Smile, Click, Strategy! Two days packed full of team spirit, powder and visions
There are days that just don’t feel like work – more like a good entry in the team diary. At the end of May, Westfield Rise had two of these special days, showing in very different ways what makes us the team we are.
When our Düsseldorf HQ becomes a catwalk, the office dog becomes an unrivalled camera queen and spontaneous sartorial synergies happen, you know a photo shoot’s happening at Westfield Rise! Once again, the outstanding harmony among our Gang members came to the fore.
Without prior consultation, almost everyone turned up in a harmonious combination of beige and black – almost too perfect to be a coincidence. Even the photographer was impressed by so much subconscious style strutting. From individual shots to our big Gang pic – the day flew by in a storm of flashbulbs, accompanied by the omnipresent shouts of “Shoulders back!” and “Powder please!”.
Office dog Yuna, a natural born model, was right in the middle of it all, with her nonchalance bringing the right amount of fun to the shoot – and all without a single treat! The results are impressive – click here for photographic evidence of our modelling skills.
From bulb flashes to brain flashes
Then suddenly it was time for a change of perspective. as we convened at Westfield Ruhr Park in Bochum the following day for our quarterly team meeting where we cast our eyes back and to the future, reflecting in a series of intensive sessions on developments in the first half of the year, and laying strategic foundations for the months ahead, asking ourselves what worked well and where we could be more efficient, more creative or better networked.
Of course, engaging person-to-person was also a must, and between brainstorming blocks we laughed, chatted and spun new ideas over lunch together. To round off the day, there was an exclusive tour of Westfield Ruhr Park with Janina Cho, the centre’s Deputy General Manager.
At the end of two jam-packed and exciting days, we were strategically more in tune and had also grown even closer as a team. Ready for what the future has to throw at us!