Build-A-Bike
When training and generosity are combined it made for a special day in Nashville with Cintas. It was the first time I’d been a part of giving away so many bikes to such awesome kids.
Build-A-Bike Leadership Training
We were at the Gaylord Golf Club in Nashville, Tennessee on a beautiful summer day. I’ve been plenty of places for training and keynotes, but today was a different kind of day.
I’ll never forget the moment at the top of the stairs. The management trainees were just informed that the bikes they built during the training were going to be delivered to inner city kids who have never had a bike and most of them didn’t know how to ride a bike.
Immediately the tears started streaming and then laughter, disbelief and joy. The Cintas Team Members took the kids into the parking lot, gave them a helmet and taught them how to ride. About 15 minutes into riding around a parking lot (dodging the latest Mercedes Benz now dangerously parked) a kid turned and asked, how much longer he was going to be able to ride. He couldn’t believe the bike was his.
Then my wife rolled in with Chick-Fil-A for the kids and the plush golf club let us all eat with the kids in the club house, overlooking a golf course most will never see again.
It was a good day. A powerful day. A day of effective training.
Find the Eddy
We can let the current take us and try to enjoy slamming into the rocks along the way or we can learn how to find the eddy, rest, reset and navigate the rapids with joy. Great leaders learn to rest and then move forward.
Rest
I was a cocky 15 year old about to experience the cold Colorado River for the first time after convincing a half-way sober guide to let me go it alone in a kayak. We are heading down the river and he said, “you need to know how to find an eddy in case you need to rest in the rapids”. After learning what an eddy was the hard way, I found myself heaving for air from the cold river.
We’ve all been there. The painful feeling of nothing going right when you are simply trying to rest.
We focus on helping leaders learn to find the eddy so that we can navigate the rapids rather than letting the rapids control us.
If you need to learn how to rest to get back to being you, then give us a call.