Looking for an original corporate activity to boostengagement, create a memorable experience and strengthen team cohesion?
In this article, we take a look at the best ideas (face-to-face, hybrid and remote) for animating a corporate evening or event, with a focus on digital and mobile formats that make working together fun.
The aim is to help you quickly set up a corporate event that strengthens bonds and reveals hidden talents.
Contents :
- How to choose your corporate entertainment (and avoid the pitfalls)
- 17 ideas for original corporate activities to strengthen cohesion
- Corporate evening entertainment: 10 formats that work in the evening
- How OuiLive simplifies set-up
- Express checklist for setting up your corporate event
- FAQ - Corporate entertainment
How to choose your corporate entertainment (and avoid the pitfalls)
Before listing ideas, clarify your objectives:
- training,
- sales performance,
- well-being,
- onboarding,
- social engagement
- simple fun.
Then frame: number of participants, duration, budget, logistical constraints, accessibility, and success indicators (participation, satisfaction, knowledge acquired).
Keep in mind three key criteria for creating a memorable experience:
- Immersion: promote an immersive experience (storytelling, challenges, real-time interaction).
- Inclusion: adapt the level of difficulty and offer a variety of roles so that everyone can contribute.
- Measurement: set up simple analytics to monitor your KPIs and iterate.
17 ideas for original corporate activities to strengthen cohesion
1. Escape game (physical, virtual or via app): solve puzzles as a team to strengthen cohesion and decision-making.
2. Murder party: an immersive investigation in which each participant plays a role; ideal for revealing hidden talents.
3. Connected treasure hunt: team trails, QR codes and photo/video challenges to anchor your culture.
4. Musical or cultural blind tests: perfect for an original, fast-paced, inter-generational event.
5. Corporate culture quiz: showcase in-house initiatives and values, in a gamified mode.
6. Impact challenges: a series of fun activities focusing on eco-gestures, soft mobility and solidarity.
7. Hybrid Olympics: physical and digital mini-challenges for large groups.
8. Improv theater workshop: working on communication, active listening and creativity.
9. Urban rally: discover a neighborhood in a different way by solving themed riddles.
10. Cooking workshop or cocktail challenge: collaboration, timing and the pleasure of doing things together.
11. Serious game learning (safety, compliance, products): memory anchoring through games.
12. Retrogaming or e-sport tournament: a unifying, accessible and spectacular format.
13. Self-service VR and AR: immersive experience stands to vary the pleasures.
14. Wellness workshop (breathing, guided micro-naps, mobility): a useful and much-appreciated break.
15. Hackathon commercial express: product pitch in pairs, public vote and instant feedback.
16. Creative photo/video challenges: tell the story of your corporate event with a final montage.
17. Collaborative fresco (values, vision, CSR): co-construction that aligns and engages.
Corporate evening entertainment: 10 formats that work in the evening
1. Themed evenings (80s, cinema, casino, tropical, futuristic) and coherent scenography.
2. Dummy casino (chips & dealers): user-friendly, perfect for free circulation.
3. Giant quiz/blind test with scoreboard: guaranteed energy before the DJ set.
4. Photobooth challenges and photo hunt (list of objectives to be completed by each team).
5. Participative mini-shows (improv, safe stand-up, company cabaret).
6. Guided tastings (chocolates, coffees, mocktails) and sensory quizzes.
7. Virtual reality in rotating stations for risk-free thrills.
8. Arcade & retrogaming: nostalgia and friendly competition.
9. Minute mixology workshop: teams create and christen cocktails (non-alcoholic).
10. Prize-giving ceremony punctuated by flash challenges to keep your attention.
A successful corporate evening is above all about conviviality around experiences that are simple to launch, inclusive and measurable.
By using a variety of entertainment ideas, you create a playground where everyone can find their place, where teams can work together, and where your messages (values, culture, products, CSR) can take root over the long term.
With OuiLive, you can turn these intentions into concrete results:
- A mobile design platform,
- Customize and deploy your animations in minutes,
- Track rankings in real time
- Valuing everyone's contributions.
Whether your objective is cohesion, onboarding, sales performance or impact, you have a rich catalog to orchestrate a memorable corporate evening centered on conviviality around fun activities and fueled by entertainment ideas that really engage.
How OuiLive simplifies set-up
With OuiLive, one platform, hundreds of corporate mobile games :
- choose a template,
- personalize your content (quizzes, polls, photo/video challenges, connected activities)
- deploy an animation in just a few minutes.
Employees participate from their smartphones, and you can trackengagement in real time with advanced analytics (rankings, teams, rewards).
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Express checklist for setting up your corporate event
- Scope : objective, audience, format (face-to-face/hybrid/remote), duration, budget.
- Concept : theme, story, game mechanics, inclusiveness criteria.
- Internal communication : teasing, dedicated channel, tutorials, ambassadors.
- Logistics : rooms, equipment, accessibility, security, catering.
- Game referent : clear rules, timing, contingency management.
- Rewards : badges, points, symbolic gifts or charitable donations.
- Measurement :engagement dashboard, final quiz, on-the-spot feedback.
- Follow-up : after the event, sharing highlights and action plans.
FAQ - Corporate entertainment
What kind of corporate evening entertainment should you choose on a small budget?
Focus on formats with high social intensity and low logistics: blind tests, corporate culture quizzes, photo/video challenges, "paper" murder parties, indoor mini-olympics. These are fun events that are quick to set up and highly suitable for large groups.
How can you create an immersive experience without hiring an external venue?
Work on narrative (a theme, a mission), clear roles and collaborative mechanics. Mobile game apps allow you to script and orchestrate the event on your premises.
What are the most effective ideas for team-building activities?
Those that impose positive interdependence: escape games, connected treasure hunts, urban rallies, improv workshops. Here, we learn to work together in a playful atmosphere.
How do you measure the impact of a corporate event?
Track participation rates, team activity, quiz progress, content production (photos/videos) and satisfaction. Compare them with your HR, internal, CSR or sales objectives.
Sources :
Gallup - How to Improve Employee Engagement
Frontiers in Psychology (2024) - Team-building interventions & cohesion (meta-analysis)
PMC (2017) - Effectiveness of Teamwork Training (meta-analysis)