Hybrid Events

The biggest challenge in hybrid events is making both in-person and remote online participants feel actively engaged. Download our Hybrid Events Ebook to discover four crucial elements for success.

Employees have always physically worked together. As companies grew, they established multiple locations and relied on in-person meetings to keep workers connected to one another and the company. Then the pandemic hit.

Video conferencing already existed for corporate meetings, but what about events? We developed over 50 virtual team events to satisfy corporate America’s need to stay connected during the pandemic. Now, what about remote employees? How can you have a live event that also includes your remote workers?

Our Hybrid Events engage both in-person event attendees and a remote audience in a fun and cohesive experience. BEST uses powerful, proprietary, event applications to deliver hybrid events which optimize a shared experience that both in-person and virtual attendees find engaging and valuable.

Innovative event technology solutions allow us to create dynamic methods to connect in-person and remote participants in a cohesive experience.

Remote participants not only see and hear the action at the live event, but they can also engage with their teammates onsite using our event apps to answer trivia and score points the team needs to advance through the program.

Hybrid events allow teams in multiple office locations across the country and around the world to gather in a meaningful way without the expense of travel for attendees.

Best Corporate Events Hybrid programming uses our sister company SmartHunts®’ event apps, which feature exciting new Zoom® integration. We use these proprietary event apps to connect remote participants to their teammates at an in-person event, creating a live and interactive hybrid program.

This integration makes event facilitation more efficient because there is no need to connect individual zoom meetings on multiple iPads and manage breakout rooms to every iPad. Our facilitators send the remote and in-person team members into breakout rooms via our central control of the broadcast platform using the SmartHunts® App.

During the event, remote participants join their in-person teams via the ZOOM®/SmartHunts® App integration and play along using the App on their phones and Zoom® on their computers. In-person Teams have two iPads, one for playing the game, the other to see and interact with their remote teammates.

Above: At a Hybrid Bike Build Donation program, an In-Person team is taking a selfie with their remote teammates who are on the iPad behind them! Cameras around the room are broadcasting the event to all remote participants, while they interact with their in-house team using their own mobile devices to gain points, solve clues, answer trivia, and competing in fun, team challenges.

The Belbin 360° assessment is a tool used to evaluate an individual’s strengths and weaknesses within a team setting. The 360-degree feedback approach help individuals understand their strengths, improve teamwork and align their roles with their natural abilities.

Bike Build Donation® has been enjoyed for many years by groups large and small. This top selling bike building charity event continues to resonate with participants as they recall the joy of receiving their first bike.

Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, corporate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to young people. As the name suggests, teams are tasked to build high-quality guitars from custom designed kits. The finished guitars are then donated to teens through schools and other youth organizations.

In Build-A-Rollator, your group takes part in a build-a-rolling-walkers charity initiative, assembling high-quality Rollators that are donated to those in need through a selected nonprofit.

COLORS is a quick Behavioral Assessment, a simplified version of a 4-quadrant instrument. It can be done during the session or in advance and is an expedited and budget-friendly way of identifying participants’ styles.

This Delegation Styles course discusses how to better diagnose employees’ needs, effectively delegate, and set them up for success. We employ an assessment that identifies what area of delegation is most difficult for each participant and the best delegation practices to help develop those areas.

The DiSC Workshop is a powerful professional development experience designed to enhance individual self-awareness, improve team communication, and reduce interpersonal conflict. Built around the widely used DiSC behavioral model (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness), this highly interactive training session gives participants the tools to better understand themselves and others, so they can work more effectively together.

Donation Nation Care Packs is a meaningful team building experience that brings your group together to assemble care packages for community organizations that support people in need.Through a series of fun and interactive challenges, your group earns the materials used to create thoughtful packages that benefit homeless shelters, food banks, hospices, veterans’ groups, animal shelters, and many other community-focused agencies.

Our Essential Supervisory Skills workshop covers the essential responsibilities of a supervisor, and enhancing the skills that are required for new managers to be effective in their role.

