GameStop Adds a Little Fun to Annual Meetings with Charity Team Building

Doug Staneart  |  October 28, 2011
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Gamestop Build-A-Bike Team Building Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of working with Gamestop, who revolutionized the electronic gaming industry. They opened up stores nationwide to not only sell console games but also buy them back from you when your finished with them.

Gamestop’s human resources group were at their home office in Grapevine, Texas (between Dallas and Ft. Worth — just north of DFW airport) for some training and their annual meeting, and they decided to spice up their meeting a little and give back to their community by conducting a cool philanthropic team building event at the conclusion of their meeting. Gamestop chose the Build-A-Bike® philanthropic team building event and they donated their completed bikes to the YMCA of Irving, TX.

Gamestop Builds Bikes for Kids in Grapevine, TX

Charity Team Building One of the interesting things that I noticed about this group was that, even in their business meetings, they made a conscious effort to make the delivery fun and interesting for everyone. So when we got to the team building event, it was kind of like a comedian or singer having a warm-up act. The group was already in the mood to have fun, so it was really easy to keep the energy up and let them cut loose a little bit. Many times, when we are organizing or attending annual meetings, we forget that in addition to learning something and building camaraderie, we should also have a little fun when we get together with our coworkers.

If you want information about how your team can organize a “bike building team event” click this link. For a list of all of the team activities in Dallas, click here.

It doesn’t take much to get the group energized, but those little things early on in an event are critical establishing a fun atmosphere.

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Doug Staneart is president of The Leader's Institute ®. He is based in the Dallas, Texas Region. He is a specialist in corporate team building activities and custom presentation skills seminars.
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