Company Outing 2022: A great event with a focus on team building, exchange and fun!

As a team, we spent three days together from 28 April to 30 April at a sports and conference hotel in Werl. There, both business workshops and entertaining yet educational workshops took place, focusing on team building and personal development. Personality plays just as important a role for us as the professional delivery of projects. The event was organised by

Colleagues from the team, who were given plenty of scope in shaping the programme and choosing the accommodation.

On the very first day, the workshop focused on how we can position ourselves as an even better and more attractive employer, both externally and internally. The first day was rounded off with smaller sessions within the individual teams, each designed individually by the team leaders. The joint dinner kicked off the cross-departmental networking, which was further intensified over a cold drink or two at the bowling alley. After a few hours' sleep, the next morning brought company updates from our managing director Joubin, before we discussed ways to optimise the office and home office situation together in the second workshop.

Of course, fun was never in short supply! From a poker workshop to football in the soccer hall to a "fit in the home office" workshop, there was something for everyone. Between these workshops, you could decide which one to attend in each block. In the poker workshop, our poker expert showed us how to analyse our fellow players' behaviour and use the insights gained to our advantage.

After lunch, various parallel workshops were once again on offer, such as insights into consumer psychology in everyday life, how to conduct feedback conversations properly, and can-beer yoga. In the consumer psychology workshop, we learned how we are influenced in everyday consumer situations and which cognitive biases from behavioural economics are responsible for this, with these biases explaining irrational behaviour.

In the "Conducting feedback conversations properly" workshop, we were given tips and practical examples for holding feedback conversations. In a role play, spontaneous feedback conversations were held, which were then constructively assessed and improved together.

The "can-beer yoga" workshop also took place. It's a reimagined and humorous take on regular yoga, with plenty of canned beer involved. Even our more sceptical colleagues had a lot of fun with it. We spent the rest of the evening together over cold drinks at the bowling alley or at the Mario Kart tournament.

On Saturday, our last day, a workshop on quality management was on the agenda. A working group gave a talk on clean coding, coding conventions and static code analysis, and worked through various aspects interactively in groups. The morning was rounded off with a feedback session on the event.

We had a great deal of fun and value the cross-team exchange, especially after such a long time during which we couldn't meet our (new) colleagues in person. Not only the prompt implementation of the results from the individual business workshops, but also the generous scope given for shaping the event and the personal exchange among colleagues reflect synaigy's everyday working culture. The team event strengthens internal cohesion on both a personal and professional level. We're already looking forward to the next one, hopefully with you too!