Summer Picnic team retreat! Borrowed our office’s fake trees for dressing up conference stages, draped the tables and chairs in “wood,” and loaded up the side table with fruit, cold cuts, potato chips, pies, and old-fashioned sodas. Everyone got a dollar-store flower pen and notebook re-covered in woodgrain shelf paper. Plus plastic bugs on the table, ’cause it ain’t a picnic without ants! Just add 7 brilliant colleagues for 3 hours and you get awesome outreach strategy, a positive midyear goals check-in, and hopefully a happy team. Yay!