Virtual team building events or virtual events, in general, can be stressful if you don’t have a full understanding of what you need or even want to do. You know you need your team to participate in a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) related activity, but most are difficult to do virtually. We understand the concern of not being able to make the same impact as an in-person activity, but the good news is your team can make an even larger impact virtually.

Let’s go over the top 3 benefits of Virtual Team Building with Cheeriodicals.

1. Matched Live Event Engagement

When launching our virtual team building activities, we had the same concern as any other company in every industry: “There is no way we will have the same amount of employee engagement with virtual.” Of course, there was more to consider than that topic, but we were just certain our belief of ‘virtual cannot be as engaging as live activities’. We were wrong.

With 51.5% of event industry leaders concerned with matching live event engagement, we had to introduce something that would keep the participants interested and engaged. So we thought, why not just do the exact same thing as our in-person experience? That’s right, the in-person experience just turned virtual. With a few more added benefits, which you can find out more about by downloading the virtual overview, we essentially made a lateral move from live to virtual.

Our virtual team building events have, on average, a 99.8% engagement rate. With our virtual events, every participant receives a Cheeriodical to assemble and every participant is required to ship that Cheeriodical back. By this, we are able to measure each and every event engagement rate exactly. We also take into account how many of the participants are active on the virtual call (Zoom, Webex, GoTo, etc.). By encouraging selfies, group photos, and individuals to interact with each other, there is a consistent amount of engagement during our virtual team building sessions.

2. The Impact Can Be Bigger Than You Think

When you think of CSR team building and the transition into CSR virtual team building, it’s difficult to imagine the impact being as significant or even greater than an in-person activity. But in reality, with Cheeriodicals, your team can make an impact twice or even three times as large as an in-person event.

With our turnkey in-person team building experience, your team has an interactive and fun experience assembling Cheeriodicals to personally deliver to hospitalized children or hospitalized Veterans. This is usually limited to the amount of team building participants because it would be very difficult to fit 3,000+ participants in a meeting hall. So, you have about 350 participants (we know there are some a lot larger), each get a Cheeriodical to assemble and that is a total of 350 hospital patients impacted (put very simply). With our virtual events, however,  you can eliminate the concern about how many participants you can fit in a meeting venue or who to invite or not invite because you can invite the whole company if you want.

With our virtual CSR team building experience, your team is not constrained to deliver cheer to just one or two hospitals; your team may deliver cheer to multiple hospitals across the nation. The give-back impact is substantial as each person along the way, each recipient patient, each hospital staff member, and every virtual participant on your team all collectively enjoy the smiles created, delivered, and received along the way.

3. You Can Have More Events Per Year

With in-person events, you are often limited to how many events you can have per year. Your meeting or event budget may be tied directly to your company’s yearly performance. With that said, in-person meetings are often more expensive, and trying to plan and stay within budget can be difficult if the year has been challenging (queue 2020). The great news with virtual events is you may be able to execute a greater number of events and even have budget money left over. How great is that?

Let’s say you plan on average two meetings a year for in-person events; with planning virtual, you may be able to host three or even four meetings since many other costs for virtual meetings are reduced. Hosting more events while managing budget constraints is the perfect way to maintain and foster engagement with your team when connectivity matters more than ever.

Bonus: When planning in-person events, meeting planners often have to plan six months to even a year in advance to reserve meeting space, book flights, and more.  With virtual meetings, the timeline is much shorter because so many pieces of the puzzle are eliminated including travel, restaurant reservations, hotel reservations, just to name a few.

Looking Ahead

Don’t worry if you would be good at planning a virtual meeting with a CSR team building element included because it is a new process.

Planning a meeting with team building, in-person or virtually, can be time-consuming, difficult, and stressful but Cheeriodicals takes the majority of that concern away from you and your team. Don’t worry about adding Cheeriodicals to your virtual meeting agenda, we’ve got your back! We make it as easy. Almost too easy…

Just send us a message and we will take care of the rest.

Let’s deliver cheer!