We are BITOU
How do you form unique team events that are always new and always have an open ear for the current events in the working world? For this, a team is needed which grows and learns independently. We at BITOU are thinkers, doers and strategists, people of the heart, creative heads and entertainment artists. And because we are all so different, we complete each other wonderfully!
Joachim Grittmann
Managing Director BITOU GmbH
What is the nicest thing about your job?
That we can share our own work experiences with other people and coach them! During the first lockdown in Spring 2020, I had a conversation with a colleague. His problem was that he was feeling lonely in home office. I said to him: “think about what would help you and develop a team training from this!” He did just that – and further developed our offer in a unique way.
Viola Grittmann
Head of commercial administration
What is your favourite team event and why?
HAKA – it means to overcome yourself, to just scream and allow the mimes to play out, stamp, try out threatening gestures. Sense yourself in a new way, perceive the positive energy and allow it to flow. This was an aha-experience for me!
Christine Hafenmair
Head of Sales
What is your favourite team event and why?
The soap box building and the race that follows. The classic one of the team events. It has all of the components which a team needs: building, creativity, fun, speed and action.
Anke Grittmann
Marketing
What is your favourite team event and why?
Online Criminal Dinner with cooking – because this event is so exciting and fun, the communication works amazingly well amongst the participants also online, and I love to cook and eat well. This event promotes the us-feeling in the team, even though everyone is at home and the event takes place online, it is a great, joint team experience.
Larissa Grathwol
Administration
What hobby do you bring to your job?
Up until recently, I could use my handy manual skills in our workshop. Now, holding out and stamina are required instead, until we reach normality in the event industry again. This reminds me of my week-long hike in the Himalajas with the many ups and downs.
Pia Kessler
Project manager & authorized signatory BITOU Süd GmbH
What is your favourite team event and why?
Online Crime Time – because it gives you such joy and enables people, despite the distance, to do something with each other and to strengthen the team spirit. The Crime Time is unbelievably amusing and the participants really get into the roles of trying to solve the crime.
Felix Neugebauer
Managing Director BITOU Süd GmbH
What was your nicest team experience?
My first own team event. The feedback from the participants reinforced my belief that I am in the right profession!
Sebastian Otte
Managing Director BITOU Nord GmbH
Which team event did you invent yourself?
At BITOU? Bosseln. As a northerner, I can boast that I taught southern Germany how to play boßeln. However, I didn’t invent the East Frisian national sport. For that, I would have had to be born a couple of decades earlier.
Marcus Richter
Team training & event management
What was your nicest/most impressionable team experience?
For me, supporting and accompanying the teams, and witnessing exciting developments are the nicest experiences in my profession. Special moments always arise when people surpass themselves, really confront themselves and establish that we aren’t so different to each other, despite the demanding situation. For this reason, Seneca’s statement has become my motto: “everything truly big materialises through a slow and almost unnoticeable growth”.
Rieke Hundertmark
Project management
What is your favourite team event and why?
Adventure Everest – the event inspires me anew every time. This strategic business game triggers a wide variety of impulses in the participants, which make it possible to refer specifically to parallels to everyday life and professional life. You can feel that something is happening in the minds of the mountaineers! This is the kind of feeling you like to come home with.
Dirk Lucht
Assistance to the management BITOU Nord GmbH
BITOU What hobby do you bring to your job?
For my family I like to organize scavenger hunts with lots of little puzzles. Of course, I’m also benefiting from my fiddling and designing at work now. And it’s fun on top of that.
Bea Trotter
Assistance to the management BITOU Süd GmbH
What is your favorite team event and why?
Rocket Science because there is so much interaction during the building of a rocket and you tinker and tinker together, which I personally totally like. After the rocket is finished, you still have the excitement of seeing whether the rocket actually flies. You just have a lot of fun.
Christine Lucht
Event management
What was your most impressionable team experience?
The shining eyes and laughing faces of the 25 kids with a migration background who were allowed to build a chain reaction as part of a student scholarship.
Through the event, we were able to show them the value of communication and team spirit.
Christine Weber
Sales
What would you describe yourself as in your job?
Good listener with spontaneous courageous solutions to challenges.
Julia Bebon-Störk
Sales
What was your best/most memorable team experience?
My most memorable team experience was one of my first in college when we “sacrificed” game characters represented by real fellow students in our team building because we didn’t think of sharing our information transparently with them. One of the best was the Christmas party with the BITOU team. Here we could get to know each other better in a great atmosphere during the joint online cooking and the quizzing afterwards.