Our ORISA sum­mer par­ty on the MS Team­geist

Anyo­ne who thought that soft­ware deve­lo­pers & co. only build digi­tal solu­ti­ons has not yet expe­ri­en­ced our sum­mer par­ty. With woo­den boards, corks, a hot glue gun and ple­nty of team spi­rit, we built model boats on our annu­al team day, pushed each other off the SUP and show­ed just how well we work tog­e­ther when away from our desks.

Team event at the boat­house

We star­ted with a few per­so­nal words from our CEO: he than­ked the enti­re team for their com­mit­ment over the past few months and con­gra­tu­la­ted our trai­nees who had just suc­cessful­ly com­ple­ted their exams. A won­derful moment that show­ed what is important to us: col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, reco­gni­ti­on and team spi­rit. Tho­se who wan­ted to let off steam had the choice bet­ween vol­ley­ball, table ten­nis or wob­bly SUP duels (inclu­ding a fri­end­ly push into the cool water).

Model boats were built in ran­dom­ly mixed groups as part of team chal­lenges, with ple­nty of impro­vi­sa­ti­on talent and even more crea­ti­ve results. From the maje­s­tic ‘MS Tür­ta­nic’ to “ORI­Saa­le”, ‘Die Flot­te Bie­ne’ and ‘Han­ni­bal the fas­test ORISANER’ to the no-frills ‘boat’, ever­y­thing was included. The sea­wort­hi­ness was tes­ted and cele­bra­ted at the grand fina­le.

The­re were also games of skill with ropes, pipes and balls, which were some­ti­mes less about sport­ing ele­gan­ce and more about stra­te­gic cha­os. The tasks could only be mas­te­red with good con­sul­ta­ti­on, trust and a litt­le crea­ti­vi­ty. Stra­te­gies were dis­cus­sed, roles were assi­gned, some­ti­mes thin­king out loud, some­ti­mes impro­vi­sing and often laug­hing tog­e­ther when the plan did­n’t quite work out as plan­ned. But tha­t’s exact­ly the appeal of our team buil­ding: you get to know your col­le­agues in a com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent way, help each other out and are even hap­pier when ever­y­thing works out in the end.

From SUP to steak: the sum­mer par­ty enters round two

The after­noon con­tin­ued smooth­ly with the tra­di­tio­nal fami­ly sum­mer par­ty in the ORISA gar­den. Here we ser­ved up food, bar­be­cued and chat­ted. Ever­yo­ne brought some­thing to share, from pas­ta salad to home­ma­de bread. While the child­ren (and, to be honest, many adults too) enthu­si­a­sti­cal­ly pain­ted rocks with acrylic paints at the craft sta­ti­on, peo­p­le tal­ked, laug­hed and bond­ed across team boun­da­ries.

What we will remem­ber is a day full of litt­le high­lights and ever­y­thing we value about ORISA: Team spi­rit, good humour, genui­ne tog­e­ther­ness. And the rea­li­sa­ti­on that you don’t neces­s­a­ri­ly have to sit at a desk to crea­te some­thing gre­at (or at least some­thing that floats) tog­e­ther.

We’­re alre­a­dy loo­king for­ward to next time. 🌞