Title – Cocktail Bar
Date – June 2004
Beyond The Blue is always seeking new avenues for its clients and their customers to benefit further from innovations at events. Cocktail are hardly a new concept and we will not claim to have discovered them. However through Consultancy Projects with our clients and through extensive staff training we recommend and provide the right solutions for your event.
Depending on the nature of the event you are running and our involvement with it, the popular choice of a cocktail bar can range anywhere from a high volume previously prepared version, to the all singing all dancing flair bar tender throwing ice, fruit, straws, umbrellas, glasses and alcohol into a glass and magically presenting the customer not only with a drink; but a show as well.
We have a range of solutions to enhance your event and we offer Event Management services if you require us to run the show on your behalf. What ever you require we can make it happen for you and your organisation.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
Image – Peter Mayhew
Title – Branding
Date – June 2004
Product placement and branding are central to many events. They help to direct your customers to purchase the products you wish to sell them and can add to the flavour of an event you are running.
Here courtesy of Budweiser a very simple concept at no cost to the client, adds flair and excitement as customers file past to the bar where a cold beer is waiting for them.
Beyond The Blue is a training, Consultancy and Event Management company that can help you develop and execute an event to ensure success both from the point of view of you as a client and from your customers.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Customer Satisfaction
Date – June 2003
Customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal of any event, if we are effective the greatest reward is the sight of customers having fun and feeling completely relaxed and safe in the environment we are providing them with.
Beyond The Blue offers a number of services to ensure this goal is achieved, these include; Event Management; training in the National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS); In-House Security Induction Programmes (IHSI); production of Venue Specific Security Manuals and bar staff manuals; Licensed Retail Sector Training; Consultancy Projects; Conflict Management and Resolution courses; Personal Safety Training; and many others. But in each of these we ultimately the same focus; providing excellence in customer service.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Wheatus
Date – June 2002
Wheatus tested the ability of the Beyond The Blue management team at this event and demonstrated the team’s ability to react quickly to changing circumstances.
Half way through the live set there was a predetermined plan for the singer to move from the stage to play live from one of the balconies at the venue. When he (as is his prerogative) chose at the last minute to take a different route back to the stage running through the middle of the crowd, the carefully prepared plan to ensure his security had to be shelved and staff had to use their experience and initiative to act on the spur of the moment. The action taken by staff and management meant that within a few second everyone knew what was happening and proceeded to react allowing the lead singer clear passage and providing the performance with an edge that many of the crowd will never forget.
A heart stopper for a few seconds for the management; but a show stopper for the crowd.
We can provide Event Management and Consultancy for any event you intend to stage. Our Event Security team can work as the exclusive security presence or we can build a team to work alongside your own in-house team.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Live music crowd dynamics
Date – June 2002
Beyond The Blue has a great deal of experience in the management of crowd dynamics at live music events. We realise the need for detailed forward planning for any event where large crowds may gather. We review any information that may be available from the client and from any past events, carry out detailed analysis of the venue and prepare our plans according to the best practice from our experience in the industry.
We always lead with an experienced Event Security team who have the ability to move from the prearranged plan when required, to ensure public safety.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Petrol Bomb attack
Date – July 2001
This level of aggression demonstrated here at the Polices TSG training centre during the polices own training programme is not an area that Beyond The Blue specialises in… we believe that the best training available in such situations is a running coach…
At Beyond The Blue, we are aware that most of our clients are more interested in low impact techniques. By low-impact disengagement and personal safety techniques we refer to those which do not require force or strength, but rely on a cool head and intelligence. Research clearly shows that meeting force with force only intensifies the level of aggression. We train individuals to recognise the signs of escalating aggression and train individuals how to reduce the risks before they demonstrate themselves as aggressive behaviour.
If however aggression is encountered we teach, as part of our Physical Intervention course, techniques that create the space and the opportunity to get help or to use non aggressive techniques to deescalate the aggressive situation without the need to use force.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
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Title – Riot Training
Date – July 2001
Managers and staff at Beyond The Blue have had a variety of experience and training; this includes observation of training at the Police’s TSG training centre. We believe however that attempting to recreate training such as that offered to the police in the private sector, where financial and time constraint often mean that we only have a day or two available to train individuals is ineffective. The police, military and martial arts experts take years of continuous training in order to perfect their techniques and trying to recreate them in the short space of time available to us, is ineffective.
For our Conflict Management and Resolution, Physical Intervention and Personal Safety Courses we have developed simple personal safety and low-impact disengagement and restraint techniques that are easy to learn and easy to remember. They create time and space between you and an aggressor allowing you enough time to regroup, seek help or call for the police to do what they do best. Beyond The Blue specialises in teaching techniques that deescalate situations and do not escalates them, we consider ourselves proactive rather then reactive.
Please visit our website at www.btbl.co.uk
Image – Peter Mayhew
