There’s a certain satisfaction that comes with building something from the ground up. Whether it’s baking a cake or building a company, making something – from concept through design and execution – exercises your mind in a left-right-left march toward completion. It’s like boot camp for your brain. In our Playhouse Challenge™ workshop, your group will cooperatively imagine, design and build custom playhouses to be donated in your organization’s name to nonprofit youth programs, children’s hospitals or low-income housing in the local community. Past participants have described it as a sort of Habitat for Humanity experience, except that we bring the project to you, and the houses are completed before you walk out the door. We combine this “concept-to-completion” building exercise with keynote addresses, team-building activities and a mix-match of ice-breakers to get your team thinking, well, like a team. Your group will discover the joy of building something real. And you'll find that the gifts your team takes away are as significant as those they leave behind.
How it works:
During this Philanthropic Teambuilding, we bring in all the supplies and materials for your group to design, build and showcase one playhouse for every ten participants. Participants are divided into specific roles including CEO, Chief Marketing Officer, Quality Assurance Manager, Building Manager, Architecture/Design Manager, Procurement Manager, etc. Then it’s about managing process, time, teamwork and results. Odyssey leaders initially set up the context of the exercise beforehand and follow through with a debrief afterward to overlay team and leadership developmental content, allowing participants to practice and to integrate into their roles and responsibilities.
Choose a Playhouse Challenge™ format below based on business application and duration:
Playhouse Challenge ™ – Teams building!
Duration: Four to Six Hours
Why? You want an intense project that highlights what can happen when you are all firing on all cylinders – making measurements, swinging hammers, puzzling together the pieces…and doing something good for someone else. It’s a great way to maximize only 4-6 hours without the transportation time and costs of leaving the hotel/venue.
Business application: The Playhouse Challenge is about seeing each other in a new context where the values of trust and collaboration are built and leveraged into everything you and your team does.
Playhouse Challenge™ – Thematic Integration
Duration: Four to Six Hours
Why? Your meeting’s theme and the values that drive performance must come to life for your next meeting/conference to be your most memorable and relevant team experience to date. We’ll work with you to integrate your key messages with our own for a truly transformational experience and process.
Business application: When participants get the message in their bones, they emerge with a new level of commitment, and the impact of your meeting will stick with them long after the program ends.
More Playhouse Challenge facts:
The Playhouse Challenge playhouses are custom designed by Odyssey to meet stringent quality and logistical requirements.
- Our $5 Million in liability insurance coverage protects you and your company against injury claims that could arise from playhouses built by your organization.
**After the Life Cycles program:**
- Follow up! The Odyssey's Tipping Points (TM) process extends the shelf life of the event dramatically by reminding participants regularly of the lessons that shaped their unique experience.
- We have a fleet of follow-up programs, tools and resources for post-program review and consultation, integrating values and messages to make them stick.
**Metrics and assessments:**
- Inquire about incorporating the Denison Culture Survey (http://www.denisonconsulting.com/dc/) to measure specific cultural traits in your team that impact the bottom line. Additional costs apply.
- Alternatively, if you have used metrics/assessments to identify needs you’d like to see addressed, those same metrics/assessments can be used.
