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Team-building events can feel like a mountain of planning, but they pay serious dividends for your team’s motivation levels and the health of your office culture. Whether you’re in-person or remote, you can make your team building at work even more memorable by adding a gifting component. Giving your employees a corporate team-building gift could be the difference between a paint-by-numbers team-building event and a...

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Team-building events can feel like a mountain of planning, but they pay serious dividends for your team’s motivation levels and the health of your office culture.

Whether you’re in-person or remote, you can make your team building at work even more memorable by adding a gifting component.

Giving your employees a corporate team-building gift could be the difference between a paint-by-numbers team-building event and a memorable bonding experience.

According to Forbes, 80% of employers said gifting helped improve their relationship with their employees. It was reported that those who receive a gift feel valued, which improves employee retention at the workplace.

Don’t wait to upgrade your team building. Here are the 10 best gifts for team building at work in 2022.

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List of Team Building Gift Ideas For Groups

Team building gifts are items, gift boxes, care packages, and all sorts of goodies that can help promote team building at your business. Whether your team-building gift is used during your next bonding event or given out as a goodie bag at the end of your activity, it can be a great idea to send your employees home with a new gift they can enjoy!

1) Holiday Team Building Care Package

“Make the season merry with a care package of holiday goodies.”

Whether you’re hosting an end-of-year holiday party in the office, having a Zoom happy hour to toast the new year, or enjoying Christmas movie trivia, you should improve your team-building activity and office morale with a holiday team-building care package. With some tasty seasonal treats, holiday socks, a comforting candle, and other goodies, this gift basket will be a great take-home gift for any holiday event.

Try pairing this team-building gift with experiences – Holiday Hijinks

2) Happy Hour Box

“Cheers! Raise a glass to making the most of your team building with the Happy Hour Box.”

Whether you’re meeting in person or having a virtual team-building event, a happy hour will allow your team to unwind and hang out after a day of hard work. To improve your happy hour, you should send a Happy Hour Box team building kit. With a wine tumbler, a cocktail kit, and some top-tier snacks, employees can use their new acquisitions to make team-building happy hour even better.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Virtual Happy Hour Trivia

3) Icebreaker Box

“Make sure your icebreakers kick things off in style!”

The first step toward team unity is usually the hardest, with those initial connections sometimes being difficult to make. Being a remote employee or part of a hybrid team can make team building even tougher. That’s why you need to pay extra attention to your team’s initial icebreakers! To do so, you should send everyone on the team the Icebreaker Box. This employee appreciation gift contains a tumbler, a cocktail kit, icebreaker games, and a slew of great snacks—AKA everything you need to have a memorable team-building icebreaker.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Coworker Feud

4) VIP Treatment

“Treat every employee at your team building like a VIP.”

Set a precedent for your team and show that everyone is a VIP with the VIP Treatment box. This luxury box is the perfect corporate team-building gift, full of impressive tech gifts and customizable items that can feature the company logo. That includes a wireless speaker, a portable charger an Ember heated mug, and more. This quality gift will make your whole team feel like, well, a Very Important Person at your next team-building event.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Company offsite

5) Snack Box

“Get their taste buds involved in your next team building with a Snack Box!”

Snacks are pretty much guaranteed to improve any team-building event. Going on a nature walk as an outdoor team-building activity? Snacks at the end as a reward. Playing trivia? Snacks on the table to munch on. Having dinner? Snacks make great hors d’oeuvres. You get the picture. Either get a large Snack Box (full of healthy, delicious snacks) for the office or gift your employees individual snack care packages to enjoy at their home office.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience Virtual Wine Tasting

6) Popcorn Time!

“Get your team building event popping with this snack-tacular gift.”

If you’re hosting a movie night in the office or want to give your team the chance to buff up their knowledge before a movie trivia night, the Popcorn Snack Time box is a simple, yummy employee recognition gift. This gift comes with Opopop popcorn pop cups, which allow you to easily make delicious flavored popcorn. If you’re having a hybrid team-building event, just make sure you don’t get butter on your keyboard!

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Movie Buffs

7) The Sock Set

“Keep your feet warm and your team happy.”

Socks. They’re the ultimate stocking stuffer, the ideal birthday gift, the treat-yourself mall purchase… and now the best way to bolster your office team building. If you’re hosting a corporate retreat, why not keep everyone comfy during their overnight stay with a set of comfy, creative socks? Whether they show pictures of party balloons, pizza slices, or mugs of beer, these personality-filled (and soon-to-be feet-filled) socks will bring a little extra joy to any team-building event.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Wild Goose Chase

8) Oil and Vinegar Bottles

“Upgrade their kitchen with the Oil and Vinegar Bottles gift set.”

A classy, high-quality gift to improve anyone’s kitchen decor, the Oil and Vinegar Bottles is a fitting employee recognition gift that will push your team-building event to the next level. This gift comes with two hand-blown glass bottles with oak stoppers, which can house oil and vinegar, or any liquid you need in the kitchen. The perfect gift for amateur chefs, the Oil and Vinegar Bottles will be used for years to come, improving their next dinner party or adding a little extra class to their kitchen island.

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Olive Oil Tasting

9) Cold Brew + Tea Package

“Make sure everyone is attentive for your next team-building with a caffeinated gift—the Cold Brew + Tea Package!”

For a morning team-building or a virtual team celebration, enliven the situation with a Cold Brew + Tea package. This gift contains a wonderful item—a cold brew maker from Ovalware. This simple, well-designed coffee maker fits in the fridge and assures your team will be able to enjoy high-quality coffee or tea, every day. All they need to do is grab their coffee mug and get pouring!

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience: ☕️ Coffee & Chocolate Party

10) Simple Pottery Kit

“Help you sculpt the ultimate team-building event.”

Make an impact and encourage creativity with the DIY Simple Pottery Kit. This employee wellness gift can either be part of the team building, where everyone uses their pottery kit, or a gift for them to enjoy after work. A great way to destress while unlocking creativity, the Simple Pottery Ki contains clay, a cutting tool, paint, and brushes—which means you can shape and decorate a pot (or any other creation that inspires you).

Try pairing this team-building gift with an experience:  Recreate Famous Artworks

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