Past Event - Company Summer Outing 2007

So back in 2007 I was an intern at the GCI Group (which has since merged with Cohn & Wolfe Public Relations). My supervisor at the time gave me great freedom in the area of planning fun events for the company. I started out coordinating the monthly off-site happy hours, then moved onto starting the "Newbie" parties (monthly on-site happy hours where we would celebrate all the newly hired employees). I had been an intern there beginning in September of 2006 and in the summer of 2007 I was assigned a major task - coordinate the company summer outing for 150 employees. This required me to:

• Find a venue


• Negotiate pricing


• Send out invitations (they were designed by our Creative department, I just sent them out)


• Collect and track all RSVP's (keeping them up to date until that very afternoon!)


• Find a bus company to bring all 150 employees to venue location
  
• Choose the menu (keeping those with dietary restrictions in mind)
  
• Create a signature drink (using the cognac of one of our clients as an ingredient)


• Order leis (as we had a tropical theme for the event)


• Coordinate transportation for leadership team so they could arrive before the other employees so they could greet them (they would greet them with the leis to thank them for all their hard work for the year so far)

And did I mention the "venue" was actually a yacht?! Yes, we had a cruise around Manhattan and it was GREAT! The weather was perfect, the food was delicious, the DJ kept us on the dance floor, and the drinks were flowing! Below are some pictures of the event.