Bike Team Building – 1/2 day
This is our most popular program with good reason. It’s everything you want in a team building program – fun, engaging, and unique with the added bonus that your team gets the reward of giving their bikes to underprivileged kids at the end of the day.
We’ll introduce your team to some fundamentals of teambuilding and engage in exercises designed to challenge and stimulate you to reflect and do things a little differently than you may be used to. We’ll ask you to engage in fun activities to get the parts to put your bicycle together, and at the end of the day you will have learned more about yourself and your team while making a difference in your community.
Learning Objectives & Program Results
- Gain a better understanding of your team members
- Collaborate as a group
- Problem-solve in a fast-paced environment
- Overcome challenges
- Bring out each other’s strengths
- Encourage and build-on each others’ creativity
- Stay fully engaged
- Deliver positive feedback
- Have fun!!
- Make a difference!
In many of our team building and leadership programs we strive to involve the community whenever we can. This gives you an opportunity to see and experience the fruits of your efforts, and it helps to bring the learning home. In the case of Bike Team Building, your ultimate goal is presenting your team’s bicycle to a child from a disadvantaged home. We work with local organizations such as the Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Boys and Girls Club. If you have a charity you would like us to work with we can arrange for that too.
Agenda:
- Introduction and warm-up activities
- Foundations of team building introduction
- Experiential exercises designed to inspire teambuilding
- Clue-solving for bike parts
- Bike Building
- Debrief and application to workplace
- Meet the children
- Closing
Please note that we keep the kids a secret from the group – which makes the surprise all the more powerful! At the end of the day when we ask your team if they thought about their “customer” today, the doors open and the kids come running in. For most participants, seeing the kids is the most memorable part of the event because they feel like they have contributed in a very concrete way. It also becomes a great discussion point regarding who their customer is (whether internal or external) on a daily basis and the opportunity they have to make an impact every day.