How to Energise Your Virtual Corporate Events in 2024

• Team Motivation

Energisers and team building activities during your 2024 conferences, especially at the beginning of the new year, are an opportunity to reignite the enthusiasm and spark innovation within your team. Including all of your employees creates a sense of unity and community, which can be highly beneficial to the productivity of your workforce in the year ahead.

• Positive Company Culture

Energising your corporate events with team building activities enforces your organisation’s commitment to the wellbeing of its employees and the company culture. Attendees of your event will feel considered and catered to, which in turn will encourage their attention and engagement with the purpose and message of your event.

• Increased Information Retention

Incorporating energising activities into your virtual corporate events will reinvigorate your attendees’ attention when their focus begins to wane, preventing important information and messaging from falling on tired ears. Activities can be actioned periodically throughout a conference or arranged as a post-presentation event.

• Borderless Collaboration

Virtual corporate events let your international team unite and create a global learning community by removing the confines of location. Despite being spread across the world, you can share opinions, insights and join forces as if you were in the same room. Not only is this more effective than having individual sessions with your teams, but it can also create a sense of unity and community between your employees.

• Cost Efficiency

Hosting an in-person corporate event can come at a large expense, including travel expenses, venue hire, accommodation, and catering. By hosting a virtual corporate event, you retain this budget and can reallocate the resources where they matter most.

• Creating Employee Resources

The resources and messages that you discuss at an energiser event can go beyond the live event. You have the opportunity to record and download content for your employees to revisit and engage with at their own pace.

• Adapt to Unexpected Market Opportunities or Threats

Virtual events have a much shorter lead time than traditional, in-person events, giving you greater market agility. With many markets evolving at a rapid pace, hosting a virtual energiser event can improve your team’s ability to adjust to market opportunities or challenges.

• Corporate Social Responsibility

One of the most compelling benefits of virtual corporate events is the environmental benefits. For international firms there is a significant reduction in carbon emissions, as well as a reduction in physical resources that are wasted, such as flyers, banners, water and energy. With many companies emphasising their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), energising your virtual events is a great way to keep everyone engaged and continue to reduce your environmental impact through online meetings and events.

• Technical Issues

Technical issues are always a higher risk when hosting virtual events. However, due to the advancements in technology, this is rare, and procedures can be put in place to mitigate the chance of these problems interrupting the success of your event.

• Networking Challenges

Corporate events such as kickoffs and energisers are a great way for employees to collaborate and build a wider community, which is often more natural in-person than online. To ensure connections within an online community, it is essential that you consider an activity or performance such as The Master of Tasks that will break the ice between your attendees and facilitate natural networking opportunities.

• Time Zone Challenges

When organising a virtual corporate event for teams in different time zones, it may be difficult to select an hour within the working day to accommodate everyone. To achieve the maximum attendance, participation, and enthusiasm from your staff, you can incorporate time off in lieu or flexible working hours. This will show consideration for your team’s individual needs and ultimately give them autonomy in their work life to attend.