CHALLENGES

#1: Bringing everyone together to build a successful law firm is difficult to do. It requires building a unified culture, having clear communication, and working together towards one goal. This challenge will test those things. Get to any grassy outdoor space and take a video of your team completing the Group Sit & Stand Challenge. Basically, your team members will all be standing shoulder to shoulder in a tight clump/circle with your backs all facing in and your arms interlocked. Slowly lower the entire interlocked group to the ground until you are in a seated position with your butts on the ground, and then slowly stand all the way back up while remaining interlocked the entire time. To watch a video of a group successfully completing this challenge click HERE.

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#2: Portland is known for it’s natural beauty and people that love to get out into it. So a challenge doing yoga in a park won’t be that weird, right? Find the world famous park seen HERE, which was built after a local columnist caught a leprechaun in it (ok, getting weirder). Once you’ve found it, take a picture of your entire team all completing any variation of the "Tree Pose" while balancing atop the concrete circle that surrounds the park. To view a picture of someone properly performing a variation of the Tree Pose click HERE.

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#3: After two years of building and growing a successful law firm you all have likely used Scotch Tape for just about everything. Well, except this. To honor this incredibly versatile American-made product take a fun team picture after everyone uses Scotch tape to dramatically stretch and distort their faces. To create the proper distortion you’ll need at least 5 pieces of tape per face, although the more the better! For some inspiration click HERE.

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#4: At the core of MWCC is a community of people who are uniquely dedicated to providing clients with the personal attention that only a boutique firm can provide. This can only be achieved by listening to the people you provide services for and understanding the stories that make them who they are. Take a video of your team and any stranger that has a tattoo while they explain what that tattoo means to them or why they got it. The tattoo must be visible at some point during the video.

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#5: Get every team member a large (16 ounces or so) open-top paper, plastic, or foam cup and fill it with water. Then somewhere outdoors, line up shoulder to shoulder and have each team member balance a full cup on their head. Once everyone’s cups are balanced, hold hands with the team members on either side of you and take a video of your team working together to all take 10 steps forward without anyone touching their own cup (or another team member’s cup) or having it spill. If someone’s cup spills make sure to encourage them and then refill any spilled cups and start again as a team. After your team successfully travels 10 steps together dump the cups to prove they were full, and celebrate!

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#6: Tomorrow is Flag Day here in the US, as well as the Army’s 247th birthday. Anywhere around the area find an active military person or a veteran. They could be wearing some form of military or veteran attire, have a military ID, or they could simply describe their military background while you’re completing your challenge. Then take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups, sit-ups, or jumping jacks to honor their strength and courage. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service as a small gesture of appreciation.

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#7: Anytime after 11am (when the store opens), get your team to Rocket Fizz soda and candy shop (535 SW 6th Ave). Once there, purchase one bottle of their novelty soda flavor called “Ranch Dressing”. Then ask their staff for a small paper/plastic cup for each team member and get someone to film your team pouring some of the drink into each team member’s cup, and everyone taking a large swig of the drink at the same time. Unless you are one of the rare few who find the concept of condiment flavored soda both refreshing and innovative, this may not be pleasant. But that’s exactly the point, because a group that suffers together, grows together.

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#8: Anywhere around the area, find an establishment that has an animal in it's name and take a fun team picture with everyone posing or acting like that specific animal while the establishment’s signage is clearly visible in the background. Please note you’re looking for a place with the animal in it’s actual name such as "The Friendly Giraffe" and not a place that lists an animal as something that is served there such as "Hattie B's Hot Chicken".

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#9: Take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge. Divide your team into pairs. Have one person from the pair squirt a small lump of whipped cream onto the back of their hand. That person should launch the whipped cream to their partner using the “arm catapult” technique seen in the video HERE. The second person should successfully catch the whipped cream in their mouth, or at least catch some of it in their mouth and the rest on their face. To complete this challenge at least half your team should make a successful catch in the video.

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#10: Get to any clothing or apparel store and find two different items with enough in stock that every team member can be wearing the same two items in their own sizes. Then take a fun team picture with everyone wearing those items. For example it may be a wacky shirt, and a pair of shorts. Or maybe some cozy slippers and a large sun hat. As long as everyone is wearing the same exact two items but in their own sizes.

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#11: Finding a tall businessman in a suit is not overly difficult when you work for MWCC. Finding one elsewhere around the city can be tougher. Even though the 6’10” businessman seen HERE has lived here for 39 years some diehard Portlanders might think he’s not from here because of one reason. After all, a 2017 poll by The Oregonian found that 70% of long time residents don’t do what this businessman does. Find him here in the city and take a fun team picture showing him some love for being a little different. Because isn’t that what this city is all about?

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#12: In 1850, Portland was a community of 600 folks. The streets were rutted and muddy, and lined with single-story wooden buildings that burned like straw. That year, Pioneer Fire Engine Company #1 was founded. It was a little better than a bucket brigade, with a volunteer force of 37 men wearing red shirts with a single hand pump.  For three years, the “red shirts” responded to any fire in the city, from a shattered oil lamp to dropped embers from the hearth. To honor the brave firefighters that have protected this city over the years, and protect it currently, take a video of your team completing "Stop, Drop, and Roll" while any regulation/operable fire extinguisher is visible in the background. Be sure to yell each step of the fire safety technique as you all do it together and make sure the fire extinguisher is clearly visible at some point in your video.

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#13: Find a postcard that features this area in some way, or a fun greeting card, and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Love For Our Elders project, which is focused on fighting loneliness with love, one letter at a time. As a team, choose someone from their list whose story or background resonates with you. Then on your card include a fun or uplifting message and sign it. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness and then drop it in the mail along the way or after your event ends.

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#14: Later this week we will celebrate Father’s Day, which was originally inspired by a young girl whose father was a Civil War vet and raised 14 children on his own after becoming a widow. To honor the great men everywhere that deserve our praise take a video of your team members hugging or high-fiving any male who is pushing a stroller around town as you give him words of encouragement such as "we believe in you", "you're awesome", "you're doing a great job", etc. Make sure your video shows the stroller at some point, although the child doesn’t need to be recorded.

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#15: Over the years, we’ve found that the teams that bond the most are the ones that do something meaningful or impactful together. So here is your chance. June is National Cancer Survivor Month and today is Random Acts Of Light Day, which encourages us to do a random act of kindness to bring light into the life of someone suffering from cancer. To honor those, and their families, who are impacted by cancer, take a proud team picture flashing your hands once every member of your team has gotten their fingernails painted bright pink (the international color for breast cancer survivors) using real nail polish. For every team that completes this challenge successfully and emails us the picture, our company (Team Building Anywhere) will be donating $25 to the local charity called Pink Lemonade Project. Read more about this great organization by clicking HERE.

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