Building Bikes For Kids Charity Event

Seeking a fun, high energy, team building exercise that will only take a few hours? Are you interested in bringing life and energy to your next company wide or regional meeting? Are you looking to give back to the community? Well this is your lucky day! Welcome to the Bikes for Kids Charity Event!

Our Building Bikes For Kids Charity Event is a powerhouse program!  We take your event, and pair it with kids from an organization such as Big Brothers and Big Sisters, or Boys and Girls Club from the event city.   Within a few minutes of your team arriving, we bring in the kids to join their team.  It is an amazing, beautiful experience to observe your teams working selflessly to bring something special to the lives of these children.  The proof is in the smiles!

Each team has common goals: Complete the build of a bicycle for a child from the community, and create a commercial selling the bike.  Teams may align this with company values, products and/or goals.  The commercials will be judged on the following:

• Creativity
• Humor
• Teamwork
• Relevance to the meetings theme

This team building event will energize your team, help them communicate more effectively and get them active and having fun. We do this by giving each team most, but not all, the resources they need completely build the bicycles. The equipment necessary to completely finish a bicycle is found with the other teams. Teams must come together, share resources and align strategies in order to be successful.

Most company cultures tend to support the philosophy of competition instead of collaboration and cooperation.  This works great when we are competing against our competition, however, when we compete internally, we are faced with people and teams that begin to work in ‘silos’, creating barriers in communication, trust and positive risk-taking.  This program shatters the “silo effect”!  Upon completion of the event, teams lead themselves in a self-facilitated debrief exploring ideas on breaking-down the barriers they discovered.  Team members then align with a partner, each setting three goals they are willing to implement to keep the changes current.  After the self-facilitated debrief, teams report their findings and insights to the entire group.