Organise your company Christmas party easily with CHEQ

Everyone at the company has worked hard all year, and it's time to celebrate the successes you have achieved together. One of the best ways to celebrate and unwind together is a year-end event. Of course, if you have to organise this on your own, it can be extremely tiring. But you needn't be afraid of that, because we stand by your side and help. So organise the company Christmas party easily with the CHEQ app and team.

Why is it necessary to hold a company Christmas party?

According to Edgar Schein, rituals are defining elements of organisational culture - a ceremonial and significant way of expressing our commitment to the company, the team and the goals. For many teams, the corporate holiday party is one of the most important rituals. This event creates an opportunity to be together and celebrate, while also carrying symbolic significance: it closes the working year and provides an opportunity to process the triumphs as well as the challenges. At the same time, it prepares the team for the year ahead, so it is definitely worth holding a company Christmas party. 

The benefits of workplace celebrations

Above I have already touched somewhat on why it is important to organise a corporate year-end event. Now, however, I would like to explain its benefits in more detail.

• They create an opportunity to recognise colleagues' achievements in front of the whole company. This recognition is a motivating factor for everyone, encouraging employees to continue doing their work excellently.

• They unite and reinforce corporate culture and values - celebrations are able to bring people together, especially when they have challenging periods behind them.

• They provide momentum - recognising smaller goals gives momentum to carry on and to achieve bigger goals.

• They boost positivity - it is easy to get absorbed in everything that is going wrong and to forget what is going well. Workplace celebrations steer the emphasis back to the good things.

• They reward - recognition and reward are essential to keeping employees committed and motivated. Year-end celebrations can in themselves be regarded as a nice reward, with which the employer thanks staff for their hard work after a trying year.

• They provide time - after a difficult year, the team needs to catch its breath and step out of work mode so it can start the new year fresh. A workplace celebration is a great way to switch off and to focus on the future.

Think it up, and we'll help you make it happen

Defining the framework

As a first step, think through exactly what tasks you need to solve while organising the company Christmas party. Usually at such times you have to decide where the event will be held. Will there be a venue rental, or will it be enough to reserve tables, or will the party be on the company's premises? If there is a venue rental, or the event is on the company's premises, then you also need to think about the menu and drinks provided by the catering. If you have to go to a location other than the workplace, then you also need to think about how the colleagues will get to the venue of the company Christmas party. Alongside all this, you also have to work out what programmes will await your colleagues. Will there be a DJ or a guest performer? Perhaps a raffle or some team-building game? An awards ceremony?

Once you have a rough picture of the framework within which you would like to organise the company Christmas party, we will help you make it happen too.

The CHEQ team steps in

If you have already organised a family day via CHEQ, then you know exactly that, with our help, any corporate event can be organised easily. What is more, you can also easily involve colleagues in the various points of the organising, so that you organise a company Christmas party that everyone will be happy to attend.

If you have not yet organised an internal corporate event via CHEQ, then please be sure to read our article about organising a family day. That article describes exactly how we help you build a separate menu system for the event, so that programme organisation is child's play for you. You can also learn from it how variously it supports your organising work when you involve colleagues too with the help of CHEQ.

Here's how to make the company Christmas party more special

Choose the most helpful colleague together

If in the meantime you have read the article about organising a family day, then you know that you can also spice up the corporate programme with votes. So if, for example, you are thinking of rewarding the most helpful colleague during the event, then a few days before the company party you can ask colleagues to nominate coworkers. The 3-5 colleagues who receive the most nominations can then be voted on later. Even if someone does not win the vote, it is in itself a great recognition just to have made it into the vote. This is certainly great confirmation that their colleagues are grateful for their help. And for the others it can be a good motivating force to help their colleagues more.

Make the evening exciting with a raffle draw 

Everyone loves a raffle, so it is worth deploying this at larger corporate events. At the same time, if you do it cleverly, you can even increase the number of CHEQ subscribers through it. You can achieve this by drawing the CHEQ registration number instead of raffle tickets. You can do this very simply and spectacularly. Before the draw, download the up-to-date user list into an Excel spreadsheet. Only the serial numbers, the names and one piece of data needed for unambiguous identification, since if 5 Tímea Szabós work at your company, it should be clear to everyone who the winner is. On the internet you can find numerous sites that help with drawing random numbers. One rather spectacular site spins a wheel of fortune and then, scattering confetti, congratulates the winner with the number drawn. It is worth projecting this onto a big screen, if a display is part of the on-site setup. An excited atmosphere will be guaranteed.

Charity bake sale and auction

Christmas is also the holiday of love and giving. At such times everyone is more willing to help others and becomes more generous. And the company Christmas party would be greatly enhanced by a fundraising programme where colleagues could sell their baked goods or put other items up for auction. The amount collected this way could then go to a charitable organisation. Exactly which organisation the money would go to can also be put to a vote. You choose 3-5 organisations and deliver the amount to the foundation that receives the most votes.

I hope I have managed to give you inspiration to organise a fantastic and special company Christmas party for your colleagues. If you have any further questions about how CHEQ can support this, then request a free demo!