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...
Life Cycles Bike Maintenance Tips
Life Cycles Bicycle Maintenance Tips: Keep Your Bike Rolling Smoothly Life Cycles is proud to support communities by providing bicycles to individuals who rely on them for transportation. While many donated bikes go to children, a large number are...
Improve Corporate Attitudes With Helping Hands
Access the potential of your organization's heart and improve corporate attitudes by giving employees an opportunity for volunteering in a team building meeting. Odyssey Teams' approach to corporate team building is radical compared to many of the mainstream exercises available....
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...
A Boy Named Nobody: Inspiring Students to Support and Trust Each Other
Nobody Becomes Somebody: A Ropes Course Story This is a story about A Boy Named Nobody. I was leading a ropes course program for a youth-at-risk high school group. One of the first things I asked the kids to do...
Life Cycles in Team Building: Lessons from Bikes, Tires, and Metaphors
Life Cycles: Lessons from Building Bikes Life Cycles, the original bike-building program, allows participants to create something valuable and pass it on to the end user. As they build a bike and gift it to a child, they experience...
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...