Are you looking for unique team building events and exercises?

The Drum Cafe provides successful and soon-to-be-successful companies with a unique and innovative corporate team building and training solutions, all designed to break down barriers of community and culture, build morale, enhance productivity, and increase profits by aligning every one to a common purpose and embracing diversity.

Our high value and much sought after team building programs and retreats are designed and implemented with the utmost attention to detail. They are available anywhere your group is getting together.

Our most popular locations include various cities and resorts in across Canada in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. We also are called upon to take our interactive drumming team building events on the road to cities and resorts in the United States and around the globe.

As leaders in energizing organizational spirit, Drum Cafe's world-proven programs are guaranteed to build powerful teams and unite companies:

Benefits after a Drum Cafe team building program:

• Get workers to work more efficiently together.
• Departments start communicating better.
• Break down barriers between Staff
• Close the gap between top management and workers
• Motivate staff to perform better
• Increase Productivity
  
  

Why interactive drumming works

Drumming is a universal expression that transcends all boundaries: personal, organizational or cultural. Drum Cafe teaches staff to increase productivity and efficiency through better team work. Our leadership program has been designed by global Motivation Speakers, HR Consultants, Company CEOs, Leading Musicians and Academic professors. The Fortune 500 companies can’t be wrong. We work vertically and horizontally across companies eg.

• IBM over 50 team buildings worldwide.
• BMW 360 degrees training: Sales Staff, Dealership owners, Marketing
  departments, Factory workers, Customer Service teams etc.
• Microsoft Tech-ed, Amsterdam. 6000 people, June 2004
  

This unifying experience creates the perfect platform for teams to experience the power of all working together to achieve a common objective.

The program is designed to:

Break down barriers to create a more open organization.

Align to a common goal, mission or vision.

Improve Communications through accurate feedback.

Accelerate Productivity by motivating staff and getting them to listen to each other.

Team building has never been so effective! Each individual brings their unique sound into the mix to create a one-of-kind percussive orchestra-one that wouldn't be the same without the people who are taking part. This is truly a case of unity through diversity.

First we break down barriers, level the playing field, with a 15 minute opening of non-verbal communication. Music is a universal language, that allows us in a universal way to break down barriers and transcend the difference among us as humans and individuals. In Africa and in many other cultures around the world, drumming has been used for centuries to bring people together. Before any gathering, a Drum Call is heard through out the village. The drum call is the summoning of the tribe, to come to the center of the community, because something is important is about to happen. It could be to celebrate a birth, a marriage, or a meeting of the minds to make a community decision. The group comes together to make music, engage and dance, to get connected, put behind the differences and allow an opening for everyone to feel apart of the community.

Second, we align everyone to a common theme through the bass note, the foundation of the music. In every organization, before true success can be realized, there needs to be alignment or some sort. This alignment could be to the vision, mission or values of an organization. It could be alignment to a common goal or challenge. We use the power of the bass note, the alignment of the music, as the metaphor for demonstrating the power of alignment with in the group.

Third, we explore the diversity, in each and everyone’s unique and individual contribution through the tone note, the communication note. Organizations these days are made up of a divers array of individuals. Different nationalities, religions, cultures, ages, gender all with in different departments dispersed geographically through out a region or around the world. We use the tone note, the communication note to explore different voices with in the group. Those different voices can translate into different thoughts and feelings, different ways of doing things, different departments, different unique contributions. We learn to embrace the diversity with in the group to understand that it takes a variety of different voices, channeled along a common vision in order for the group to achieve success.

We close off with a fun high energy percussion set, embracing diversity handing out fun percussive instruments, in an all out celebration of self expression and leadership. This is where we take the drumming skills that we have learned in the beginning to create a unique song. A song that will be specific to that group. It is an all out celebration. A celebration of diversity, contribution and leadership. The group is encouraged to contribute as they feel the need. Their only objective is to really listen. Listen to the music, listen to every one around them. They are required to try and follow that single bass beat, the beat that binds the group together. When they feel that for some reason the rhythm has gotten away on them, and they have lost the foundation, they are encouraged to sit back, relax, listen and slowly bring them selves back into the music, allowing their team mates to carry them.

Through the universal expression of music and rhythm, your organization will discover that the whole is greater than the sum of all its individual parts. 

Working collaboratively is not only fun, productive and inspirational, but it creates a space that transcends barriers of communication and culture, and it is from that place where the magic happens.

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