Odyssey Teams Blog
Can Too Much Charisma Make A Leader Ineffective?
Our Co-Founder and COO, Lain Hensley was featured in - and contributed to - an article by The Economist Online, looking at the role of charisma in leadership practices.
Build Something Lately? - Why Team Building Is Important
Something unique happens when a person builds something; a model airplane, a garden, a scrapbook, or woodworking project etc. Time and moods seem to shift and a sense of pride and accomplishment shows up when the builder steps back and...
The Proven Benefits of Team Building
If you’ve never hosted a team building process you may be asking yourself, “Is this even worth it? Will a team building activity solve any of my problems?” The answer is, “yes.” Many feel that the term “team building” is...
Overcoming Team Building Challenges Managers Face Every Day
Every company hopes to have a cohesive team working harmoniously towards a common goal. Though no matter how hard management may try, team building challenges and problems will always arise. If you’ve ever been a manager, or are one now,...
Working with kids in a Board Meeting
Skateboard dreams come true in a Board Meeting Whether you have children, or not, the idea of working with other people’s kids is a daunting one. This is one of the unique differences to hosting a Board Meeting. Participants...
How does Odyssey incorporate meaningful activities prior to the build in particular? I struggle with people just wanting to build a bike for hours and then are underwhelmed by donation numbers. Do not let them know anything about the building...
Lessons Learned from Cancer & Coming Back to Work
Entrepreneurs are famous for being self-taught business minds who relentlessly learn new skills. We read business books and attend conferences. We seek out mentors and develop new skills. But sometimes earth-shattering lessons — ones we could never learn from a...
Life Cycles Program - Build a Bike for a Child
By the Spring of 2000, I was losing my passion for the experiential medium that was tremendously successful for the previous decade. Ropes Courses started became synonymous with “teambuilding” and “teambuilding” was losing it’s value through poor facilitators, knock-offs and companies who were seeking it just to check the box...
Today I delivered our Life Cycles program to a really great client. The CEO of their business, Barry, is perhaps the best leader I’ve seen in years. This makes them a great client because it’s so easy to bring his...