Odyssey Teams Blog
How to Talk to Kids During a Board Meeting: Connecting, Communicating & Building Together
How to Talk to Kids During a Board Meeting: Connecting, Communicating & Building Together Working with kids can feel intimidating—especially when it happens in a professional setting. That’s one of the unique features of The Board Meeting, a give-back...
The Board Meeting: A Revolutionary Corporate Volunteer Team-Building Experience
The Board Meeting: A Revolutionary Corporate Volunteer Team-Building Experience In a growing wave of innovative give-back experiences, The Board Meeting has elevated corporate volunteering to an entirely new level—one that feels more like a day at the skatepark than a...
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...
Reinventing Team-Building: From Ropes Courses to Life Cycles™
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...
Life Cycles Program: Leadership Lessons in Action
Life Cycles Program: Leadership Lessons in Action Today I delivered our Life Cycles program to a truly great client. The CEO of their business, Barry, is perhaps the best leader I’ve seen in years. His approach makes them a great...