Team Building

The Build-a-Hand philanthropic team building program is about changing lives. 

AugmentHR is proud to partner with Odyssey Teams to deliver this program to organizations throughout Canada. You will become a part of a growing movement to connect your team to the “WHY” of their work, each other, and the world. This HR team building program will have your team thinking and feeling deeply while they build prosthetic hands that will be donated around the world. Through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events, over 70,000 prosthetic hands have been funded, built, and donated to recipients in more than 90 countries. 

If you want to have a global impact while building your team, the Build-a-Hand program is what you’ve been looking for!

More Than Just a Teambuilding Program

Employee engagement drives productivity and business results. Helping Hands is our philanthropic employee engagement and team building program. It is a 3-hour session, led by an experienced HR professional that marries team, engagement and social responsibility in a fun and unforgettable experience!

In groups of 3, participants will build a prosthetic hand that will be sent to one of 60 countries and given to an amputee in need. We connect their experience to the bigger picture of the department or the organization – the feedback from this program is incredible.

Teambuilding Objectives and Outcomes

• Changing lives through the potential of your hands, heads and hearts to build a better team, organization and world
• Learning about social responsibility, collaboration, teamwork, quality, and commitment
• Having an unforgettable experience with your team that connects to who you are, where you are going, and how you will get there

Target Audience

• Those who want to participate in a philanthropic teambuilding session
• Those who want make a tangible difference in the life of someone in a developing nation
• HR professionals who want to support corporate social responsibility

Whether your organization is large or small, align your brand with purpose, bring your values to life, and provide compelling engagement for your staff, customers, and shareholders by partnering with SolarBuddy.

Through this HR team building program, participants will learn about energy poverty and the effects it has on people around the world in terms of education, health, the environment, and economic conditions. They will find out how innovative design solutions can combat those four pillars of energy poverty.

Solar lights built at your event go direct to children who need them most around the world, creating a real impact!

Giving You and Your Team the Performance Edge

SolarBuddy is a simple way for purpose driven organizations to make a difference while also increasing employee engagement. This 2-hour team building session, led by an experienced HR professional, empowers employees through a creative hands-on experience, delivers excellent ROI to employers and reinforces a culture of giving back. 

During this teambuilding session each participant will build a renewable energy-powered light that will be gifted to a child living in energy poverty to help them to study after dusk and improve their education outcomes.

Teambuilding Objectives and Outcomes

• Learn about the 800 million people living in energy poverty, renewable energy and global citizenship
• Make a solar light and write a personal letter to your buddy
• Illuminate futures of children living in energy poverty
• Have an unforgettable experience with your team that connects to who you are, where you are going, and how you will get there

In The Big Picture / Team Mosaic, teams collaborate and communicate to create an interconnected multi-tile piece of art reflecting the “big picture” of your team’s vision and values.  

The need for teams to be united and working towards a common goal has never been more critical. Through expert facilitation, participants engage in an artistic project and discussions that bring organizational goals, values, and behaviours to life. The Team Mosaic is a reminder that every piece counts.

Enhance Communication and Collaboration

In The Big Picture, teams collaborate and communicate to create an interconnected multi-tile piece of art reflecting your team’s vision and values. Everyone knows that, from time to time, it is important to step back and look at the Big Picture, particularly when looking at an organization and how its people operate and communicate internally. 

In this creative teambuilding activity, the importance of teamwork, cooperation and communication is reinforced through the process of painting an artistic creation of truly epic proportions.

Teambuilding Objectives and Outcomes

• Create an image that represents something meaningful to the team or organization
• Collaborate and communicate effectively to ensure a quality end product, and share their pride together
• Realize the success and quality of their picture depends on their ability to cooperate rather than compete – which is true for their work within the organization, as well
• Break out of normality to work loosely and expressively together
• Learn to step back and look at the bigger picture in their day-to-day routine 

Target Audience

• Those want want to reinforce communication, teamwork, alignment, process management
• Teams who want a fun activity that they can do together