Company Culture &amp; Team Building

Creative Employee Awards Beyond Employee of the Month

Move beyond Employee of the Month with creative employee awards that recognize the many ways your team contributes. Discover ideas for celebrating teamwork, innovation, exceptional service, and problem-solving.

Meeting Opening Rituals: How 2–3 Minute Connection Moments Help Teams Collaborate Better

Transform the first few minutes of every meeting with simple opening rituals that help teams connect, focus, and collaborate. Explore practical ideas like two-word check-ins, gratitude rounds, emoji polls, and quick resets to create more engaging, productive meetings.

Heritage Month Awareness Campaigns: The ERG Leader's Free Playbook

A practical, zero-budget playbook for ERG leaders to educate the organization about cultural heritage months through newsletters, Slack and Teams posts, and intranet content built on member stories and well-sourced history.

Quick Wins Celebration: How 10 Minutes of Recognition Can Build Positive Team Momentum

Quick wins celebrations help teams recognize progress, celebrate small achievements, and build positive momentum. Discover a simple 10-minute recognition practice that strengthens appreciation, engagement, and team culture through everyday wins.

How to Plan Your First Company Offsite for a Remote Team

Planning your first company offsite for a remote team? Learn 5 key steps to make it productive and memorable, from setting clear goals and getting logistics right to building an engaging agenda, preparing attendees, and gathering feedback.

The Ultimate Workplace Halloween Checklist: Remote & In-Person Ideas

Plan a Halloween your team will actually enjoy. This checklist covers remote and in-person activities, costumes, snacks, swag, prizes and inclusive tips.

Weekly Team Development: How to Turn Regular Meetings Into Moments of Growth

Weekly meetings can be more than status updates. Learn how to build weekly team development into your meeting rhythm with simple activities for connection, recognition, reflection, collaboration, and growth that help teams work better together.

Quarterly Strategic Sessions: How to Align Teams, Strengthen Planning, and Support Growth

Meeting reflection practices help teams learn from every meeting. Discover simple reflection prompts and habits that improve communication, strengthen collaboration, and make future meetings more engaging, focused, and productive.

8 Tips to Make Your Company Attractive to Remote Talent in 2026

Remote talent has more choices than ever. Learn 8 practical ways to make your company stand out in 2026, including flexible policies, better onboarding, transparent pay, stronger remote leadership, recognition, and clear paths for career growth.

Problem-Solving Lightning Rounds: How to Generate Actionable Ideas in 10–15 Minutes

Micro-team building activities help teams strengthen trust, communication, and engagement through small, repeatable moments. Explore simple ideas that fit naturally into meetings, check-ins, and the everyday rhythm of work.

Daily Rhythm Enhancement: How to Turn Routine Work Moments Into Culture-Building Rituals

Culture is built in everyday moments. Learn how daily rhythm enhancement can transform meetings, check-ins, Slack prompts, and 1:1s into meaningful rituals that strengthen connection, recognition, productivity, and team engagement without adding more to the calendar.

Office Escape Room Ideas for Small, Hybrid, and Remote Teams

Office escape rooms turn an ordinary team activity into a race against the clock. Here are fun escape room ideas for small, hybrid, and remote teams, plus a few tips to make sure nobody gets left behind.

Rotating Meeting Roles: How to Increase Engagement and Build Leadership Skills in Every Meeting

Rotating meeting roles help teams share ownership, increase participation, and develop leadership skills. Discover practical roles like facilitator, timekeeper, energy monitor, and note-taker to create more engaging, collaborative, and productive meetings.

Rapid Decision-Making Sprints: A 15–20 Minute Format for Clearer Team Decisions

Rapid decision-making sprints help teams move from discussion to action in just 15–20 minutes. Discover a simple framework to present options, gather input, build alignment, and commit to clear next steps without endless meetings.

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11+ Workplace Sustainability Ideas that Human Resources Can Adopt

Businesses everywhere are finding ways to minimize negative impacts on the environment. But to create a sustainable workplace (and save the planet), organizations need the help of their trusty HR team.

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The Truth Behind Zoom Fatigue (And What You Can Do About It)

Lee Rubin dissects the term "zoom fatigue" and shares ways to squash the feeling once and for all.

