Seeking Ideas for Employee Engagement and Team Building Activities in 2008 – What Are Your Plans?

Dear All,

Once again, I need your inputs and hope that you will surely respond. We need to plan out Employee Engagement/Team Building Initiatives to be taken by HR during 2008. Kindly suggest what activities are planned by your esteemed organizations and provide ideas.

Awaiting your valued inputs.

Thanks and regards,

Mamta Batheja
Pulsar Knowledge Centre Pvt Ltd.

TRY THIS:

Music band

Ask the musically talented employees to put together a show for the company which they can perform on talent night, during lunch hours, or on any other such relevant occasion.

Board game night

Scrabble, carom, cards, monopoly.

Karaoke/'jam' Sessions

Music evening for the singers, musically talented or otherwise.

Dinner

Education courses/diplomas

Company sponsored part-time MBA's / Engineering etc. for higher learning & career growth.

Surprise lunches

Occasionally hire a live band, or decorate the cafeteria to keep things exciting and new, organise a surprise catering crew outdoors on certain festivals or important days.

Casual Mondays'

Minimise the Monday blues by declaring it a ‘casual' dress day.

Theme Parties

Office parties with different dress/ ambience/ themes (e.g. cowboy, 60/ 70's, disco theme, etc.).

Workplace decorations

Put up cricket posters during cricket season/ football during the world cup/ tennis, pink balloons for Women's Day, a surprise red rose on the desk of each employee for Valentines Day, etc.

Fun dress codes

Ethnic wear, all-pink-day for girls/ blue for boys, all in company logo T-shirts (this can even be a nice way to advertise for your company free of cost!), all in something with stripes, bright colours, etc.

Hi Mamta,

You conduct Fun Fridays so that employees will get an opportunity to meet and build relationships. Taking your employees to outbound trainings and conducting some team-building activities can be beneficial.

Hope this helps you.

Regards,
Latha.