In societatea actuala, echipele virtuale sau lucratul remote sunt din ce in ce mai intalnite. Conform Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 46% din organizatiile care au participat la studiu au echipe virtuale.
This way of working is becoming increasingly popular, for obvious reasons. Such an approach helps organizations attract top talent who can work from anywhere, including from home, reducing costs and increasing productivity.
The question we raise is: how does this way of working compensate the human interaction part?
Trust, friendship and team atmosphere are much easier to create when teams work from the same building for 40 hours a week.
“You don't need everyone physically together to create a strong culture. The best cultures derive from actions people actually take.“ (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)
Here are some ideas under the umbrella #theUNIVERSUMexperience for your teams:
Teams can be brought to the same place at least once a year for a TownHall Meeting. In addition to presenting the results, goals, strategies and directions of each department, half of the event agenda can be devoted to a teambuilding with all participants.
Big Picture is one of the most popular teambuilding activities in our portfolio. It is very flexible in terms of customization and meets a wide range of objectives.
For teams working from multiple sites, it is the kind of activity that sticks in the memory of the participants, not only because the final painting can be created modularly from the start to be installed on the walls of the sites, but also because it reflects very realistically the organizational culture.
Go Team is a teambuilding activity that follows the scenario of a treasure hunt through a digital interface, more specifically through tablets. Why is this activity suitable for teams working remotely? Because no matter where in the world the participants are, they can take part in the activity.
Even the UNIVERSUM team took part in such a teambuiling, which included a world record - a 24h teambuilding around the world with the whole team Catalyst Global
Virtual Teambuilding
In this case, team creativity is the limit! From video meetings in which „MTV Cribs” scenarios can be recreated, pets can be introduced, extensions within work platforms (Donut in Slack, for example), leaping via email and as many more as team members are willing to try.
✉️ Does your company have remote teams? Write us in a comment how you help to increase organizational culture.
