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Christmas is fast approaching 🎅. This is therefore the ideal time to plan fun activities, and thus strengthen the cohesion of your teams . Christmas evening, secret Santa, Advent calendar… There is no shortage of team building ideas for the month of December! But with the development of hybrid work , it is not always easy to bring your colleagues together for such activities.
To make your task easier, we have listed 7 examples of activities to strengthen the cohesion of your teams during the Christmas period, both in person and remotely (yes yes, both are possible!). These ideas are aimed at team managers , internal communications managers , office managers, but also at employees who wish to get involved in the organization of this type of activity.
Summary
- Organize a Christmas party
- Make a Secret Santa
- Propose an ugly Christmas sweater contest
- Create a virtual Advent calendar
- Decorate offices
- Host a culinary workshop
- Prepare a Christmas murder party
- Organize a Christmas party
The Christmas at work evening is probably one of the events most anticipated by employees, but also one of the most unifying. It can be organized in person , by planning a good meal and various activities (for example, a blind test, a photobooth, a competition, an escape game, a magic show, etc.). But it is also possible to adapt the Christmas evening to a hybrid or even 100% digital format.
Here are some ideas for activities to plan for your hybrid Christmas evening:
Have a great meal delivered to all your employees who cannot attend the evening in person
Offer a festive icebreaker by videoconference to kick off the discussions at the start of the evening (for example, sharing a Christmas anecdote, your favorite Christmas film, the most original Christmas gift you may have received, etc.).
Organize a competition for the best Christmas photo and have employees vote live (a videoconferencing tool and a smartphone, and it’s in your pocket!).
Take a quiz to test everyone’s knowledge about Christmas, by animating the discussions in an interactive way (it’s time to bring out your best Christmas jokes 😉).
Offer online karaoke , giving employees the opportunity to add the songs of their choice to the playlist.
Are you hesitating between several activities? Have your employees vote via a publication on your corporate social network to collect everyone’s opinion. It’s a good way to involve them in the organization of your Christmas evening, and thus make them want to participate on the big day.
10 examples of publications for your business social network
Make a Secret Santa
Secret Santa is also a good idea for an activity to strengthen the cohesion of your hybrid teams during the Christmas period. The concept: each employee offers a gift (of a value defined in advance) to one of their colleagues who they have drawn at random . The gift can therefore be intended for a colleague with whom he interacts regularly, or for a colleague whom he does not know.
The drawing of lots and the delivery of gifts can be done both remotely and in person. The only difference being the delivery part to be planned for teleworking employees (it will therefore be necessary to anticipate more so that everyone can receive their gift on time).
Another possibility: offer a 100% digital gift (for example, a gift card or a voucher for an activity), accompanied by a personalized note from the employee who gave it.
Once the gifts have been received, you can then organize a video conference to unwrap them live , and allow everyone to thank their assigned Santa.
Propose an ugly Christmas sweater contest
We’ve all already received a Christmas sweater… that we can only wear at Christmas (thanks grandma). Organizing an ugly Christmas sweater competition is a good way to make the most of this gift!
Ugly Christmas sweater competition to strengthen the cohesion of hybrid teams
No need for big organization, just ask your hybrid teams to wear their ugliest (or most kitsch) Christmas sweater during one of their workdays (if possible on December 17 , for the day international Christmas sweater).
You can then schedule a video conference so that everyone can vote for their favorite Christmas sweater , then offer a small reward to the winner. Santa hat, deer head with bells, souvenir photo frame, box of chocolates… It’s up to you to choose the gift that seems most kitsch to you, or opt for a more classic option.
Did you know ? Talkspirit allows you to organize polls, share GIFs and create side rooms during your video conferences . Enough to make your Christmas activities remotely easier!
Creation of breakout rooms on the Talkspirit videoconferencing module
Read also: Strengthening corporate cohesion with Talkspirit: the testimony of Food Emotion
Create a virtual Advent calendar
What if we told you that it was possible to create a 100% virtual Advent calendar ? Unlike the traditional Advent calendar, the virtual calendar is accessible to all employees, whether they are in the office or teleworking. It is therefore the ideal tool to strengthen the cohesion of hybrid teams during the Christmas period!
You can opt for different types of calendars, for example:
A calendar focused on internal communication
Use this calendar to share fun or informative content every day about your business or a topic related to your activity (for example, a video, a quiz, an article, a podcast, an interview, etc.). Depending on the resources at your disposal, you can choose to share internal content (made by internal communications and/or employees) or external content, or a mixture of the two.
