Customer Needs
As a warm-up before a big corporate dinner, how Fun Bay turned an afternoon event into a full night of team atmosphere.
We clearly understood that the team needed more than just icebreakers to create natural interactions that would keep our foreign partners happy and engaged, and carry over into the team experience at the dinner.
Lok Fu Wan Planning
From our perspective, One Ocean City epitomizes the team.
So we designed the activity as:
- Each group is assigned a different "ship model".
- Each group must first discuss "what we want to present."
- All the pieces will be tied together at the end.
Through these processes, members are engaged in discussion, creation, and understanding of the connection between "I" and "we" in the city's connectivity.
After the official start, we went to each table to observe our partners. One of our partners put the blocks in the opposite direction several times, and our colleague at the same table could not help but laugh, and he laughed along with us:
“Just laughing together made everything smoother.”
When partners interact in a relaxed way, the distance between them begins to shrink. Laughter is always the switch for teamwork.
Another group's tabletop was more like a small engineering site, with people building cranes, warehouses, lighthouses, and making sea turtles.
During the interview, they said:
“We didn't even plan the big picture -- yet the vessel still came together.”
This statement is actually the objective of our design of this activity.
Because in large corporations, that's often the case:
- Partners focus on what they're doing.
- Departments focusing on different directions, decentralized operations
But at the end of the day, only "together" can accomplish it, and they really see the dedication to each other in the moment.
Results and Feedback
Twelve groups of decentralized creations are brought to the center stage, and this is the moment we look forward to most in every LEGO Workshop.
As they build a complete bridge, the team's vibe picks up.
We see:
A normally quiet colleague becomes active after being seen in the work.
The partners, who didn't know each other, sat down together and laughed about what they had just created.
All the differences are justified and all the corners of the work become an integral part of it.
At first, everything seemed separate. But once connected, we discovered what we can truly achieve-together.
Because of it:
✔ Allow unfamiliar coworkers to have natural conversations
✔ Engage people across cultures and generations
✔ Have the team "cook" before they eat
✔ Create an emotional base for the entire dinner party.
✔ Give the event a "story" and the dinner a "continuation"
For us, warming up is a strategy to warm up the atmosphere of the team.
Lok Fu Wan believes:
When people start creating, they naturally work together. When each person finds his or her own piece of the puzzle, the team finds a way forward.
On this day, 150 people came together to complete their own One Ocean City - a one ocean city.
