Host A Murder events overcomes people’s greatest fear

It has been said there are two innate fears we are born with. Fear of falling and fear of loud unexpected noise, however our biggest fear is one we developed ourselves and we all have it in varying degrees. It is the fear of public speaking.

Before Peter Eedy began doing Host A Murder some 30 years ago. He was a personal communication consultant and by the third time he had observed Host A Murder being played he realised that the game had the power to turn the shyest introvert into a raving extrovert in 2.5 hours. Not onl y did the game overcome people's fear of public speaking it was a hilarious icebreaker, a great team building experience and improved peoples listening skills.

‘I did not realise the full potential of the game to both improve people’s performance in the work place and save a company money until I got a call from Leonie Cribbon the head staff trainer for Telecom in NSW some 25 years ago requesting that I put on a Host A Murder dinner for 20 trainers who did not know one another and were about to embark on a 11 day train-the-trainer course.’

She wanted something on the first night of the course that could open the team up to free flowing communication. The Host A Murder dinner went very well and everybody was communicating at the end of the night.

‘Five days into the course I got a phone call from Leonie saying: “I do not know how to thank you enough”. I was a little taken back as this was the first volunteer feedback from a corporate event I had received’. Leonie went on to say “you don’t know it but you saved our company a lot of money” she exclaimed. “The level of communication that you created with the team on that first night has remained with them up to now. They are relating to one another like they have known each other all their lives. That Host A Murder dinner was the best icebreaker I have ever seen. I am going to send you a letter of acknowledgment.”

From that point on we never stopped using Host A Murder as either a team building experience or to launch workshops seminars. If companies could only understand it's potential especially when you have large seminar or workshops and people attending are strangers and have to interact and have discussions during the workshop. For example, I have attended