We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Workshop.nl, bringing you exclusive rates on the venue when running your workshops in Amsterdam! This collaboration allows Workshop.nl customers to access our premium venues at 10% discount. Perfect for hosting workshops around crafts, business development, team building activities, art and other workshops.
Our workshop venues in Amsterdam are designed to foster creativity and collaboration, providing the ideal environment for any successful workshop. Whether you’re planning a corporate training session or a creative brainstorming meeting, our workshop our flexible in layout, setup and fully equipped to meet your needs.
How to get the special ratewhenrenting a venue forworkshops in Amsterdam To get the special rate, publish your workshop on Workshop.nl and add #CreativeWorkshops in the comments when requesting for a quote. We will apply the discount on your quote once it’s received.
Together with Workshop.nl, we are committed to offer locations that contribute to the success of your event already delivering exceptional experiences. Have custom needs for your workshop? Don’t hesitate to reach out. We are more than happy to go the extra mile in order to deliver the expected outcome.
More to come Stay tuned for more updates and special offers as we continue to enhance our services and partnerships. For more information or to book your space, visit our website or contact us directly. Let’s create something amazing together!
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📆 Sábado 11 y Domingo 12 de Noviembre 2023. Jornada de las 10:00h a 15 h. Ambos días.
📍 Creative Point, Kanaalstraat 130, 1054XN Amsterdam old west.
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You might already think that “affordable meeting spaces in Amsterdam” sounds like a funny statement especially when Amsterdam is added to the sentence. Well, it’s not all that terrible. Amsterdam is not a cheap place to be although the tips I am about to share can easily scratch off plenty of euros from the final bill.
I want top highlighting that real estate in Amsterdam is generally expensive. Consider that the average cost of a m2 for housing is approximately €23,00. This results into a cost of €2300 for a 100m2 apartment. A day out of the office with your team will come at a cost, nevertheless the outcome produced in an offsite meetings space is invaluable and totally worth the investment.
In the examples used below I consider a typical team consisting of 10 people.
1. Choose an alternative meeting space location in Amsterdam
Among other great things, Amsterdam is famous for the unique central canals including historic streets such as Kaizersgracht, Prinsengracht, Herengracht. Expect a meeting space in this area to cost you an average of €800 per day for 50m2 without including anything but the venue lease itself. I can guarantee you extra charges for coffee or tea, flip charts, post it’s and facilitations kits and sometimes even the flavoured water itself! Sounds expensive although you have a spacious real estate exclusively for your team in a prime location to be the most productive.
My best advice is to explore alternative locations such as Amsterdam East, West, New West or even Amsterdam North. This will immediately scrape at least €200 from the bill, lowering the meeting space rental to an average of €600 per day if not less.
Your savings: €200 per day
2. Choose a meeting space with everything included in the price
You have the cost of the meeting space and you have everything else that will make your stay convenient and pleasant. One of the most frequent questions we are asked from our customers when they book is whether they will be able to have coffee or tea, if we have flip charts, monitors etc… It’s funny that we always considered these facilities for granted. Recently I did some thorough research which inspired this article and I found crazy extra charges. Avoiding these can massively reduce your bill.
Extra meeting space rental charges that will blow your budget
Flip charts – €50 per flip chart
Coffee & tea – €3,50 per person or €16 per person for unlimited
Flavoured water – €16 per bottle
Projector – €80 per day
Cleaning fee – €50
While I am not here to judge the pricing strategy of other meeting spaces in Amsterdam I must say that these extra charges can add to the bill at least €215,00 per day, therefore why not search for a space that has everything included in their price?
Your savings: at least €215 per day
A helpful tool to compare these extra charges for meeting rooms Amsterdam is Spacebase.com.
3. Find an affordable meeting space that allows bringing your own lunch & catering
Early breakfast snacks at Creative Point meeting space
4 years in this business it never gets old to see the smiling faces when lunch arrives! Even though catering services offer great convenience, I am frequently asked by customers if they can bring their own lunch. Of course you can! You rent the venue therefore I want you to feel like home. Organise your own catering or lunch and I am offering a kitchen that facilitates this. A group of 10 people with an average lunch cost of €26 per person adds an extra €260 to the final bill. You can check our catering prices just for reference.
While doing my own research I found many meeting spaces that charge a fee of €10+ per person to arrange your own catering. This is not right… Search for a meeting room that allows you to organise your own catering without any cost.
