Away Days, Workshops & ERG Events

Not everything important happens in the office. Some of the most significant moments in a company’s calendar take place in a new space, a different environment. Somewhere a team actually figures out how to tackle a challenging project, a changing world or collaborate with new partners. Those moments are gold, to see how a company evolves through challenges.

If you’re lucky enough to have a great venue, some tasty treats some deep coffee, it’ll be worth capturing. For yourselves, for your company, your culture, for your project. Keep the stakeholders on board, show-off on LinkedIn, a gallery for the podcast, get that news post out, something for the end-of-year wrap-up… plenty of reasons.

Employee Resource Groups

Employee Resource Groups deserve particular attention here. ERG events — whether that’s a panel discussion, a celebration, a awareness day, or a community gathering — are increasingly central to how progressive organisations demonstrate their values in practice rather than just in policy. Knowing when to be the wallflower standing back and allowing people do their things, and then knowing when a whoop and holler may be required to gee up the troops, for the wrap shot.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Your company culture matters, and the steps and work involved in getting that balance between goals, targets and Corporate Social Responsibility isn’t an easy one. When spending time and resources that all may not be able to see they’ll want to know from the communication team what went on, what they missed, and why they’ll want to be at the next one.

Done well, ERG photography produces images that mean something to the people in them. That carry weight internally as evidence of a culture that takes inclusion seriously. And that communicate externally to candidates, clients, and partners that this is an organisation that shows up for its people in concrete ways rather than aspirational ones.

Away Days are big resource and time investment. The photography should reflect that — something to show the board, share with the team, and put in the next culture deck with genuine pride.

And for the ‘gram.