Event recap · Team building
fairlife IT & Finance: Corporate Survivor, Then Dinner on the Beach
October 2023 · 56 guests · Lifeguard Tower 28, Ocean Park, Santa Monica
fairlife's IT & Finance team was in Santa Monica in October 2023 and spent a full afternoon on the sand at Lifeguard Tower 28. First came a Corporate Survivor team-building program run by TeamBonding, with the group split into six teams. Then everyone came off the competition and into dinner on the beach with us.
We set the picnic for 56 guests, with two canopies shading four buffet tables for a dinner delivered from Mendocino Farms. A live DJ played through the evening, and a Bose speaker with a microphone was on hand for announcements. For anyone who still had energy after Survivor, we set out three cornhole sets, three ladder toss sets, Spikeball and bocce. The chalkboard read "Welcome fairlife IT & Finance."
Pairing a structured team-building activity with a picnic works well: the activity breaks the ice, and dinner gives people time to actually talk afterward.