Engagement Unlimited

05/29/2026

I have seen, over & over, teams that struggle to connect, teams that struggle to unify & share a vision, come together in a couple of hours.
They bond in MAGICAL & MAGNIFICENT ways — ways that can make an impact for days, weeks, months & years to come.
All from doing something for someone else.

"𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To help ourselves, we help others. By helping others, we help ourselves.
It's such a simple concept & yet so challenging to reach for on a regular basis.

We work with wonderful local charities to bring meaningful impact & purpose activities to your team — for team building, for social gatherings, for half day or full day retreats & conferences.
The cost is some time & some budget. The return shows up for YEARS.
In YOUR TEAM. And in the COMMUNITY where you met. 🧡

Isn't this something your team could use? Isn't this something everyone could use? Now more than ever...

→ Some genuinely unique & successful ways to build impact & purpose into your team's next important day:

Team building with heart. Buddy Benches, MudPie Kitchens, Food for Families & more — give-back events that build teams & communities. 1,100+ organizations.

05/29/2026

On the lookout for... The Weekend!

05/28/2026

When we ran MudPie Kitchens for the Justice Institute of BC, we got a call three months later.

They wanted to do it again — with the SAME group.

When I asked why, one participant told me:

"Roger, I've been at this organization for five years. The last time we did this, three months ago, was the first time I felt really bonded to my group. It was the first time we all felt really connected — and when we had a chance for another team-building activity, we all wanted to do this exact one again."

That's the power of building something together.

You build relationships while you build hero energy — and a relationship built around hero energy is more meaningful than it was before.

Full piece → https://tinyurl.com/2a4obg6c

05/27/2026

I have a name for what shows up when a team builds something together for people in need.

I call it hero energy.

It's the bond that forms when YOUR team picks up a brush, a hammer, a box of supplies — & does the work for someone who needs it.

The boss has paint on her hands. The quietest person on the team is suddenly telling a story! Nobody is checking their phone.

That doesn't surprise me after 33 years. It doesn't surprise me that the bond doesn't fade when the event ends. This is the power of engagement. And Hero Energy is a potent type of engagement!

It shows up in the hallway two weeks later, in the meeting three months later. It's how people talk to each other when they've bonded through hero energy.

Team building disguised as fun is great. Team building disguised as fun and with purpose added, that's a whole other level.

What would it mean to spend part of that day building something that matters for kids who need it?

Team building with purpose: how a MudPie Kitchens build had staff talking for weeks after — & connected people who had never worked together.

05/25/2026

Meme Monday 🤣

Sometimes questionable math is the best way to start a Monday. 🎉 🍫

05/22/2026

Most briefs ask for fun.

Some ask for connection.

Maybe a few ask for purpose.

And yet purpose is the thing that makes the bond stick.

When you add purpose to fun — when your team is laughing AND building something for someone who needs it — something powerful happens.

It starts with "we had the best time together" and grows into "we did something good together."

That creates what I call hero energy. And the bond inside it is harder to forget.

Three months later, a JIBC group asked us to run the exact same MudPie Kitchens event. Not something similar. The same one.

Here's why → https://tinyurl.com/29jgk6dw

When fun meets purpose, something powerful happens. Discover how Impact and Purpose team building creates hero energy — and bonds that last.

05/22/2026

Friday Fun 🤩

Hands up if you think this kitten is soooo cute.

05/21/2026

Most rooms don't need more energy.

They need more ENGAGEMENT.

And the thing standing in the way isn't the room — it's what happens to all of us under pressure.

What happens?

Under stress, our brains flood the areas that remember negative. The areas that remember positive get starved. That's called positive amnesia.

Positive isn't the human default. For me, for all of us humans, negative is always closer to the surface when you're under stress. The more stress, the more negative. The more important the moment is to YOU, the more stress — and therefore THE MORE NEGATIVE will be all over your brain and body. So fighting to be positive takes effort, but the rewards are massive.

Here's what the data actually says: a 1% lift in engagement can drive up to 9x the results. Not feelings. Results.

But it's hard to reach for engagement when you're stuck in negative. That's why we fight to be positive.

So when YOU walk into that quarterly review, that hard conversation, that room where the air already feels heavy — choosing to FIGHT to be positive isn't soft.

It's the most important thing you can do.

Fight to be positive is not a mood.

It's a discipline.

It's the work of staying engaged when your brain and body are fighting against you, when all they want you to see is negative.

After 33 years on stages with 1,100+ organizations, I've watched the same pattern hold. When a person FIGHTS to be positive, the whole room shifts.

That's the moment. That's where you decide if you're going to be bigger than you think you can be or smaller than you really are.

↓ Link to the practical tools in the first comment ↓

05/18/2026

Happy Victoria Day, Canada!

Enjoy the Holiday 🎉

05/15/2026

The best teams don't always look the same. 🐥🐱🐥

Happy Friday from the EU crew — go find your people this weekend.