A remote team, a shared gratitude, and two bikes for kids named Lionel & Jocelyn.
How a fully virtual ‘Count Your Blessings’ Team Workout gave a distributed Lenovo team the same lump-in-the-throat give-back moment our in-person builds are known for — delivered entirely over video.
Lenovo’s team was distributed and fully remote — they couldn’t gather in person, but they still wanted a meaningful, bonding, give-back experience. The kind of moment that usually only happens when a room full of colleagues share it shoulder to shoulder.
We ran a fully virtual ‘Count Your Blessings’ Team Workout — a multi-week gratitude program over Zoom, with breakout rooms and a facilitator in every room. The core idea is simple and powerful: you cannot be grateful and frustrated at the same time. Gratitude interrupts the negative spiral and builds resilience across four areas — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Week 1 (about 50 minutes) introduced gratitude as a ritual the team came to call ‘Blessings’ — CYB, Count Your Blessings. Between sessions, Be Legendary donated a bike to a local child and filmed the moment. Week 2 (about 30 minutes) revealed that the team’s counted blessings had ‘earned’ bikes for kids — shown on video — then set a gratitude ‘homework’ challenge to earn another bike for a child they’d never meet.
Lenovo’s remote team gave bikes to two siblings, Lionel and Jocelyn, who had no idea it was coming. It was the same lump-in-the-throat reveal our in-person builds are known for — only this time, distance didn’t dull the moment. It arrived, whole and unforgettable, over video.
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Lionel and Jocelyn had no idea.
Two kids, two bikes, one remote team that will never forget the day. Watch the moments the team earned — and see why virtual doesn’t mean impersonal.
Lionel had no idea
The bike Lenovo’s team earned through their counted blessings — given to Lionel, who didn’t know it was coming.
And so did Jocelyn
Lionel’s sister Jocelyn was just as surprised — the team’s gratitude homework, delivered to a child they’d never meet.
Virtual, but never impersonal.
We’ve designed emotionally charged virtual experiences since long before it was the only option. Gratitude gave the Lenovo team a shared language, breakout rooms gave them a place to use it, and the give-back gave it a purpose bigger than the call.
- ✓Gratitude over frustration — you can’t feel both at once, so gratitude builds resilience.
- ✓Facilitated in every room — a real facilitator in each breakout, not a passive webinar.
- ✓Impact that reaches the community — the counted blessings become bikes for real kids.
It’s the same philosophy behind TeamwoRx and our ongoing programs and our charity team building — and it works across our full range of team building experiences. Want to see how it lands? Watch more videos.
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Distance doesn’t dull the moment. Let’s design a virtual give-back experience your distributed team will never forget.