Your savings: Can be from €60 to €350 per day
4. Make sure to choose a meeting space that grants you free preparation / wrap up time
Whether you are running a team building bootcamp or an ideation session you probably have plenty of preparation work in advance. This shouldn’t come with extra costs even though I found that most spaces are putting an hourly charge on this.
My advice is to double check with the meeting space manager before you book. Simply ask them beforehand if you are allowed to arrive earlier and have the venue prepared and ready for your session. My personal opinion is that organisers MUST allow preparation time free of charge.
Your savings: from €60 to €120 per hour
5. Ask for affordable parking possibilities close to the meeting space
Amsterdam is one of the most expensive European cities to park, costing you a staggering €7,50 per hour in the red zone. The second most expensive zone is €6 per hour. Consider if some of your participants will arrive by car. Knowing the parking options in advance can save you and your team a lot of money and frustration.
Choose a Park & Ride (P+R) location
Bicycle is always the best option although when this is not possible the second best choice is to leave your car at a park and ride space(P+R) and come to the city with public transport. This will massively reduce your parking costs.
Other private parking options
Other alternatives, cheaper than the municipality parking, are QPark and ParkBee which are private parking facilities still cheaper than the extreme municipality charges.
Wrapping this up
Our 4 years of experience have shown us that teams and organisers are appreciating the simplicity of making the reservation and most importantly the ambience of the meeting space. The time spent in a meeting space is primary for achieving great team results therefore fostering productivity is our number one priority and should be for every other meeting space provider out there.
Having the right tools in a productive environment is paramount for a positive day out of the office.
We have been operating Creative Point Meeting Rooms for 2 years now. A question that we frequently receive is “Why do companies hire creative meeting rooms when they have large spaces internally?”
To answer this question we decided to interview Bogdan Manta, one of our most loyal customers. Bodgan runs the company The Essential Workshops and calls himself a rustiologist. (he takes the rust away from people’s facilitation, negotiation, public speaking and overall communication skills). He has over 17 years of experience in the event & Show production industry and holds a bachelor in Psychology, one In Economics and a Master in Business Communications.
Bogdan Manta facilitating: Elevate your professional self
Do you have a physical office?
I do have an office which is my home, but I don’t spend a lot of time at home. I come from many years of corporate, so if I stay too much with myself that’s a big challenge for me. I like being surrounded by people. But it depends on the people.
That’s why the so-called co-working spaces never work for me. When there are too many people that are talking together and on different subjects I find it challenging, because I can focus on them all and listen to them, rather than focusing on what I have to do.
Why co-working spaces don’t work for you?
I realised I’m a highly sensitive person, an HSP. I perceive stimuli like sounds, noises at higher levels than most people. Around 17% of the humans are HSPs, most of them don’t know it. When I hear topics that are not related to what I do, I get distracted and I cannot focus on what I do. I become curious about what other people say and that prevents me from focusing on my own work. I cannot be effective in any of those offices.
It is very different from a corporate environment because at a business we were at least talking about the same subject. We were in a way connected with each other.
What main attributes that you are searching in a meeting room?
From the workshop: Elevate your professional self at Creative Point
I’m all about the physical context. The physical context is fundamentally important for any sort of interaction and connection with people. Unfortunately, most people ignore the physical context and only focus on saving money on their event that they will use for offering coffee / tea or some snacks for free during their event. Although, coffee and tea are only a tiny part of the physical context.
How does a meeting space contribute to the success of a training / workshop?
From the workshop: Elevate your professional self
I plays a fundamental contribution and I can reason that with my 17 years of productions and events experience. If you have people in a meeting space for more than an hour or facilitate a full day workshop then this meeting space becomes their home. Mood, focus and attention span are closely related to the event space.
Colors, smell, as well as technical details and ease of use are equally important. The final touch is the people that are hosting your event. Those are elements that so many people ignore unfortunately. It’s the reason that many events and workshops do not deliver the expected results.
If you do not provide a warm environment for participants to feel comfortable, then you kill your own or workshop or event production.
Every small detail matters. Having the right tools and the right smell.
What do you see In your audience that proves this added value?
Some people will never express it as they don’t get it until you point it out to them. What happens with people is that they perceive something subconsciously and they don’t realise it until someone mentions it. Then they will have this “aha” moment and will start noticing the amazing venue that they are at.
Sometimes people just feel very comfortable and they cannot explain why. They will tributes this feeling to the workshop, the people and the content. Once you tell them that the space is actually another reason, they will totally acknowledge it.
