Since the covid 19 times most of the companies are forced by the circumstances to allow employees to work from home.
However they are all making their best effort to contribute towards the office tasks being in their homes yet in these difficult times they equally need a good dose of Positivity ,feeling connected and motivated.
Beautiful Article on how HR, Team leaders can keep their team energised,motivated and engaged and entertained.
Below are few offline activities which can be conducted with your teams working from home:
1. Posting a daily Scheduled Quiz and fixing a valid time for closer. (quiz can be related to your own domain)Announcing the winner fortnightly or per week (your call) for maximum correct answer.
Quiz can be visual..to make it more interesting.involve movies, songs, history, covid-19(a lot many variations can be added)
2. Post a real pic.and let everyone write a short story on it(word limit to be set)
3. Post Indian map picture and let them doddle or point out where they were born.
4.Things in common-let your team Mingle up offline and come up with 5 common things.. Tell them to come up as three different groups
This will stir a lot of interactions amongst themselves before posting the common interests on the group for eg
Richa, jaya,sandeep,bhishek we four joined the organization in the same month same year.
5) .3 Favourite things about the company . This will let you know their mindset and liking about the company.
6.Who all Have ever! -You may just post or drop a question like
How many of you have travelled to USA
How many of you have a pet
How many of you have a pink shirt/kurti/top
Many variations...
7. Announcing 2-3dish to be prepared optional for the next day. They can Choose any one of them and post their own pic along with the dish.
(first 3 timely entries can be the winner )
8.Throw a topic and let them Write a paragraph on it.(word limit to be set)
9 Getting involved into some fortnightly or daily challenges u can set for e.g
-Send a selfie with your wife and kids send a audio visual
-how are they feeling to find you at home
-make a hand made card on awareness of covid 19
-Any of your kids activity drawing, scrabbling, dance, song, poem
-Sing a song yourself record it with audio visual and send in the group.
-Work out audio visual challenge. Ask for a particular exercise a
Or Yoga set
-Share a childhood photo of yours
And many more activities
10. Tasks. Tongue twister
11. You have a minute to win it game can be played where different tasks can be given to be completed in 1minutes record and send it
12.Elobarate /define the abbreviations of your company name with adjectives on how you feel your company's image is. Best answer will be the winner. (don't give more than an hour for this one)
It will help you what your emmployees think about your company.
Imp notes:
For all the above activities if you are initiating, you need to have space on your phone. You need to be active and vigilant on the activities of the group.. Keep a track of entries.
It's not easy to get everyone think alike and make them engrossed offline. Lot of efforts and sportiness will be required.
For keeping it short.. Always add few disciplinary mandatory and easy to manage rules like first 4 entries will only be considered so that rest of them don't even post if the said number is already reached.
Keep encouraging the non participating public
You can divide a big team into 2small. Teams with different groups
It's for fun so just announce the winners.. They can be gifted with some goodies once the office re-opens.
So have good times. Make your team feel most positive, energetic and most important we all are still together feeling :)
We stand apart but united! We shall fight these times as well!
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