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Purpose Driven Work: How to Find It, Manage It, and Lead It.

Purpose Driven Work: How to Find It, Manage It, and Lead It.

Purpose-driven work inspires employees and drives organizational success. Using tools like the Five Whys, leaders can uncover deeper motivations, fostering engagement and trust. Odyssey Teams’ approach helps teams find purpose, enhancing productivity and creating meaningful impact.

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4 CSR Team Building Activities to Improve Team Efficiency

4 CSR Teambuilding Activities to Improve Team Efficiency

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is more than a buzzword—it’s a powerful way to unite teams, boost morale, and make a real-world impact. Odyssey Teams, a leader in purpose-driven team building since 1991, offers innovative CSR activities that blend collaboration, leadership, and social good. From building prosthetic hands for amputees to crafting bikes for kids in need, these programs create lasting bonds and measurable business outcomes. Discover how activities like Build-a-Hand®, Life Cycles, Board Meeting, and Playhouse Challenge can transform your team’s efficiency, engagement, and connection to a greater purpose.

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Skiing the Leadership Summit

Skiing the Leadership Summit

Skiing offers powerful lessons for leadership, as Odyssey Teams' Jonas Herzog and Kim Clary discovered on the slopes of Lake Tahoe. From practicing mindfulness to stay focused, to embracing calculated risks and adapting to challenges, skiing mirrors the skills needed for effective leadership. Learn how awareness, deliberate action, embracing discomfort, and overcoming adversity can transform you into a better leader and team player, both on and off the mountain.

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Classroom Teamwork Activities Bring Students Together

Classroom Teamwork Activities Bring Students Together

Classroom Teamwork Activities Bring Students Together Classroom teamwork activities can overcome the stale feeling school can create as students make their way through the semester. But more importantly, it can help students learn to relate and support one another to...

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Greg Clink with Lain Hensley

The Wildcat Way - Greg Clink

Join us as we dive into the remarkable 16-year tenure of Greg Clink, the mastermind behind Chico State's transformation into a Division II powerhouse. Discover the passion and strategy that propelled the Wildcat men to 12 postseason appearances, eight NCAA...

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Podcast with Jeremy Bates

Slangin' Hope Not Dope - Jeremy Bates

Jeremy Bates, aka "The Hope Dealer" was born into almost all of the typical risk factors. From teen pregnancy to drug abuse, the streets of Long Beach, California would educate him and his brother on poverty, family, trust and commitment....

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Todd Demorest and Lain Hensley

Thriving with Parkinson's - Todd Demorest

As a keynote speaker and team building expert, Todd Demorest is no stranger to helping people face challenges and have hard conversations. Diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2015, the typical tremors people get when stepping in front of an audience took...

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Steve Perez - Ep. #19

The President is in the Building - Steve Perez

Steve Perez is the 13th president of California State University of Chico. We sat down with him and talked about Leadership, Family, Post Covid Education, A.I., and the Future of Chico State. Enjoy a personal conversation with Steve Perez and...

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6 Tips for Ropes Course First Timers

6 Tips for Ropes Course First Timers

Corporate give-back activities such as our Helping Hands program, Life Cycles and The Board Meeting are some of the best corporate team building events you could do, but if you're looking for something very active, look no further than a...

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