Team-build like a pro

Christmas is just around the corner and our office is in full festive mood ??????

So what better occasion to bring the team together to celebrate and improve teamwork at the same time?

At Vitesy, we believe that a strong team is the key to success. When you're part of a team, you have the support of your peers and colleagues—and the ability to learn from each other's strengths and skills.?

Team building events are perfect to cultivate an effective corporate culture where employees enjoy coming to work and collaborate easily. Creating a strong team goes beyond hiring competent and kind employees—once you've hired your employees, it's helpful to explore the next step of focusing on how to bring them all together and transform them into a productive team.?

Creating a strong team is essential for an organization, because its employees are a big part of the company’s success. So engaging in team activities brings many benefits: it improves communication, builds trust between coworkers, engages people in a proactive and productive way, helps everyone learn some new skills, and many more!

It’s also one of the most treasured events by our employees! Here's what Marta Dagli Orti says:

I love that during reunions we can combine moments of work and collaboration between the team. We can talk about our projects in an informal way and still value each moment. There's a special atmosphere, it's like spending the holidays with your family: this is one of Vitesy's strongest points.

So this month we thought we could share one of our favorite team building activities: a Christmas reunion! Here’s a rundown of everything we did these two days and how that helped us get stronger as a team.

?? First, coffee!

As true Italians, we need our espresso to gather our energies for a day full of activities! This also gives us the opportunity to chit chat and get to know each other on a more personal level.

?? Table football tournaments

A little competitiveness never hurt nobody, right? Some of us train all year round during lunch break just for this moment. We all become a bit too competitive - and sometimes even break a sweat - but we have so much fun! Some talented dream teams are formed, but in the end there’s one player everyone’s afraid of… our CEO!

???? Food, music and lots of fun

Who doesn’t love blasting Mariah Carey in December?! Good food, some drinks and Christmas music are the perfect recipe for a fun night. After a year of hard work, it’s nice to be able to let loose and enjoy a party all together (especially after the last 2 years). It’s a nice way to recharge and get ready to do our best in 2023!

?? Lean cooking experience

This year we tried something completely new: a team cooking class! We were divided into small teams and we had to collaborate all together to cook our dinner - a huge responsibility! Luckily we did great: we helped each other and shared our skills to prepare the most delicious dishes. No crumbs left after dinner! Thank you LEF for this wonderful experience ??

?? Vitesy Wrapped

Getting all together at the end of the year is the best occasion to look back at the past months, celebrate our successes and see what can be improved. We go over everything we planned to do during the year and see what we were able to accomplish.

?? Glimpse of next year’s business goals

Reflecting on the past goes hand in hand with planning the future. Each team sets its own goals to work towards as well as aspects to improve on. Setting goals is very important so that the company as a whole can strive to be even more successful.

Vitesy loves Christmas reunions because it's a way to celebrate our successes and it gives us the boost we need to do even better, just like Viviana Paolini says:

Reunions are a great way to bring the team together and spend 2 days working in a different way. Since every time there’s some workshops on next year’s goals, this makes us think outside the box and out of our roles. It’s nice to wrap up the work we’ve done together during the year. Also, we get to party for 2 days!

What does your company do to create a stronger team? Let us know in the comments so we can all get some new inspiration ??

Happy holidays from the Vitesy team! ??