Three powerful ways your team can give back this Christmas

Christmas is traditionally a time of giving and joy!

Workplaces reward their staff with fun Christmas parties, families come together to celebrate over dinner, decorations and carols create a festive atmosphere in shopping centres, kids play happily with their new presents, and the list goes on.

Whilst these images may be familiar to some, they are not for many others.

It is startling to read that about 14% of the Australian population live in poverty and one-third of kids in New Zealand live in households below the country’s poverty line.

So as a workplace, what can you do to capture the spirit of Christmas, reward your staff and give to those less fortunate than ourselves?

I highlighted in my previous blog that a big part of building a positive team culture in your workplace revolves around making people feel good – feel good about themselves and feel good about their actions.

Here are three unique programs we have created that will help your business support the disadvantaged in the community over Christmas, and have a powerful impact on your team culture.

1. Fill It

This program involves participants working in teams to ultimately fill a trailer, wheel barrow or large children’s sand shell with the items then donated to a charity of your choice.

It features a number of team building activities that will test the resourcefulness, ingenuity and creativity of teams in a race against the clock to gather toys and ‘Fill It’.

Perfect as a half-day team activity for groups from five to 500, the power in this program comes at the end when the teams witness just how sizeable their contribution is.

2. Flat Pack Frenzy

As the name of this team building program suggests, it involves a frenzy to build flat pack furniture!

The challenge first is for teams to acquire the various tools and resources required to build the furniture by completing a series of fun activities.

Once these activities have been accomplished, a frenzy takes place as team members try to work in cohesion to build the furniture as per the manufacturer’s specifications.

There is a winning team awarded at the end however the true reward is seeing the smiles on the recipients’ faces as the donation of furniture is made.