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Over communicate and stay visible:
- Have a daily team chat via Skype, MS Teams, Zoom or conference call
- Use the video function to see faces while meeting or talking
Lean on your community:
- Maintain your typical office chat
- Have a virtual chat or call with individual co-workers
- Create fun themes for daily chats
- Say a daily hello to team members
- Set up a time to chat with co-workers
- Have a virtual coffee break with co-workers
- Create a FB Live Social Party
- Use stickers, meme, video to create humor via virtual chats
- Share pics of home office space
- Pick a daily topic that each member can contribute to via email or a chat board such as pets, favorite photo, hobby, etc.
- A Zoom lunch gathering
Celebrate With Your Team
Below are a few no-cost, creative ways to celebrate Employee Appreciation Day modified for your remote workforce.
- Host a virtual Employee Appreciation Day for your remote team. Choose a fun theme, ask everyone to dress up (optional) and find virtual backgrounds that go along with your theme. You can ask your leader (next up the chain) to share an encouraging message or to facilitate a fun game for employees.
- Write a handwritten note to your staff and personalize it with recognizing something they have done that has made a positive impact on your team.
- Raffle off prizes during a Zoom call. Prizes can be university swag already on hand, and you can use to pick winners.
- Create a to celebrate employees with an online group card filled with messages, GIFs, photos and videos.
- Share praise received from customers. This shows employees that their work matters and may give them a needed boost.
- Create a Hall of Fame where leaders can recognize someone in their division or college who made an extraordinary contribution to the institution鈥檚 ability to manage during the pandemic.
SME: SP/SRAP
Updated: 2/26/2021 SRAP