by Steph Bailey
27 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
5 nights. 19 legends. 2 Workshops. 4 team dinners. 1 Quarterly Champion. 129 games of Uno. 35 pool cocktails. 19 rounds of golf. 62 sets of tennis. 1 Bachelor in Paradise puzzle...
An Inlight team trip has been embedded in the Inlight culture since inception, as a way to give back to our dedicated team. Here's a collection of some reflections from our team on our time together in Fiji.
Trying to choose new places each trip, this time the Inlight team jetted off on an early morning flight to Fiji. Arriving 5:30am to Tullamarine, and touching down in Fiji at 9pm #fijitime after an emergency diversion through Brisbane, the team were ready for the tropics!
We celebrate this time with our team together. The opportunity to connect in a different way, spending time getting to know our colleagues on a more personal level and creating memories together. It's not all beaches and cocktails; through a period of growth and change over the past 12 months as we transitioned CEO's and evolved our strategy, this was the culmination of all the hard work the team put in during that period. Resilience. Our team are highly resilient and we embrace and reward that.
Co Founder
Our values exercise was one that we'd done as a Leadership team at our strategy offsite earlier in the year. It was a really fantastic exercise to extend to the broader team and help understand what drives each of them. Talking about what our core values are, and how we represent those, either successfully or could do better, they allowed us to learn even more about each other and have an appreciation for what differences and similarities exist between us. Often it's quite daunting to list off your values, so Mark managed to make it bite size, by giving the team an existing list of personal values to help individual narrow down what was important to them.
Personally, having a new team member in my team, I was excited to get to spend some time getting to know her, as well as spend time with the broader team. Flexible working is fantastic, but I tend to miss out on some of the social element on Fridays by how I choose to structure my 4 day week. Meaning I don't get a chance to end the week over a laugh and a beer, and often a board game! Major highlights for me were centred around getting to know the team on a more personal level, team dinners and the new games I got to learn and play with the gang! Not to mention the games evenings in my hotel room with 19 of the team squeezing in, with two games stations setup organically!
Lowlights include James Irving's feet tucked into my doona next to my pillow...
Looking for a good game? We played a lot of these!
Steph is a digital marketer with over 15 years digital experience. Steph works closely with all our wonderful clients, including Nando's, ahm, Swisse, Benetas and many others. A strategic thinker with a strong empathy for her client’s business objectives, Steph has excelled in leading multifunctional teams to achieve exceptional results on large-scale digital projects.
"One thing I'd tell my younger self is not to get caught up in the comparison trap! Run your own race."
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