Richmond Lawyers Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith Built Bicycles for Kids During the Holidays

Richmond does the Holidays up right- from the Parade of Lights on the James River to the Christmas Parade, Virginia’s capitol city knows how to celebrate.

That includes a group of lawyers from Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith who celebrated the Season of Giving with some charity team building.   Their #1 priority was giving back to the community so they approached us for one of our charity team building workshops.  We knew right away the perfect workshop for them was going to be our Bike-A-Thon™ bicycle team building workshop!

A holiday charity workshop is a great break from stress, not to mention a way to give back.

Giving gifts to kids in the community happens all over the world this time of year, but when lawyers on a mission get together for a charity team building workshop, the giving really gets turned up a notch!

This group put everything they had into building bicycles, despite pressing matters back at the office.  We like to think of our workshops as providing multi-faceted benefits.  Getting away from it all is one of them.

A team building workshop is a chance for employees to leave the stress of the job behind for a few hours.  In the meantime, they’re building positive bonds with each other and improving team working skills.

These Richmond lawyers loved making commercials.

One of our most effective and popular activities in these charity team building workshops is called “Commercials”.  Teams write TV commercials for fictional products or services, then perform them in front a judging panel of their peers.

Lawyers being lawyers, this group went full-on competitive!  The creativity and showmanship was first-rate, and it seemed they loved the judging aspect as much as they enjoyed creating the commercials!

Giving turns local with Bike-A-Thon™

We love it when teams choose to “go local” with their donations.  In fact, we encourage it every time!  With Bike-A-Thon™ it’s an especially good idea because a special event which happens at the end of every workshop.

When all the bicycles have been built, we have the kids from the receiving organization come to accept the donations.  It’s almost always the best part of the whole workshop.

The lawyers from Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith had chosen to donate to the local Richmond Boys & Girls Club, which is probably our most often-selected charity for the bikes.

That didn’t work out, however, so at the last moment we lined up a local church school in Richmond.  Those kids sure were pleased we went with them!  Smiles all around, team bonds were built, and everyone had a good time.

 

Richmond Lawyers Kalbaugh Pfund & Messersmith Built Bicycles for Kids During the Holidays