Teaming Up with Your Employees to Save the Planet

What workplace sustainability means, why it's crucial to care about, and ways you can make it happen.

Confetti's Core Company Values

Check out our blog post on Confetti's company values & how they drive our long term mission to create happier, more holistic workspaces.

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5 Remote Leadership Skills Necessary for Success

Confetti's CEO, Lee Rubin, discussed the 5 key skills needed to develop a strong remote leadership culture. Read to learn more.

How We Grew Revenue 600% by Focusing on Customer Happiness

Read how Confetti grew revenue 600% by focusing on customer happiness.

3 Tips for Building A Gender-Inclusive Workplace

Women’s History Month is the perfect time to ensure your office is a great place to work for women. Here are tips on how!

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Neck Stretches For People Who Have Been Sitting All Day. Wait - That’s All of Us.

If you’re like me, you’re probably hunkered down in front of your computer all day these last few weeks in your attempt to both stay at home and seize the day.

ERG Meeting Agenda & Facilitation Templates

Pre-built agendas for kickoffs, monthly convenings, quarterly planning, and retrospectives with facilitator prompts, so ERG leaders can run meetings members actually want to attend.

Annual ERG Planning Calendar: The Year-at-a-Glance Guide for ERG Leaders

Year-at-a-glance planning with rhythm suggestions for meetups, cultural celebrations, mentorship circles, and leadership forums.

Cultural Celebrations at Work: The Activation Ideas Bank for Every Heritage Month

A practical ideas bank for HR, people teams, and ERG leaders who want cultural celebrations people actually show up for, with month-by-month activations, five proven formats, a six-week plan, and Confetti's free Cultural Planning guide with 174 celebrations across 12 ERGs.

Live-Hosted DEI Experiences: The Planner's Guide to Booking Sessions That Actually Land

A practical guide for ERG leaders, HR, and People teams on choosing, booking, and running facilitator-led DEI experiences for heritage months, ERG events, and cultural celebrations, with a year-round calendar, budget table, and planning checklist.

How to Run a 90-Day Preventive Care Campaign at Work

A practical, privacy-first playbook for HR teams running a 90-day preventive care push, with a week-by-week plan, barrier-busting ideas, copy-paste templates, ways to partner with ERGs, and how to measure success without touching health data.

ERG Charter & Governance Doc: A Free Template for ERG Leaders

A practical guide and free template for ERG leaders who want to formalize their group, with the nine sections every charter needs, sample leadership roles and terms, decision-making rules, and a step-by-step plan to write and ratify it.

ERG Starter Kit: How to Launch an Employee Resource Group (Free Templates Inside)

A complete, copy-and-paste starter kit for anyone launching an employee resource group, from the first mission statement to a full year of programming.

Team-Building Games With ChatGPT: What Actually Works

ChatGPT can host, time, and record a team-building game, but it cannot read the room. Here are four game formats that work, plus the prompt and privacy rules to set before you play.

Quick Team Energy Check: A 2-Minute Ritual to Help Meetings Start With More Focus

Start meetings with more focus using a simple 2-minute team energy check. Discover practical ways to gauge energy, align priorities, and help teams collaborate more effectively before diving into the agenda.

Closing Appreciation Circles: How to End Meetings With Recognition and Positive Momentum

Creative Employee Awards Beyond Employee of the Month

Meeting Opening Rituals: How 2–3 Minute Connection Moments Help Teams Collaborate Better

Heritage Month Awareness Campaigns: The ERG Leader's Free Playbook

Quick Wins Celebration: How 10 Minutes of Recognition Can Build Positive Team Momentum

How to Plan Your First Company Offsite for a Remote Team

The Ultimate Workplace Halloween Checklist: Remote & In-Person Ideas

Plan a Halloween your team will actually enjoy. This checklist covers remote and in-person activities, costumes, snacks, swag, prizes and inclusive tips.

