Meaningful Meetings Marvelless Mark Kamp--Breaking Down Barriers to Alignment Through Music

Meaningful Meetings With Marvelless Mark Kamp: What’s the Anthem of Your Organization?
The speaker Marvelless Mark Kamp doesn’t need to change his format to ensure that what he does can’t be done on a Zoom. His “rock star” theme and use of drumsticks at events can only be accomplished live, he says.
Jaki Baskow, the Las Vegas talent legend and principal of Jaki Baskow Talent, co-host of this show and Marvelless Mark Kamp’s agent, says the energy begins even before his presentation begins. “At many corporate events, people walk into the auditorium thinking there’s just going to be another speaker or whatever, but not with Mark. Before they walk in, everybody is given drumsticks customized with the name of the organization. “Within just a few minutes everybody’s drumming and making noise, creating a sense of energy that sets up everyone for his purpose,” which he says is to: “to foster unity, boost energy, and drive teams towards big unreasonable dreams,” as explained on his website.
There is no way one can accomplish in a Zoom meeting what Mark Kamp does on site, Baskow emphasizes.
This TH-cam Show with Marvelless Mark Kamp is hosted by Bruce Bolger, Founder of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance, and Jaki Baskow, Founder and CEO of Baskow Talent.
Key Insights
• Rock music is a powerful metaphor for unity and teamwork that also makes people feel good, Kamp says. The rock star dynamic tells a story that people can identify with that helps tear down silos to realign and re-engage teams. “As a leader or sales contender, we can accomplish more as a band that plays the same song at the same time and plays it loud. The rock band analogy helps people visualize and internalize what it is to be a rock star in a way that can be applied to their lives,” Kamp believes.
• The rock music story helps people understand how to stand out in an industry, remain relevant, and “be heard above the noise. When you increase your level of performance you enhance your results. Now more than ever, your teams need to achieve boldly. Like rock stars. The key to safeguarding your organization's future is to jump start them with motivation and then instill the success habits to keep your teams going. Celebrating big and little wins along the way for fuel.”
• No one remembers a boring meeting. Companies are spending large sums to bring people together for a purpose. “There’s a lot of science and psychology to support the use of drumming to make a point, as it releases natural dopamine and oxytocin which makes people feel good.”
• A key to long-term memorability is to create an experience, he underlines. “When you get a roomful of engineers who are not used to having fun together and you put drumsticks in their hands, they become like five-years when they start beating them on the table-almost automatically unifying everyone whether they are left- or right-brain thinkers.”
• The release of energy involved with the experiences Kamp creates by weaving drumming into the sessions he says aids in the subconscious retention of the message days later when people are back to their lives. To reinforce that, everyone is invited to take the drumsticks home with them and to feel free when not disruptive to drum for a minute, which of course reminds them of the meaning behind the message.
• The rock band is an easy-to-understand framework for any type of team, he says, because everyone plays a different role. Yes, there might be a few stars, but all of the backup players are equally important, as are the production or road crews, for a concert to reach the level of a Taylor Swift, he explains. (Note, Swift is known to generally reward everyone on her team after each tour.) “It helps people understand that they don’t have to have the spotlight on them to make critical contributions.”
• Music helps unify in a memorable way with international appeal. It can get the “entire audience to come together with one purpose in mind, all singing what becomes an anthem in effect related to the theme of the event that might be played from time to time throughout the program.”