The White Mountains in Northern New Hampshire was the setting for a great Build-A-Bike event hosted by Freudenberg NOK. The Omni Mount Washington Hotel was a beautiful venue for over 60 of the company’s high achievers to come for special meetings which included this special activity. The event has a great philanthropic twist at the end as Children from the Easter Seals program in New Hampshire provided children to receive the bikes at the end of the event. The three hour event had the participants involved in several fun activities that aided in their teambuilding and leadership skills. From the opening exercise to the giving of the bikes to the children the energy and enthusiasm was high and the laughter contagious.

What can a Build-A-Bike event teach us about teamwork? One simple lesson that is experiences is that teamwork goes beyond the immediate team to involve a larger team. In this instance there were 10 teams given various tasks, but it wasn’t until they learned to work together across team boundaries that the problems were able to be solved. When the smaller teams enlisted the help of others the actual teamwork among teams provided the benefit. Often time companies are divided by location, divisions, departments, etc., but when we work across those boundaries to help each other- progress really occurs. We may compete for limited human resources, time, financial consideration, budgetary appropriations, and any other things, but competition can become detrimental to the overall welfare of the larger company. If one branch succeeds at the cost of another the company at large suffers.

This is just one of the lessons demonstrated by the Build-A-Bike Teambuilding event. The people at Freudenberg NOK did a great job contributing during the event and in making a positive difference in the life do 10 boys and girls, their families and the communities they live in.

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