We are BITOU

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.

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!

Planetary Saga: “Change is the only constant in life” – a famous quote from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Only everyone deals with change differently. Based on John Kotter’s change studies, this event is an excellent way to understand the tendencies in one’s own decision making or that of individual teams in change processes. Especially the immensely important change communication at the right time is trained in a playful way. Try it out!

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.

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.

Erich Kästner once said, “There is nothing good unless you do it.” I follow this quote in my actions and am happy every day to be able to give people impulses. Not because I know everything better, I learn as much in every training as my participants. Being able to help a team or company on the way to a more positive team culture and more constructive communication feels right to me and is a good thing that I can do and that we do every day at BITOU.

Seeing how the potential of participants develops when they take on a team task. A small impulse set in the right place can already have a big impact on a team. What excites me about this is what happens when a team decides to continue the process that has been initiated. In the last few years, “regular clients” have established themselves with me, who always want to be tested and reminded of what is important in good teamwork.

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.

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”.

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.

Good listener with spontaneous courageous solutions to challenges.

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.

My recent entry into BITOU. To start, we went on a hike together through the beautiful mountains of the Kaiserstuhl. There was a lot of laughter and we simply had fun! The welcome into the team, was human and warm. What BITOU stands for is also lived. Team development takes place continuously here.

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.

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.

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.