How Virtual Team Building Activities Can Improve Employee Wellbeing

How Virtual Team Building Activities Can Improve Employee Wellbeing


By Phoebe Griffiths

Want to know how you can improve employee wellbeing with team building activities in London? Keep reading!

It’s a well-known fact that we spend most of our waking lives working. Considering the amount of time we invest in our jobs, it’s not surprising that it has a significant impact on our lives, health, and wellbeing.

However, with challenges such as the need for remote work and keeping safe, the once surefire ways of boosting team morale, like engaging team building events and fun group activities, might seem challenging to implement. And let’s not forget, employee wellbeing is crucial, as most of us are adapting to new work-from-home routines - with limited access to social interactions and team bonding!

That’s why we’ve taken it upon ourselves to show you that there are still ways to prioritise your employees' wellbeing and provide opportunities for them to relax and have fun while staying safe. It’s time to explore local options and utilise team building activities in London that allow for in-person engagement and shared experiences.

If you’re new to the team building activities London offers or are yet to be convinced, let us explain how these activities can wonderfully improve employee wellbeing and enhance that all-important team morale! After all, your teammates, colleagues, and employees all perform better when they’re happy and healthy!

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Virtual team building reduces stress

We all have mental health, just as we have physical health. So prioritising mental health by reducing stress is extremely important when it comes to employee wellbeing. 

This is perhaps the biggest reason employers are starting to introduce virtual team building activities to their employees. Stress and burnout cost businesses across the world millions, if not billions of pounds each year. So not only does letting your employees relax once in a while make you a more popular manager, but it is also a sound business decision! 

Did you know that arts and crafts for adults are a brilliant way to soothe the mind and alleviate stress? That’s right, a little art therapy goes a long way when it comes to calming and de-stressing a burned-out employee. Getting your dream team together for an online art class or some DIY crafts is a caring way to not only boost their creativity but their wellbeing too! 

From trying pottery at home over Zoom together to sending a tipsy paint and sip kit in the post to accompany a live online class, there are plenty of artistic and crafty options when it comes to fun team building activities. Show them the company cares by allowing them to get mindful with some calming arts and crafts for adults. 

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Remote team building allows for a chance for social interaction

Let’s face it, with the UK lockdown and general social distancing, we’re all a bit lonely at the moment. Employees often thrive off the camaraderie between teammates. It is sometimes their office banter and kitchen chit chat that helps them get through the day as they realise they’re not alone in their work-related worries or stress. Yet, these beneficial social interactions have all but been taken away from them by the coronavirus lockdown. 

Getting your team together for some virtual team building activities to simply enjoy themselves and each other's company is a way to show them they’re not alone. Let them enjoy the company of their work-family once again with a wellbeing-boosting homemade candles class or a calming DIY terrarium workshop. 

Whatever remote team building activities you choose for your faithful employees, make sure it’s an enjoyable experience where they have plenty of chances to chat and share in the activity together. If they no longer feel alone in the world or alone in their work, it is guaranteed that their wellbeing will be improved!

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Virtual team activities are fun and improve company culture

Your company culture shouldn’t be one of burn-out, stress and high staff-turnover. It should be one of creativity, positivity and productivity. How to build this company culture? Some fun team activities are an excellent way to start! 

Showing your teammates and employees a good time is the perfect way to improve company culture and overall well being. They’ll associate work and the company with positive and happy thoughts and begin to feel close to their team, despite the distance. 

Picture this, you and your team are all together on a video call enjoying an evening of DIY cocktails as a master mixologist teaches you how to make impressive cocktails at home and how to wow the crowd with a bottle twirl. 

Whilst you sip on some of your spirituous concoctions you and your team, share lots of laughs, create inside jokes about failing the bottle twirl and most importantly, build relationships and trust. Now that’s how you improve company culture! 

Find more motivation building virtual team building activities here. 

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Reward your team after a hard year

This year has been a hard one, to say the least. With a global pandemic, a crashing economy, Brexit… Ok, let’s stop there, shall we? The point is, that rewarding your team at the end of this year is imperative. They’ve all been through a lot. 

So keep their spirits up with some fun team building activities and give them something to look forward to during this long winter full of lockdowns and restrictions. 

You could get them together over Zoom for a corporate cooking class online - does handmade pizza sound good? Or you could get them into the cosy Christmas spirit with a winter wreath making workshop. Whether it’s DIY crafts or knocking up tasty treats, you’ll be showing them just how valuable they are whilst improving their wellbeing at the same time. 

We hope we’ve convinced you of the power of remote team building so you can make a happy workforce the backbone of your company's success. The only problem is, how will you choose a virtual class to spoil them with when there are so many to choose from?

 





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