Weekly Team Development: How to Turn Regular Meetings Into Moments of Growth

Quarterly Strategic Sessions: How to Align Teams, Strengthen Planning, and Support Growth

8 Tips to Make Your Company Attractive to Remote Talent in 2026

Problem-Solving Lightning Rounds: How to Generate Actionable Ideas in 10–15 Minutes

Daily Rhythm Enhancement: How to Turn Routine Work Moments Into Culture-Building Rituals

Why Workplace Friendships Run the Business

Workplace friendships are more than a perk—they're a competitive advantage. Explore the research behind stronger engagement, better collaboration, and higher retention, plus practical ways to build meaningful connections without sacrificing professionalism.

How to Facilitate Values Exploration Discussions With Your Team

Discover how to lead values exploration discussions that help employees connect company values to real workplace behaviors. Explore facilitation tips, discussion prompts, and practical exercises that build trust, improve communication, and strengthen team culture.

Remote Inclusion Beyond Events: 7 Daily Practices to Build Belonging in Distributed Teams

Remote belonging isn’t built in events—it’s built in daily habits. Learn 7 practical ways to improve inclusion in distributed teams through clear communication, async workflows, recognition, feedback, learning, decision-making, and informal connection that actually sticks.

How to Host Peer Recognition Circles at Work

Discover how to create effective peer recognition circles that encourage appreciation, strengthen trust, and celebrate employee contributions. This guide covers formats, facilitation tips, prompts, schedules, and best practices for building a culture of recognition.

The Rise of "Drop-In" Holiday Parties for Flexible Work Cultures

Traditional holiday parties don't fit today's flexible workforce. Drop-in celebrations let employees connect on their own schedule, boosting participation, inclusion, and genuine engagement—without forcing everyone into the same room at the same time.

How to Plan Your Next Team Event Around What Your Team Is Actually Struggling With

Most team-building events boost morale for a day, but the real problems remain. Discover how to plan problem-solving team-building activities that tackle communication gaps, process issues, trust challenges, and more—while creating measurable improvements for your team.

How to Build Company Culture Without an Office

Office culture doesn’t exist by default anymore. Here’s how to intentionally build connection, trust, and culture on a fully remote team.

The Role of Shared Experiences in Remote Team Culture

Remote teams don’t bond by default. Here’s how shared experiences can turn work from transactional to meaningful — and build real connection across distance.

Communication and Culture: 7 Tips for a Stronger Workplace

Communication shapes culture more than anything else. Here are 7 simple, practical ways to improve clarity, alignment, and how your team works together every day.

Remote Culture Is Breaking: How to Build a Team That Feels Connected Without Forced Fun

Remote teams don’t need more forced fun — they need better connection. Here’s how to build a culture that actually feels human, without adding more meetings.

Onboarding Activities That Help New Employees Feel Part of the Team Faster

Onboarding sets the stage for what new employees can expect when it comes to how they'll be treated at your organization (and, let's be honest, how organized and ready your organization is to have them as part of the team).

Work Values: Does Your Team Know Theirs?

Most teams can recite their company values. Far fewer can tell you what their team actually values about how they work together. That gap—between the values on the wall and the culture in the room—is where teams quietly lose trust, energy, and alignment. Here's how to close it.

Employee Empowerment: What It Really Is (And How to Build It)

"Empowerment" is one of those words that sounds great until you try to actually do it. You give people more autonomy, tell them to own it — and nothing quite shifts. This piece reframes what employee empowerment actually is and what has to exist before it can happen.

75+ Workplace Fall & Halloween Icebreaker Questions

Want to cozy up your team meetings this fall? Seasonal icebreakers make it easy to spark laughter, build trust, and strengthen connections. Try these festive fall and Halloween-themed questions for meetings, events, or team-building sessions 🎃

30 Quick Team Building Activities for Busy Teams

Team building exercises don't have to take an hour. Kick off your team meeting with these fast activities that improve collaboration and problem-solving skills while boosting team spirit!

Offsite Planning Template & Survey

Wondering how to make your offsite meetings both fun and productive? Discover ideas to help you boost collaboration and creativity when away from the office.

36 Sports Trivia Questions for the Office

Sports trivia is an excellent way to enliven your office environment and bring your team together. Discover the best questions to ask and how to use trivia games to build a positive culture and enhance interpersonal connection.

