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A Company Gives (and Gets) Back: Teambuilding Case Study
May 12, 2008
Edited by Jeremy Cohen and Stacy Straczynski
Looking for a little give and take? Well, the sales team at Corporate Visions learned from its week-long themed meeting that giving a little can build a lot of team cohesiveness.
The Event: The entire team at Corporate Visions—an Incline Village, Nev.-based sales consultancy—was awaiting the adventures of its themed weeklong meeting, "The Next Generation."
The Challenge: The assignment began bright and early in a conference room at the Hyatt in Incline Village. CVI's co-owners, Chuck Laughlin and Karen Sage, kicked off the meeting with fun skits that which entertained and engaged the entire group. Joe Terry, CVI’s president, elaborated on the company's vision to serve their colleagues, clients and community.
And then, as the day progressed, CVI was challenged with a team building exercise. The Corporate Visions team was introduced to Todd Demorest and his group from Odyssey—a Chico, Calif.-based company that specializes in team building and awareness exercises.
For CVI's final test, each team was given 35 minutes to construct a child's bicycle. Little did each team know their handiwork was to be received by six smiling and highly anxious eight- and nine-year-olds from the Homework Help Club, a program sponsored by the Children's Cabinet of Incline Village (a non-profit community organization). All the kids knew in advance was that they were getting a surprise from CVI.
Suddenly, Demorest called "time," and each group was asked to stop what they were doing. As each team was preparing to present their finished product to the group, the six children marched in with ear-to-ear smiles. Every CVI employee gasped in amazement. Each child was holding a number that coincided with one of the bikes and a thank you letter to the group of CVI employees that put it together.
The Outcome: "To see the expressions on those kids' faces when they walked into that conference room was amazing," says Terry. "Just by bringing our team together, we were able to truly be of service to these children and our community."
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