If you’ve been noticing a few more yawns than usual around the office, it might be time to plan your next team outing. Corporate events are one of the best ways to show your appreciation for your staff, as well as provide them with the opportunity to bond with each other, reduce their stress levels and even increase productivity back at work. Most importantly, you’re helping to create a healthy workplace culture that shows a commitment to the well-being of its employees. To make sure your next office function is a hit, try out one of these six fun ideas:
Throw a Party
Nothing brings people together like good food, music and a few drinks (if they’re so inclined). For an exciting corporate event, hire out a trendy local venue and treat your team to some delicious finger food and an open bar. To spice things up, you can look into extras like hookah hire, a photobooth, a live band, or roving magician.
Scavenger Hunt
Splitting your employees into groups and asking them to complete wacky challenges together is a fantastic team-building exercise, and makes for a guaranteed day of fun. If you’re not sure how to go about constructing your own scavenger hunt, a quick Google search will reveal plenty of apps and software that can do it for you – some even make use of augmented reality.
Paintball
As well as being ridiculously fun, a game of paintball requires team members to strategize and work together for a chance of victory. Your employees will be sure to make some fantastic memories and get their adrenaline pumping after a day on the field – just keep an eye on those with a competitive streak!
Picnic
Getting out of the office and enjoying some fresh air will do wonders for your staff’s morale, and what better way to do it than with a picnic? Encourage your team members to bring their favorite snacks to share, supply some drinks, and have an afternoon well spent in a local park or botanic garden. To take it up a notch, host your picnic in conjunction with a winery tour. Just make sure to hire transport or have designated drivers on hand for the aftermath.
Escape Room
Escape rooms are the latest craze, and with good reason – they’re fun, require people to use their lateral thinking skills, and also make for an ideal team-building exercise. With plenty of themes to choose from such as escaping a zombie apocalypse, solving a murder mystery, or breaking out of a jail cell, you’ll be sure to find an option that the whole team can get behind.
Take a Class
For an experience your employees won’t forget, book them into a class. Whether it’s painting or cooking, your staff will be able to learn new skills while spending quality time getting to know each other (or laughing at each other’s creations). If your finances permit, you can even make the class a regular occurrence should your employees give positive feedback.
Looking after your employees by treating them to entertaining events may seem like a waste of company time and dollars, but in truth offers many benefits. When you show your staff that you care about creating a positive company culture, they’ll be more inclined to put in the hard yards at work and have higher job satisfaction. So, mark a date in your calendar and get planning!
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