What is your recommendation for teams looking for a creative meeting room?
First of all the warm on the space.
People are animals and as animals we always look for a comfortable inhabitat. That has never changed throughout the history of mankind.
When you bring a group of people together you need to release a certain type of neurotransmitters. One of them being oxytocin which is the bonding neurotransmitter.
This can be released with effective storytelling but also because of a creative physical space. Oxytocin will not be released cannot be released in a cold venue.
The warmth of the Creative Point for example with all the little details, like the deodorant in the bathroom, makes such a fundamental difference just because it creates this homey relaxed environment.
It is very normal for someone to sweat in a stressful situation. They might not even understand it but other people will. That combined with smell can immediately kill productivity.
When people smell sweat, they produce different neurotransmitters and they will want to get away from that so instead of creating a bonding experience you creates a runaway experience.
What type of workshops do you run at Creative Point?
I run a couple of different workshops for companies and individuals. Some of them are:
Elevate your professional self
How to Deliver Impactful Presentations
Intensive Workshop on Impactful Communications
Negotiations Lab
For more details you can visit Bogdan’s website or facebook page.
Happy to announce our second event with Pedro Marques, senior Product Designer at Adyen.
Pedro has extensive experience in UX design from multiple disciplines. Product design, data driven A/B testing, AI & Machine Learning are some of the unique skillset that Pedro has obtained over his years of experience in the industry. He is also a globally known keynote speaker.
The main objective is a meaningful conversation that drives real value for the participants. Thus we are sharing a soft agenda since we want to be flexible and adjust it based on the questions we will receive during the event.
Common questions to be answered during this event:
– What is there to design in AI? – Do I need to know data science? – What is the role design plays in ML? – Where to start and what to study
Attendees will receive a sli.do link in their Meetup accounts to add their own questions and vote for existing ones. (Check your spam emails as they are sent from Meetup servers which usually ends up in Spam)
Agenda ————- 6:15pm – You can arrive at the venue 6:30pm – Kickstart the discussion 7:15pm – 15′ break 7:30pm – Continue discussion based on your questions 8:15pm – Wrap up, round of feedback on the session ————- 8:30pm – Networking drinks in the area (Optional)
Location ———— Creative Point Meeting Space -> www.creativepoint.nl The event will be facilitated by Tomasz Pieta
Payment ———— You can pay via PayPal or cash during your arrival at the venue
Do you want to design interactive, animated interfaces and app or website prototypes?
Principle is a fantastic prototyping tool and really handy especially for those moments when you want to create a high fidelity animation in a short time.
In this course, I will teach you the tips and tricks of Drivers, Components, Events, Scrolls and Animate.
For the final project, we will design an iOS app to book a Safari Tour using Figma and Principle.
Currently, Figma and Principle are one of the most sought after design tools for UI/UX design! See for yourself how fascinating the design of interactions really is!
Design your own, spectacular presentations on Behance, Dribbble and level up your portfolio!
– Designing & layer organization in Figma – Principle Interface & Tools – UI Micro-interactions in Principle for mac – Working with Drivers and Events – Handling components in Principle – Working with Multiple screens – Advanced Animation – Figma & Principle tips & tricks – Practical projects
*Limited seats available – 20 participants only, Hurry and RSVP*
In this first, kickstart session we invited Saurav Roy, Product Manager at Booking.com.
During this session with Saurav, we will discuss the skillset and specific knowledge required to get a job as a PM and further grow in the role. Everyone’s case is a little different thus those events will be always in small groups. Our main objective is a meaningful conversation that drive real value for the participants.
Common questions to be answered during this event:
– I want to move to a PM role but have no experience, where should I start? – What are the core responsibilities of a PM? – Should I consider startups or mid-level/big companies? – How to prepare for PM interviews? Specific examples? – What does the growth path look like for a PM? – What are the main set of skills you need to succeed in the role? – What specializations are possible in a PM role? – Does a PM have to be a people manager?
Attendees will receive a sli.do link to add their own questions and vote for existing ones.
Attendees will also receive a link to the presentation containing information material and resources regarding the Product Manager role.
Agenda ————- 12:30pm – You can arrive at the venue 1:00pm – Kickstart the discussion (top 5 most questions from sli.do) 2:00pm – 10′ break 2:15pm – Continue discussion based on your questions 3:00pm – Wrap up, round of feedback ————- 3:30pm – Networking drinks in the area (Optional)
