Does online team building fit your team?!
We present the differences, benefits or constraints between an online team building and an offline team building, from the event organizer's perspective. We share with you our experience in organising team building so that you can choose the activities that best suit your team.
Since 2006, we, the Ecoxtrem team, have worked with tens of thousands of people in companies in Romania and beyond. We have had clients from all industries and we still have professional partnerships with key people in the corporate area with whom we organize yearly events dedicated to employees. The year 2020 was the year of change and we had to move all our activity online. We do not deviate from the purpose of our services, which is to develop creative concepts that support the professional goals of the companies we work with. Moreover, we have found ways to adapt what we used to do offline into what we now do online. Yes, the experience is not the same, nor should we see them as two identical services, but rather as two services that serve the same purpose.
ONLINE TEAM BUILDING: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
In short, it is a way of bringing together all the employees of the company or of a department/project and we carry out for 2-3 hours FUN ACTIVITIES creative or logic activities after which the participants will surely feel at least 2 of the following:
- A powerful boost to their morale;
- A nice feeling of belonging to the team I am part of;
- Motivation and an increased degree of commitment to the team/company;
- Easy relief from the daily taks, stress and deadlines you have to meet.
On the other hand, online events are definitely not for every type of employee, every type of team/company. Each participant needs to have access to a computer/laptop/tablet, to have internet access and preferably the device they are using should have a microphone and video camera. Also, although online activities can be tiring, the interactive and fun way we do these activities has proven to make the passage of time much easier.
The interaction is very different from offline (face to face) events.
I have had very pleasant surprises with the participants I have worked with, because I have seen that they are active, engaged and enjoy spending time with their colleagues in such informal settings. The pluses that such an activity has, as well as the benefits afterwards, make us confident and highly recommend this type of service, especially as the experience gained in 2020 in delivering online teambuilding events has helped us to form a more objective opinion on the subject.
NREVENTS: We had the opportunity to organize over 100 Online Teambuilding events in 2020.
NRPARTICIPANTS: We had groups from 6 people to 600 people.
DURATION: On average, the events lasted between 1h30 min - 3h30 min.
↪f_200D↩BUDGET: budgets for online teambuilding activities are lower than those for offline teambuilding activities, and the concepts are now accessible to a larger group of companies.
PLATFORMS: ZOOM most often used; TEAMS, but also Skype, Google Meet, Webex.
CLIENTS: We have had clients from all fields (IT, Retail, Finance, Banking, Pharma, E-commerce, Oil Industry, Shipping Industry, BPOs, Automotive, Automotive Technology, Insurance, Media-TV, Telecommunications etc).
↪F_200D↩CUSTOMER SERVICE:
"Super cool and well organized! The whole team had a great time, the escape room we chose was challenging enough but also fun :) and although it was 100% remote, we didn't encounter any problems! Roxana Stoenescu - Crayon Romania
"A pleasant surprise, an experience that managed to connect us even though we were at a distance and brought good humour to the team. Good organization, very natural flow of activities, team coordinators fun and involved. Any short pill to connect the team is welcome. - Mihaela Radu CCC Shoes
PERSONALISED TEAMBUILDING OFFERS
All offers we make to our clients include a minimum degree of customization. Then, depending on each individual client, their needs, their desires and the characteristics of the participants, we recommend certain types of concepts, missions and approaches.
For example, the best-selling online teambuilding program of 2020 was: SHERLOCK HOLMES. The explanation is very simple: Sherlock Holmes is the kind of concept that includes both a logical thread, a story (murder mystery case), and creative challenges, challenges customized to each individual team. This mix of logic and creativity, standard missions and custom missions has made this program a sensational success!