Fostering Hope is a heartwarming team-building program that culminates with the assembly of care packages for Adoptive and Foster Care children filled with items recommended by networks that distribute care packs to deserving kids. Your group will complete tasks, challenges, and trivia to gain the points needed to purchase the items your team will need to complete their Fostering Hope care packs.

This virtual workshop will allow you to hone your skills as a leader and manager of virtual teams. Whether you are an experienced or newly appointed virtual leader, you will be given specific tools to help you take your leadership and your team from average to good to great! This course will take some of the great natural abilities of current leaders and give them the skills to translate that into their new role as virtual leaders. We also offer a 60-minute version of this program called Launching Your Virtual Teams

Kick off your group’s day with Morning Jumpstart! This fun and engaging program was developed based on requests from clients to create an event that can be delivered on any day of the week as a fun way to launch into a productive workday with smiles and camaraderie. Morning Jumpstart will promote team cohesion and enhance relationships through a fun series of games, challenges, and morning wake-up-themed activities.

This event will give your group a deep sense of patriotism as it works together to prepare care packages for people currently serving in the military. Teams will first engage in various point-based activities including trivia, puzzles and other problem-solving scenarios. The care packages are then assembled and decorated for donation to service men and women and their families.

Operation Toy Donation is a wonderfully meaningful program designed to benefit disadvantaged children. The program includes fun icebreakers and revolves around the assembling of children’s toys and necessities, which are packaged and festively wrapped. It’s the perfect charity team building event if your group wants to make a difference in the lives of children in need!

Inspired by the powerful documentary, Alive Inside, this heartwarming program is designed to help those living in nursing homes, particularly those individuals living with Alzheimer’s Disease or other causes of dementia. Your group will participate in activities with music and memory themes, earning MP3 players and other items to donate to the elderly afflicted with this terrible disease.

STEM Backpacks for Kids is a heart-warming, charitable, team-building program devoted to promoting and emphasizing the importance of education in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Strength Finders is a personality and talent assessment that helps individuals identify their natural strengths and how to use them effectively in their personal and professional lives.

While technology has revolutionized how the world does business, it has also created a crisis in time management. This program offers the necessary techniques and resources individuals and companies can use to gain back control of their time, with tools even the busiest within an organization can use with great effect. Participants will learn how to handle interruptions, the importance of long-term planning, prioritizing tasks and more.

Improve your group’s communication skills with this effective, challenging, multi-faceted team building event that requires each team to replicate a pre-built structure by using only verbal descriptions and high-quality communication skills through a chain of conversations.

60-minutes to success! This fun course is an excellent way for your team not only to learn how to better work with each other but also to do it in a humorous, energetic, and light-hearted way. Our “Understanding your Virtual Team: Strengthen your Relationships” workshop is a response to the sudden changes in how organizations and employees work together and engage remotely.

Our “Virtual DiSC Behavioral Assessment” workshop is a response to the sudden changes in the way in which organizations and employees work with each other and engage remotely. This workshop is designed to enhance participants’ ability to understand each other, communicate effectively via technology platforms, and collaborate as a high-functioning remote team. This virtual professional development workshop, designed to evoke self-discovery, serves as a vehicle for open discussion and conversations that will transcend participants’ professional lives.

Kick off your group’s day with Virtual Morning Jumpstart! This fun and engaging program was developed based on requests from clients to create an event that can be delivered on any day of the week as a fun way to launch into a productive workday with smiles and camaraderie. Virtual Morning Jumpstart will promote team cohesion and enhance relationships through a fun series of game-type challenges and morning wake-up-themed activities.

Wagon Build Donation benefits underprivileged preschool-age children, providing them with a classic learning tool to boost their coordination, imagination and much more. Teams will build full-size, red wagons for donation to a local charity, loading each one with a stuffed animal and children’s book. This program will leave your team feeling energized and with a sense of accomplishment, knowing they put smiles on the faces of children in need.

We Care for Schools benefits local schools that are in dire need of supplies, including pencils, paper, glue, paintbrushes, first aid kits, and more for the classroom, nurse’s office, and art room. While participating in fun activities and challenges delivered on iPads, your team will assemble bags full of these items for donation to the local school district. Participants will leave feeling great with the knowledge that they helped support a child’s education.

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