Fresh air. A break from screen fatigue. No grating sounds leaking over your cubicle’s wall. Being outside with colleagues can provide a way to rub elbows with the C-suite as well as a stress-free space to take out a pen and commit your best ideas to paper. 

Whether you’re brainstorming ideas for a company’s new logo in the park, discussing the pending merger on a sailboat, or mulling where to have the company retreat while on a sunny restaurant patio, pack along pens, notebooks, multicolored index cards and pocket folders.