Design Department Off-Site Creative Retreat
Brandon, Joe, Keal, Jeremy, Mike, Will, Dennis and Darren spent the afternoon in our yearly off-site creative meeting. We continued with tradition this year and held the meeting at the Orpheum Lofts board room. Then followed up with 8 tickets to the Phoenix Suns VS Los Angeles Lakers in Shaq’s 1st start as a Phoenix Sun.
The 5 hour retreat agenda consisted of Training, Company Updates, New Hire Feedback, Working Smarter Within Departments and ended with a Career Lifeline Exercise that shared a great insight on everyones path that lead them to bluemedia.
All of us knew that the best part of the half day workshop is the post-retreat Phx Suns game. So in preparation for the big game we made 3ft tall Shaq heads and Shaq-Fu cut out signs.
Needless to say walking around Us Airways Arena with giant Shaq heads and signs caught a lot of attention.
We were interviewed and photographed by every local radio and new station in town, and just about every fan at the game. Dennis was the Suns spoke person for the design team and fielded all of the questions from the media, like a pro.
So all in all we had a great meeting and even better post party. I have to say bluemedia truly values their employees and provides the best working environment for us creative designers. We are an award winning design team that collects many awards from the design, digital printing and advertising industry.
In closing, we like to set the bar high for ourselves and the other departments. It’s going to be hard topping this years Creative Retreat. Not only did we team build and learn how to work better and smarter as a department, but we made the front cover of the Arizona Republic Newspaper the following morning.
Now I call that a success!
Here is the Republic Article on AzCentral.com
The fun doesn’t stop after the game, Shaq makes his way into Seamus Mccaffrey’s