Enhancing the employee experience at Company Days to make it
more inclusive
For Valtech UK | Private sector | UK | 2019-2020
CLIENT
Valtech UK is a digital agency focused on business transformation with a strong tech capability and co-innovation strategy. Part of a global agency distributed in 15 countries, it hires around 200 employees in the UK distributed in 3 offices: London, Manchester and Bristol.
CHALLENGE
Preparing and running 2 Company Days in the London office to enhance the experience of all employees. The goal was to make it more inclusive and engaging for both consultants and back office staff across the 3 UK offices. This includes helping to better integrate Bristol employees coming from a recent acquisition.
APPROACH
In collaboration with one colleague, we researched what was working and not in the agenda of previous Company Days to find out what we should keep and what could be improved. We integrated new kinds of activities into the agenda that aimed to respond to the challenge. After running the event, we collected feedback through a survey to measure employee satisfaction.
SOLUTION
Based on the learnings from previous Company days, we created a new agenda and introduced new types of activities like team building and external speakers while evolving some famous sessions to make them more accessible and engaging. As a result, employees were largely satisfied of the day at 78% and 85% were likely to recommend Company Day to a colleague.
process
WORK IN PROGRESS
Available soon.
deliverables
COMPANY DAY INTRODUCTION
To present the agenda and learnings from previous company days
Veena and I presenting the agenda and introducing the day
ICE BREAKERS
To warm up people and make them feel comfortable engaging
Crowd engagement using Slido - fun question to break the ice and make people test the tool on their phones
RUNNING TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
To create opportunities for employees across offices to meet and bond with each other
Marshmallow challenge
Ran with 12 teams between 8 and 10 people
Sketching portrait challenge
Ran the Sketching Portrait Challenge with 180 employees
INVITING EXTERNAL SPEAKERS
To think beyond day-to-day work and extend your horizon
Stuart Nolan, speaking about designing magical experience
Tara Boland, from Punchdrunk,
speaking about immersive narratives
RUNNING A WORKSHOP ON MANAGING INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS IN TEAMS
To introduce the importance of psychological safety in teams to enable them delivering great work
Outcome of the workshop based on the SDI triangle (Strengths Deployment Inventory)
Introducing the topic of team dynamics to participants before the workshop
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