Riss

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Remote Happy Hour Ideas?

I want to find fun and creative "Happy Hour" like activities for our remote team to bond better, but my well is running dry. I feel like they can be so awkward and forced! But we need to build more culture & camaraderie. I'm stuck!

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softwaresails

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Sales Manager

My suggestion is to not do remote happy hours. I know people try to do them but they usually are horrible haha.

paddy

WR Officer

Director of Business Development

I agree, they're cringeworthy. I'd say try to get everyone together. The odds of younger people dying from the rona right now are next to zero.

Riss

Opinionated

I don’t even know anymore 🤪

We actually did this a few weeks ago! The problem is, everyone is so distributed now with the last remote, I'm not sure when the next time we'll be able to do this is. I'm trying to figure out a middle ground in between our in-person meet-ups that are more cost friendly to the team and company.

Tres

Politicker

Account Executive

There's a thread on virtual social events which might spark some ideas: https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/virtual-social-evenbts

funcoupons

WR Officer

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This prob isn't that helpful to you but I feel like everyone is just sick of remote "fun" lol. It's tough right now.

My suggestions would be to have an interesting conversation topic so people can get to know each other better - stuff like two truths and a lie, or the moderator asks a question like "what's your favourite place you've ever travelled" and everyone takes turns answering. Trivia could work as well.

Riss

Opinionated

I don’t even know anymore 🤪

I feel the same way! Especially with summer coming up, why would I want to spend more time behind the computer for "fun". But these are good suggestions, something we haven't tried.

ChunkyButters

Tycoon

Hire @GeneralCorp for an appearance.

Riss

Opinionated

I don’t even know anymore 🤪

I wish we had the budget!! #goals

Chep

WR Officer

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

Worth giving it a shot. When you start the meeting mention this is super low pressure and meant to be team bonding. Set the expectations and people will loosen up. At least I've found that to be the case on the few virtual happy hours I've attended.

Aaronlovessales

Opinionated

Financial advisor

I recently did a happy hour with a sommelier. Shipped 3 bottles of wine to clients and had about 30 people on the event. They loved it

Riss

Opinionated

I don’t even know anymore 🤪

Did you use a service for this? Or directly with the vineyard/distributor?

Aaronlovessales

Opinionated

Financial advisor

I used a service- Google’s virtual event planner

Telehealth_2the_Moon

Notable Contributor

Director of Business Development

I think if you can find something to 'force' engagement, like a game or something designed to be played this way it can help. People get competitive and if you have audio/video group chat going you can get a fun atmosphere with it.

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

How do you define team? Are these managers and reps or people all of the same level?

Riss

Opinionated

I don’t even know anymore 🤪

So I want to do this with the SDR team, but want to also find ways to integrate them with the more senior reps and ae’s as they are in a different departments (ae’s in sales, sdrs in mkting)

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Make it a game of some kind then. People sitting around at different levels is just gonna be awkward.

Artemis

Politicker

Business Development Representative

One of the BDRs in my org was a bartender for a few years. We're in TX, so back in the office and going to real happy hours. But when we were all still virtual, we'd send unique mixed drinks to the BDR/bartender and he would create a recipe list and send it out during the week to everyone going to the happy hour on Fridays. Then we'd show up to our virtual happy hour and he'd show us all how to make the drink and we'd do it along with him! It was super fun and gave us all a chance to try new, unique drinks and hang out!

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