The Water Coolers

The Water Coolers: Program Outlines

When we do a corporate or association event, we start with that ever-increasing wealth of material about life and work. After learning about your event and your audience, we build a set list that aligns with your objective, fits with your culture, and is on target for your attendees. For example...

For audiences that travel a lot, we do our “Air Travel Medley” including “Flying In Economy” (sung to the tune of Leaving On A Jet Plane) and “De-Lay” (Harry Belafonte’s Day-O).

For sales audiences, we might do “Nowhere Close To My Quota” (Somewhere Over the Rainbow) and “We Are the Sales Reps” (We Are the Champions).

For audiences that spend a lot of time dealing with technology we’ll include our IT medley, which speaks to anyone ever held captive by a help line (“And Hold Please”), who has pretended to understand an IT guy (“The I.T. Cowboy”), or found themselves judged by how many words a minute they can type with their thumbs (“Blackberry”).

Where possible, language can be added to introductions that speak directly to the audience.

Customization: Making it More your Own
Of course, we can also create material just for your audience. Some clients like to send up the competition, some like to celebrate the craziness of “a day in the life” of their audience members, and some simply want a roof-raising showstopper that salutes audience members, customers, or even the conference theme. We work with you to determine which approach will work best and describe the information we’ll need to write the number. You provide the information (often clients hand this off to someone else in the organization who knows the audience members and we work directly with that person); we develop the song; and send an MP3 demo of the number so you can share it with people internally to make sure it's on target. We then arrange, stage, and rehearse your number. The price of customization depends on how much you want, so let us know what you're looking for and we'll be happy to prepare a proposal.

Also Consider...

An Awards Show
A special, highly customized show that celebrates excellence, brings humor and excitement to the event, and makes audience members feel like rock stars.

Daytime Impact
Music and comedy woven into your programming day that's specially designed to achieve specific meeting management goals like warming up and energizing attendees, bringing on key speakers, or refocusing the audience after a break.