100+ of the Best This or That Questions for Work

This or that is a fun game to get teams talking. Use these this or that questions the next time you want to break the ice or as a way to kick off your team building activities!

50+ Creative Prompt Ideas for Your Next Virtual Scavenger Hunt

Planning a virtual or digital scavenger hunt? Here are some virtual scavenger hunt ideas from Confetti’s Games Team that are sure to inspire stories and connection-building!

50+ Holiday Icebreaker Questions for Work

Discover 25+ inclusive holiday icebreaker questions to spark fun and meaningful conversations at work. Perfect for fostering connection and celebrating the diversity of the holiday season!

75+ Workplace Icebreaker Questions

In-person and remote teams alike can all benefit from some good team icebreaker questions for work. Want to kick off your virtual meetings getting to know you fun? Lucky for you, Confetti’s got the ultimate list of icebreaker questions for virtual team building.

35+ Engaging Trivia Questions for Work Meetings

Let’s be honest — the phrase “work meetings” doesn’t usually spark joy... But toss in some fun trivia games and you might change your mind! Want to find out how to spice up your team meeting? Keep reading and get the answers (and questions! 😉)

30+ Pop Culture Trivia Questions for the Office

Show your team your pop culture knowledge, from sports to movies and more!

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8 Free Activities That Improve Workplace Culture

We all know the benefits that team outings and events have on workplace culture. The good news is, effective team building can be free! Read on for easy ideas you can implement to share the good vibes at work without spending a dime.

5 Templates for Approaching Budget Discussions with Your Team

One of the first steps to solidifying your company’s team building strategy is creating and getting approval for a budget. We get it though - this can sometimes be intimidating! Confetti founder & CEO Lee Rubin put these five templates together to get you started.

Event Planning Survey Template

Want to adopt a better event planning strategy for your team? This survey template can help! Or...we can do it for you for FREE.

How to Start a Wellness Tip Sharing Program at Work

Discover how to create a wellness tip sharing program that helps employees exchange practical wellbeing ideas, build healthier work habits, and foster a more supportive workplace through simple, inclusive, and low-pressure wellness routines.

How to Make Summer at Work Special for Employees ☀️

Make summer at work more meaningful with employee engagement ideas focused on flexibility, recognition, wellness, belonging, and fun. Learn how to create a seasonal program that helps employees recharge, stay connected, and feel appreciated all summer long.

The Modern Standing Desk Policy

Discover practical ways to build a flexible standing desk policy that encourages movement, supports employee wellness, and fits modern workplaces.

The Workplace Mental Health Resources Library Playbook

Discover how to create a simple, accessible mental health resource hub that helps employees quickly find support, wellness tools, and workplace guidance.

The 60-Second Survival Guide: Mindfulness Minutes for People Who Hate Meditating

Learn simple 60-second mindfulness techniques that help teams reduce stress, reset mentally, and stay focused without disrupting the workday.

The Anti-Challenge Playbook: Habits That Actually Stick

Learn how to create low-pressure wellness challenges that encourage healthier habits, better boundaries, and sustainable employee engagement at work.

The "Actually Useful" Wellness Survey Guide

Discover how to build workplace wellness surveys that feel useful, encourage honest feedback, and help improve employee well-being and work culture.

The Workplace Wellness Program Starter Toolkit

Discover practical steps to create a workplace wellness program that supports employee well-being, encourages engagement, and fits naturally into daily work life.

The Workday Survival Guide: How to Stay Sane Without the Fluff

A practical, low-pressure guide to staying sane at work with 60-second resets, focus hygiene, transition rituals, end-of-day boundaries, and a simple rollout plan for HR teams.

How to Launch a Healthy Recipe Swap Program Employees Will Participate In

A practical guide to creating a healthy recipe swap program that builds connection, encourages feel-good eating habits, and keeps participation easy with themes, templates, spotlights, and low-pressure prompts.

Virtual Mental Health Awareness: A Practical Guide for Real Engagement

Learn how to create meaningful virtual mental health awareness initiatives with simple, low-pressure activities that support employee well-being, connection, and healthier remote work habits.

