Are Your Staff Meetings Productive? Maybe You Need a Bit of Magic

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It’s Monday morning and you’re trying hard not to yawn at your daily meeting. Your talkative colleague who’s remarkably perky even before 8AM makes you contemplate your career choices as you’re having trouble keeping up with what exactly is going on. You might even snooze for a bit. No one’s going to notice anyway.

There’s a reason why you’re completely uninterested in staff meetings. More often than not, they are incredibly unengaging and unproductive, sometimes even completely unnecessary. Some companies and managers organize more meetings to nurture the illusion they are being productive and super busy when in fact – the employees probably don’t even know what was the point of the meeting at all.

Surprisingly enough, excessive meetings ruin the productivity flow within your business, studies have shown. Of course, this does not mean you should give up on meetings completely; you just need a new, fresh approach to organizing them. Even if you look beyond your internal meetings, audience engagement is a delicate thing.

Maybe you need a bit of magic in order to succeed? That’s one of the fields where Magency (magency.me) can help.

Interactive Solutions for Amazing Meetings, Trainings and Corporate Events

Magency is a company that combines technological innovation, magic and live social networks. It offers you a collection of solutions and activities designed to boost interactivity, collaboration, performance, and productivity within business meetings or other company events.

What’s even better, these solutions can help you regardless of the size of the group involved.

Magency was founded in 2011 in Paris by Vincent Bruneau and since then, it grew to become a global leader in the meeting and training industry. So far, the company has worked with many renowned names such as SNCF, Nissan, Airbus, BNP Paribas, La Poste, AXA, Toyota, and others.

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Magency offers software solutions that help you get the most out of your training sessions and collaboration-focused meetings. It also works close with businesses in order to design immersive shows that will motivate participants to engage and have fun along the way.

In the attention-deficit era, it’s fairly hard to hook your audience, occupy them, and give them a reason to listen and participate. However, Magency utilizes the power of digital in order to spark engagement and create real magic within its innovative services, performances, and a platform called Sparkup.

 

 

Create Magical Experiences in Order to Connect

Back in 2014, Bruneau has given a TEDx talk in Brussels in which he explained that magic is actually a powerful form of communication that can trigger and transform emotions. Magic comes down to taking risks and connecting to others, and since day one – it has become a part of the company’s DNA.

The company offers the services of digital magicians who can create close-up animations for your audience and use tricks to amaze them. The tricks can be customized and designed using your unique brand messages and products, and powered up with iPads. What better way to create buzz and inspire awe?

In addition, Magency can provide you with an extraordinary musical performance that plays a mix of music of your choice. Participants and attendees can vote for their favorite song and leave their mark, which contributes to the event dynamics.

Another great experience comes in the form of digital art: you can hire a digital portraitist who will create a digital caricature or portrait of individuals from your audience. These digital drawings can be personalized in order to fit the theme of your event.

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Different scenic shows can make your event unforgettable. They rely on the symbiosis of technology (iPads are being creatively used) and the power of visual. To get a better idea, check out one small fragment of the corporate training for Nissan or a full digital magic show on Digitec in 2016.

 

 

 

Sparkup Brings Magic to Your Meetings

Sparkup is a platform with more than 15 activities that helps you get the most of your meetings, making them both efficient, engaging, and fun. It aims to include all of the participants so that nobody is left behind.

Within the app itself, participants are already connected. The animator can easily launch activities to energize the session. Group brainstorming is easier and ideas can be discussed in a simpler way, so to immediately create action plans.

Sparkup has also made it effortless to collect feedback and make decisions together. Participants can interact from any device, whether we’re talking about mobiles, tablets or computers. This makes the tracking of a meeting far more logical and the meeting reports can be done simultaneously. Efficiency is measured in real time.   

This app has a wide applicability. You can use it within your:

  • Corporate meetings
  • Training sessions
  • Conferences and events
  • Educational environments

Sparkup is currently being used in 47 different countries, it has 482,768 users and a very high customer satisfaction score of 97%.

The secret behind its success lies in the fact the platform is very user-friendly and answers a real problem many companies and organizations face. It is reliable and can handle numerous live interactions, it doesn’t require download but instead, it can be instantly accessed from any device, it is fully customizable, intuitive, and simple to use. Finally, smartphones are not something that distracts people within the meeting, but they rather pull participants in.

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Here are some of the useful features that might intrigue you:

  • Data can be easily exported from Excel and discussed within the platform
  • You can get an in-depth analysis of all your sessions with personalized dashboards
  • Take advantage of built-in templates and customize your sessions with your branded visuals
  • Share content directly within the platform and keep everyone in the loop
  • Integrate Sparkup with other existing tools for a seamless work session

Of course, the support team is at your disposal whenever you need them. Bringing value to their customers and clients is one of Magency’s core values because, as they say – we win if you win.

Over to You

As you can see, Magency pioneered in bringing digital platforms, magic and event management together. It is original and innovative because it brought something extraordinary to the market and filled in a gap that no one else before did.   

Interestingly enough, Magency’s CEO Vincent Bruneau is also a successful musician, laureate in Jazz and clarinet from the National conservatory of music. He was one of the first people to practice street magic and animate passer-bys. By combining his love for magic and pure, honest audience connection, Bruneau poured his experience into a unique digital platform, which helped his company gain recognition across Europe and the US.

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And what about you? What’s your magical story you want to share the world? What makes you original? Do you have your own outstanding business idea fit for the 21st century?

Don’t keep it to yourself, let people know. Make it personal: create a website and start doing something! Check if your desired .ME domain name is available now!

Marketing Manager, FourDots