Employee engagement and team building ideas by industry

A team building plan that works in a software company falls flat on a hospital ward or a construction site. Shift patterns, how many people sit at a desk, and whether staff even have a company email all change what an engagement program has to look like. These guides take one sector at a time.

Pick your industry

Each guide covers how work is organised in that sector, the engagement ideas that fit it, and how a company-wide step challenge can include people who never share a room. There are 11 guides so far, and we add more as we hear from new sectors.

Employee engagement and team building for healthcare staff

Nurses, care aides, technicians and support staff rarely get the team building that office workers do.

Employee engagement activities for manufacturing and factory workers

Engagement programs are usually designed for people at desks.

Staff wellness and team building ideas for teachers

Teachers spend their days building community for students and rarely get time to build it for themselves.

Employee engagement and team building activities for retail employees

Retail teams are hard to bring together.

Employee engagement activities for the construction industry

Construction teams are spread across job sites, work early and long days, and rarely see the office.

Employee engagement ideas for government and public sector employees

Public sector teams run on tight budgets and public scrutiny, across departments that rarely work together and offices spread over a region.

Employee engagement ideas for financial services teams

Banks, insurers, credit unions and accounting firms share the same engagement problem: long hours at a desk, hard deadlines like quarter end and tax season, and teams split between branches, head office and home.

Team building ideas for IT services, staffing and consulting firms

In professional services firms, people spend their week on client work: billable hours, tickets, placements and deliverables.

Team building ideas for marketing and creative agencies

Agencies run on people and deadlines.

Employee wellness and team building ideas for law firms

Law firms run on billable hours, deadlines set by courts and clients, and a culture where sitting at a desk late is the norm.

Team building ideas for software and technology companies

Software, telecom and games companies hire people who sit in front of a screen for most of the day, often from home, often across several time zones.

What every guide has in common

• Everyone can take part. Walking needs no skill, no equipment and no spare hour, so deskless staff, shift workers and remote teams join on equal terms.
• It runs on the phone people already carry. Steps sync from Apple Health, Google Fit and common wearables, on iOS, Android and the web.
• Teams beat individuals. Team and department leaderboards turn a personal habit into something colleagues talk about every day.
• It is bilingual. Every challenge runs in English and French, which matters for Quebec and national Canadian teams.

Related guides: Employee engagement activities · Team building activities for work · A unique employee benefit

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