Have you already planned your Christmas party? Whether you are organising it online, onsite or hybrid, with TEDME you can make it even more exciting for everyone involved. Find out how you can do this and what other tips we have in store for your Christmas party in this blog post.
Christmas party with a knowledge game
We promise that you will receive many more tips for your celebration. But let's start with the recommendation to integrate a knowledge game. The best way to do this, so that everyone can take part nowadays, is to use a digital interaction tool such as TEDME.
This will ensure that your employees and colleagues remain actively involved even after the welcome addresses and speeches. The more lively you make the knowledge game, the longer and more positively your employees will remember it. Give it a try. This is how it works:
Whether online, offline or hybrid - how to make your Christmas party a success with TEDME
TEDME makes it really easy. Every participant, whether they are online or on site, can take part. All you need is a smartphone or a computer with a browser and you're ready to go.
Online Christmas party
Is your Christmas party taking place online this year? Then it's very easy for everyone to take part. All your participants open a browser, enter the TEDME code and they can join your knowledge game live.
All participants see the questions and answers on their screen.
Christmas party on site
Are you planning a Christmas party in person? In a small team or as an idea for the coming years? Then taking part is super easy here too. All your participants simply pull out their smartphones, enter the code for the knowledge quiz and they'll be there live. You can also play out the questions and answers via the stage. This allows everyone to follow in real time who or which team is currently leading the race and who still needs to be overtaken.
Hybrid Christmas party
You guessed it, didn't you? The online participants log in to tedme.com on their computer in the browser and the participants on site enter the code on their smartphone, also in the browser. Both groups are already on the same interface and taking part in the same quiz.
Questions you could ask at your Christmas party
What could we ask our employees? Here are a few suggestions:
- Everything about the company. From the year the company was founded, to the first product, the first employee, the most popular or the most bizarre product, the branch that doesn't even exist - let your imagination run wild.
- Now it's time to get down to business and the team.
Who is the colleague who even runs a marathon in her spare time?
Who is the colleague who even organises his own exhibitions with his photographs?
Which colleague has completed both yoga and emergency helper training? - Humorous or current affairs.
Take a look at what is happening on a daily basis and on the floor. What can you deduce from this? - Everything about Christmas.
Why is Father Christmas dressed in red and white?
When did we start celebrating Christmas?
Which festival do the Chinese, the Russians, the Jews, the .... celebrate?
What were the Three Wise Men called again? And in which federal state can you go to work on 6 January? - How long has Wham's "Last Christmas" been around?
How to bring your knowledge quiz to life
Turn it into a competition, or a challenge, and let groups from your company or organisation compete against each other. Or play with or against each other across departments. How exciting the race is also depends on how you cheer on the groups and make the results of the respective teams visible to everyone. Everyone should be able to see which team has just collected how many points - in real time, of course. Also limit the response times and cheer on the groups. This adds even more excitement to the knowledge game.
Reward the winners of the knowledge quiz
Your Christmas knowledge game can be made even more competitive and exciting if you offer prizes for the winners. Of course, these could be non-material prizes such as "1st place" or "Christmas party superstar". Or you could put valuable and coveted prizes in the "gift bag", for example for the first 10 players or for the winning team.
Secret Santa - online, offline or hybrid
Secret Santa is a popular Christmas tradition in German offices. How the Secret Santa is organised differs slightly from team to team and from region to region. Essentially, however, it involves passing around prizes or gifts that have just been won.
You can therefore throw the prizes from your competition or from a previously collected gift campaign among the participants into the virtual or real Secret Santa bag.
You've probably already done this umpteen times at a physical Christmas party. Perhaps you're missing the idea of how to implement this online or hybrid?
You can do this online or hybrid:
Distribute numbers for the prizes or gifts to be exchanged. Put these numbers into a lottery pot. Then let your participants draw a number - using a random number generator, for example. Or have a name appear at random on the stage or screen and this person can then choose a gift - still wrapped, of course.
This can be helped, for example, by the Random picker wheelwith which you randomly determine who is next in line or which Secret Santa gift will change hands next.
Is it all too complicated for you? Are your teams too big or too small for this type of raffle? Then why not have the gifts handed in centrally at the office and exchanged later? Or even simpler: only give away digital gifts, such as vouchers.
Further tips for your Christmas party
Create a festive atmosphere - regardless of whether your Christmas party takes place online, on-site or hybrid. Celebrate in or broadcast from a room decorated for Christmas. Especially for an online or hybrid version, ask your colleagues or employees for a Christmas accessory behind their computer - with the video camera switched on, of course. Also have a few virtual backgrounds ready for the video conferences and personalise them with your company logo.
Do you still have a little time and budget left? Then send Christmas-filled gift boxes to your colleagues' offices and home offices. Or bake biscuits together in front of the camera, drink a mulled wine or tell a Christmas story in which the next person always adds to what the previous person has said.
"Once upon a time, in a land far away, three people got together to launch a brand new product called XYZ. Everything seemed simple until one day ...".
All you need is a video conferencing tool and someone to write down the entire story. This way, it will remain a beautiful and hopefully funny memory for everyone even after the party.
That was all too cheerful and friendly for you and you want to add a little more "spice" to the Christmas party? Then why not try "the Ugly Christmas Dancing" or the "Ugly Christmas Pullover Challenge".
The aim here is to see who has dug the ugliest Christmas jumper out of the furthest corner or who can dance as terribly as possible to the usual Christmas hits - on camera, of course. Preferably in such a way that even the Grinch would be put off. Important: The aim here is not to expose colleagues, but to award prizes for "the wackiest motif", just like at many a fancy dress party or carnival.
Conclusion
Christmas parties can be much more than welcome speeches and addresses from the management and works council. Even if yours is virtual or hybrid this year, with an interaction tool such as TEDME and a knowledge game, a well thought-out Secret Santa and a few other Christmas ideas, your party will be a complete success.
