Team building à distance et outils collaboratifs en ligne

Updated on 04-02-2022 | Corporate events

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Team building involves collaborative work necessary for companies.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to reinvent our ways of working, particularly in terms of communication and information sharing.

Virtual meetings are now commonplace, but how do you organize remote event sessions?

Event management at the heart of collaborative work

Team building: a tool for corporate culture

"Team building" has long been recognized in companies.

Indeed, its role is to increase productivity by strengthening ties and corporate culture among employees. Organized for executive committee meetings, conferences, seminars, these meetings allow new experiences while solidifying human relationships.

We all know that the organization of a company relies on the employees it employs, and the relationship they have with it.

Thus, it has become essential to be able to meet in a setting that promotes cohesion and well-being at work. For example, organizing seminars in atypical locations or having participants play as a team.

It has been recognized that team building increases staff efficiency by 30%, reduces absenteeism, contributes to better stress management, and, above all, creates emulation among employees.

But how to do it in the age of mandatory telecommuting? How to make room for such events in a pandemic when the exchange of links has become even more difficult than before?

Virtual team building: countering the pandemic

The pandemic has imposed a new way of working and we had to reinvent ourselves in all areas. The technical evolution of PCs, tablets, smartphones, has allowed this accessibility and "online" collaboration has become more democratic. Remote brainstorming and video conferencing are now a bit of our daily lives.

ICTs, combined with online applications, are therefore perfectly suited to the organization of remote events.

Yes, your seminar can be organized differently, and many specialized agencies specifically support you during periods of health restrictions.

In person, some offer you locations adapted to prefectural measures related to COVID: curfew, confinement, on-site screening tests, etc.

But a new format of corporate meetings has emerged: digital events.

This alternative completely renews the codes of seminars:

• In-person events are transformed into 3.0 animations.
• Virtual reality and holograms make their appearance in your living room!

More information sharing (hyperlinks), no distance problem (wherever you are, you can participate), no problem if you are absent (webinars are always available afterwards), and above all, virtual "rooms" where you can accommodate twice as many people.

We agree: what about the human side of all this?

It is clear that we miss the "tactile" relationship, but we have to deal with it. Event companies strive to give as much humanity as possible to the events they organize, even behind our screens.

Finally, everything lies in the simplicity of use and the modernity that these remote team building offer you: a simple link, no download and a hologram on a TV set in your colors. Live shows and animations will be there to stimulate group dynamics or unite your clients during a festive evening.

Nice, isn't it?

Which online tools for remote work?

Collaborative platforms

Directly accessible, a collaborative platform allows you to upgrade team productivity by providing shared work tools such as: instant messaging, calendars, video conferences and remote meetings, project management dashboards, etc.

Workflow management is thus facilitated with platforms such as: Monday.com, Trello or Asana.

Another example: Slack, a platform that is part of internal corporate social networks. It allows the organization of dedicated workspaces and gives a large priority to exchanges between teams or people instantly.

No need to introduce today the shared work platforms and storage areas such as: Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive.

Office suites


The pandemic has only reinforced the idea that digitization is a must for any company that wants to be modern and visible. Office tools are there to help us.

The technical evolution of PCs, tablets, smartphones, has allowed this accessibility. Digital transformation is developing to work together. It is still necessary for organizations to play along and offer management tools that allow collaboration.

The Microsoft (Word, Excel…) or Google (Docs, Sheet…) office suites have thus adapted to the digital behaviors of increasingly connected companies, facilitating the creation of workspaces and data sharing.

Remote team building: a winning curiosity

Remote work is becoming more democratic thanks to collaborative work tools and the increase in virtual technologies.

However, this work is nothing if team cohesion is no longer there! Seminar canceled? Why? We can still organize ourselves.

Many ideas have emerged to organize the most original meetings or seminars:

• Escape games on tablets or phones,
• Interactive games like blind tests,
• Quizzes,
• Online votes,
• Or even culinary challenges!

Distance has amplified the "gamification" of company meetings at a time when e-games are on the verge of becoming an Olympic sport. Isn't that completely crazy?

These new experiences, even if they emerged very quickly and very strongly for a sad reason, are no less the reflection of a new society.

Companies are playing the collective intelligence card by staying virtually connected and playing the game of interactive events.