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Biggest thing this year - giving people the opportunity to get to know each other and build the team.  Generate more comfort with colleagues.

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We have people who just joined the team and others who have just merged with our team - blending the team is a big thing. So they don't feel like the 10 of them vs the rest of us.

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Discuss the RSJI summary report, the findings and things like that.

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Work/life balance (talked about it in the virtual retreat). Being able to turn off and leave work when you leave work.

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The office is partially reopening - having time to talk about what we're doing as a region. What's expected. Talked about having a certain day that people are coming in. Clarity around expectations.

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Walter is our VP but hearing from other senior leaders on the team (directors and other senior managers). Walter deserves a break.

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Having guided discussions, talk about expectations or projections for the year. Career direction, short term work, new assignments - plotting out what's available and opportunities to get involved.

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Explore some of the challenges as junior staff - holding the company accountable mentioned and pulled out in the report. The process we've been trying to go through as a company. Making DAI more equitable. How do we hold the company accountable for the recommendations in the report. Retreat is a good opportunity to do that.

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Tackling some of the challenges that we've experienced during the pandemic. Work/life balance. Managing communication. Talking through some of the challenges. Finding solutions for moving forward.

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What can we stop, start and continue as it relates to working virtually.

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More transparency in decision making. Assignments that they didn't want or ask for, challenges with leadership.

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Hard for BD team to ask delivery folks for help when they're already busy. Did spot trainings to build capacity. Would be good to know from our side to know how to best facilitate support with new business, what trainings are needed, help us help you.

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Used to be if there was a short term assignment, we'd travel and be out of the office - obvious to everyone. Now we're doing everything remotely (benefits and costs). Doing a close out, have a dedicated scope of work. Before I'd be out of sight out of mind. Now, I'm here, I'm present, my green light is on. Becomes harder to remove yourself from what you're working on. True for new business also. More challenging to carve out the space when working remotely. Being able to talk about this and see if there are better ways to address and manage this.

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During the pandemic and in general. A lot of people moved around or quit. Hard to know who's taking on the work or who's replaced. Figure out who's doing what after people leave.

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I learned during the last few years is that Walter is pretty approachable on questions and concerns. Can go to him with big issues that need to be addressed.

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Been at DAI for 5 years... Learning plans and orientation and things like that have changed and being onboarded now seem difficult. It's a lot different now when people start. Need to be a little more patient.

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Culture at DAI... With the remote thing, we need to figure out how to convey a sense of the organizational culture and our people. don't know that we've found a good way to do that in the remote world. You can't take the culture for granted. Need to figure out a way to promote that.

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In person we were fun and funny - now it's not all there because we're not all together. Don't have the opportunities to connect in the same ways. Walter has tried (i.e. Best thing this week). Enjoy talking to each other about non work stuff too.

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When you're in a remote setting, you have to be a lot more intentional about what and how you're communicating. Learned to be more intentional.

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Have us doing something more than just talking. Hands on activities that will build the bond that we talked about earlier.

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In past retreats or trainings, you're given ice breakers or things to work on with people you don't know. Awkward silences and given too much time. It's just weird. No awkward silences.

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Good food

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A marker of success - the newer people leaving feeling like they're part of the team, have resources that they can go to fo x problem, feel like they know people better.

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Some serious, work related conversations that need to be discussed AND some fun time together too.

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Played among us at the virtual retreat - was fun to see the other side of people.

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The BD retreat, they had table topics cards. If you're sitting with random people you don't know and there's an awkward silence - started to bring out random things that you wouldn't normally talk about.

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Beyond the normal things like baby pictures, two truths and a lie, etc.

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Interacting with people from other sectors.

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Would be nice to do something company wide that would give us the opportunity to meet people outside of the sector.

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Swag bags.

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Table questions - something targeted that could be fun.

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No MBTI

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Get us up and moving around