5 Great Holiday Party Ideas for Your Remote Working Team

Let’s face it. There’s no fun starting the holidays without some real engagement with your team. But how do you celebrate the holiday season when you have a fully remote team working for you.

Well, it’s not as difficult as it appears to be. With the brilliant resources available in the market, and a little creativity of your own, you too can celebrate the holidays just like a physical in-house team can. If you’re not sure how to make that happen, here are a few ideas to help you get started.

By using them for this holiday season, you can help your team bond and engage with each other better. It helps them get to know each other and build a rapport with the other team members. It’s a great way to help your team to feel more connected. It also helps boost their morale which in turn improves their efficiency.

1. Send Holiday Gift Boxes

While it’s exciting to be part of a virtual celebration, one of the major downsides of such events is the lack of physical gifts. But you can add them to your celebrations by sending gift boxes to your team members a few days before the actual celebrations.

These boxes can include anything like chocolates and cupcakes. If you have a global team where sending eatables isn’t feasible, you can add custom-made products like tee-shirts, yeti mugs, notebooks, pens, etc. What you include in these boxes can vary depending on your budget and creativity.

Ask your team to open the gifts together with the team on the day of the celebration. It’s a wonderful way to bring a smile to your team member’s faces for a more enjoyable holiday season.

2. Plan a Virtual Photo Booth

When you have a remote team, the chances of you posing for pictures reduce because of the physical distance. But video conferencing software like Zoom has made it possible irrespective of this distance.

You can gather all the members on one screen and pose for a team photo. To make things look more festive, ask everyone to wear festive props like a Santa hat, or holiday-themed clothes. You can send a copy of this picture to the entire team as a memory of the event.

3. Allow Winners to Escape Game Room

Creating escape rooms has been made easy by various video conferencing software. Take advantage of these escape rooms to make your celebration a more fun-filled experience. You can organize quizzes or create riddles for your team to solve. Whoever answers first or solves the riddle sooner gets to escape the game room.

4. Let them Identify the Face

This is another amazing virtual game to play during such events. Collect childhood pictures of your team before the day of the celebration. Now use them for your party game. Ask your team to identify the childhood pictures of your team members.

It’s a fun virtual game to play with your team at such events. It helps you connect with your colleagues better while giving a sneak peek into their childhood days.

5. Do a Secret Santa Gift Exchange

Before the actual day of the event, let your team members have the postal address of three of their teammates. Ask them to send a secret gift to one of these members. Keep the identity of the sender a secret until after the gift is opened.

On the day of the party, ask all the members to wear a Santa hat and open their gifts in the presence of each other and guess who the sender was. It’s a wonderful game to keep the fun going and boost the excitement for the celebration.

So these are some of the amazing holiday party ideas for your team. Now go ahead and plan your party and see how it goes. Don’t forget to let us know which of these ideas were picked for your virtual party. We would love to hear from you.