Find the perfect experience in a few steps
Start over[Customize!] First success story
Take a cohort photo at a place or with an artifact that represents an early company win (the first product, the first customer logo, the first office). (Organizers: pick the actual place, item or story and tell the cohort what they are looking for.)
[Customize!] Founders' welcome
Take a creative cohort photo that represents how your founders or leadership welcome new starters. (Organizers: replace this with a video clip from a founder, a trivia question about the founding team, or a photo prompt at a meaningful spot.)
[Customize!] Mission moment
As a cohort, interpret the company mission in one staged photo: each person can play a different role, prop, or symbol. (Organizers: replace this with a prompt referencing your specific mission statement, a defining customer story, or a real example of the mission in action.)
Coffee migration
Migrate the entire cohort to the coffee machine at the same time. Take a photo of the queue (and the look on the regulars' faces).
Cohort kick-off jump
Day one is here. Get the whole cohort in one shot, all jumping at the same time. Everyone needs to be off the ground or it does not count.
Cohort meeting room takeover
Pile every cohort member into one meeting room. Group photo, faces visible, smaller room is funnier.
Cohort superlatives
Vote on cohort superlatives ("most likely to stay late", "first to lead a project", "most snacks consumed"). Photograph the winner of the funniest category mid-acceptance speech.
Color theme day
As a cohort, agree on one color. Tomorrow, everyone wears something in that color. Take a group photo to prove it.
Cross-functional explorers
Each cohort member finds one colleague from a department different from theirs. Bring all those colleagues into one shared photo. The wider the spread of teams, the better.
Department dispatch
Each cohort member visits a different department for five minutes and takes a photo with someone from that team. Regroup and lay all the photos side by side.
End-of-day cohort photo
Big group photo of the cohort at the end of the first day. Each person shares a one-word reaction to day one. Write the words next to the photo.
Fact frenzy
Discover one surprising fact about every other person in the cohort. Write them all on a whiteboard, sticky notes or a piece of paper, then photograph the result.
Lunch tribes
Split the cohort across different lunch tables. No two cohort members at the same table. Each person takes a photo of their group, then combine the shots into one collage.
Name circle
Stand in a circle as a cohort. Each person introduces themselves with their name and one surprising fact. Photograph the moment someone shares the most unexpected one.
Office mascot hunt
Hunt for the unofficial office mascot: a stuffed animal, a plant with a name, an inside-joke artifact. Group photo of the cohort with it.
The improvised flag
Build a makeshift "cohort flag" or symbol from whatever office supplies you can find: tape, paper, sticky notes, a chair. Take a photo of the cohort with it.
The lineup
As a cohort, line up in order of birth month without saying a word. Take a photo of the result. Argue afterwards.
Two truths and a lie
Play one round of two truths and a lie as a cohort. Photograph the moment someone is unmasked as the liar (their face is the prize).
Veteran encounter
Find the longest-tenured colleague you can today. Get the whole cohort in a group photo with them and ask for one piece of advice everyone can write down.
Whiteboard signatures
Find a whiteboard. Every cohort member signs or draws something on it. Photograph the result before someone wipes it.