starts at the same level, everyone learns something, and everyone goes home with a smile and a trick they can show their family. Sudesh Roman delivers magic workshops throughout the Netherlands and Belgium.