How to Launch a Walking Meeting Program (That Actually Sticks)

A practical guide to creating a walking meeting program employees actually use, with clear guidelines, launch messaging, accessibility tips, leadership buy-in, and simple ways to measure success.

How to Create a Wellness Newsletter Employees Actually Read

A practical guide to building a wellness newsletter employees actually read, with scannable formats, monthly themes, interactive ideas, tone tips, sample outlines, and simple ways to measure engagement.

45 Unique Mental Health Awareness Month Ideas & Team Building Activities for Work

Support your team this May with 45 low-pressure Mental Health Awareness Month activities, from no-meeting days and creative workshops to wellness sessions, team bonding, and meaningful perks.

How HR Leaders Can Prepare for Mental Health Awareness Month (Without Overwhelming Their Team)

A practical guide for HR leaders planning Mental Health Awareness Month, with steps to audit resources, focus priorities, equip managers, plan communications, and build sustainable mental health support beyond May.

Confetti’s Next Big Chapter

After 13 years of building experiences that bring people together, Confetti has been acquired by Stadium. The team, customers, hosts, vendors and Confetti brand are coming along for an exciting new chapter. 🎉

Cross-Team Integration: How to Break Down Silos and Improve Collaboration Between Departments

Break down silos and improve collaboration with cross-team integration. Discover practical strategies for department workshops, cross-functional planning, and shared rituals that help teams align, communicate better, and achieve common goals.

Why Career Development Is Becoming a Retention Strategy Rather Than a Recruiting Tool

Career development is no longer just a recruiting tool—it's one of the strongest drivers of employee retention. Discover why investing in learning, internal mobility, and growth keeps top talent engaged and committed for the long term.

How to Host Skill Sharing Sessions at Work

Discover how to host effective skill sharing sessions at work where employees teach hobbies and expertise. Includes ideas, formats, and tips to build connection, encourage peer learning, and create a recurring culture of sharing across teams.

Question of the Day Ideas for Work: Professional and Personal Prompts to Build Team Connection

Explore 200+ Question of the Day ideas for work to help employees connect, build trust, and spark meaningful conversations. Find professional, personal, fun, and reflective prompts for remote, hybrid, and in-office teams that support stronger workplace relationships.

How to Facilitate Values Exploration Discussions With Your Team

Small Team, Big Impact: How to Scale Employee Engagement with Limited Time & Budget

Want to boost employee engagement on a small team without breaking the bank? Here are practical ways to do that.

Employee Offboarding Checklist: How to Handle Paperwork, Access Management, and Knowledge Transfer

A structured offboarding process protects your business from security, compliance, and knowledge-loss risks. Learn how to manage paperwork, revoke access, transfer critical knowledge, and create a smooth employee exit experience with a practical offboarding checklist.

8 Tips for Keeping New Remote Hires Engaged in Their First 90 Days

The first 90 days can make or break a remote hire. Discover 8 practical strategies to improve engagement, build connection, increase retention, and help new team members thrive from day one through day 90.

How to Plan Your Next Team Event Around What Your Team Is Actually Struggling With

🎯 How to Design a 90-Day Engagement Plan for New Employees

A strong 90-day engagement plan helps new hires build confidence, understand expectations, and contribute independently. The first three months should focus on clarity, support, and real ownership, not just onboarding tasks.

Why Employee Engagement is Directly Linked to Retention and Profitability

Employee engagement is more than job satisfaction. See how engaged teams reduce turnover, improve performance, and help businesses grow.

The Mid-Quarter Course Correction: How to Adjust Before the June Panic Sets In

In May, the dust from the Q2 launch has settled, but the frantic energy of the June sprint hasn't arrived yet. This Mid-Quarter Reset is a strategic "sanity check" sitting right in the middle!

President’s Day Team Building: Leadership Lessons + Quotes That Actually Land

Turn President’s Day into a meaningful team building opportunity. Use leadership quotes, reflection prompts, and structured activities to spark connection, alignment, and thoughtful engagement across in-person, hybrid, or remote teams.

Can Fun Really Improve Productivity in Remote Teams?

Remote work doesn’t have to be a drag. Learn 5 practical ways fun can boost productivity, engagement, and collaboration for distributed teams every day.