The challenge
Onboarding 160 people at once is a logistics problem before it is a culture problem. The company's HR team wanted the administrative orientation to be followed by a day that showed the new hires what the company expects of a team: openness, motivation and a willingness to change how they work.
What we ran
A full day outdoors, built as a ladder. The Great Egg Drop on the ground, then the Mohawk Walk on the low ropes, then the Flying Squirrel on the high ropes, where a team hoists one of its own forty feet into the trees. Each stage asks for more trust than the one before.
Event day
By the afternoon, groups that had met that morning were belaying each other. The debrief tied every stage back to how the company wants its teams to plan, communicate and commit.
The result
The company made the day its standing orientation program, run every year for every new-hire class.
