The Bobby Cox Companies, owners of three restaurant franchises across Texas brought together 40 of the General Managers and District Managers from Rosa’s Café’s for a charity team-building event- Build-A-Bike. Throughout two hours of activities the participants worked together, laughed together and got to see one another in a little different than normal situations. The result was a fun and entertaining afternoon which culminated in 6 children from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Fort Worth receiving brand new bikes. The time working through team building activities and solving problems, puzzles and answering questions; working together to finish tasks and reward deserving children made for an afternoon that will belong remembered.

Companies often use competition to try and get the best efforts form their employees. The Bobby Cox Companies have learned a secret to competition; it can often be destructive. If competition creates an atmosphere of doing your personal best to make a positive difference and impact within the company, it can be a positive thing. But too often the competition causes damage to individuals and the company.

When the competition breeds activities that cause people, or divisions, special groups to withhold information that would be good for others, then the competition has become destructive. If an activity is good for one part of an organization, but hurts another, the overall organization has suffered. Even if one group “wins” the larger picture is that the company has lost.

Bobby Cox Companies brought their leaders from Rosa’s Café’s together to reiterate that important point, have fun, and build bicycles for deserving children. The theme for their meetings was “Making THE Difference. In this team building event they experienced how making THE difference on your team, can make THE difference for the company, and, in this case, THE difference for 6 very special children.

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