Charity Team Building with 350 hundred people from Rhode and Schwarz
Charity Team Building takes many forms but few, if any, are more fun than building robots and competing. Rhode and Schwarz made raising money to fight cancer fun and competitive. Sales meetings have huge potential to earn money for good causes. Sales and competition go hand in hand and can be harnessed to create an atmosphere of competitive giving. Rhode and Schwarz are masters of this environment.
After hearing stories of sales meetings past and the amounts of money they raised, we were keenly interested in modifying our event to fit their style. Together we created a competitive robot tournament with an interesting twist in the end. Teams that finished in the top three out of more than 35 teams were invited on stage to compete in a Battlebots style robot battle tournament. The crowd loved the battles so when the head of sales announced other teams could join the tournament – if they were the highest bidder – they jumped! He auctioned off three additional spots. Once the tournament was down to tow teams he again bid spots for more teams to join – and they did. Then he offered a bounty from his own pocket for the winner of an entirely new tournament of 8 Battlebots all competing at the same time in a free-for-all winner take all.
The end result was that Rhode and Schwarz raised thousands of dollars to fight cancer while making it competitive and fun for sales folks. We kept the entire audience of over 350 people engaged and active for 2 hours, and everyone left feeling like they had made a meaningful contribution to a worthy cause. By making the giving competitive, the charity team building maximized giving – eliciting irrational amounts from a frenzied atmosphere and providing something extremely fun – competing in front of 350 peers.
Robot Team Building
