As summer winds down and employees return to work after their vacations, it can be a challenge to restart work routines and ramp back up to strong productivity. However, welcoming back refreshed employees can also be a perfect time to refresh your individual and team workflows for an even more productive second half of the year!

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Revive and strengthen company culture

One of the most important ways to kickstart work again after the summer is to bring employees together and reconnect as a team. When we’re more tuned in with our coworkers, we’re able to energize and inspire each other for our upcoming projects and common goals. To get started, set the tone for an engaging season at your organization by using Kahoot! 360 to host an interactive town hall meeting. Here, you can gather all employees to showcase your company roadmap for the months ahead, informing employees about what’s coming next and getting them excited to be part of it. Next, once people settle back into their regular working groups, teams can reconnect through a creative icebreaker activity or create an engaging team meeting that gets everyone involved.

 

Brainstorm to spark creativity and gather valuable insights

Rested and reinvigorated employees are key to unlocking innovation at work, so it’s critical during this period to provide employees with opportunities to spend some time getting creative and sharing their ideas. Our brainstorm feature makes it easy to host an interactive session that prompts employees to generate new ideas or offer feedback to identify areas for improvement. Depending on your team’s priorities, you may explore new product concepts, sales strategies, or simply ways of working better together. Employees’ contributions are then auto-categorized with AI, uncovering common themes. Finally, participants vote on their favorite ideas, not only boosting engagement but creating more buy-in and excitement for future activities.

Team brainstorming with an open-ended Kahoot! question

Get ready for training season with experiences that inspire

Many people coming back to work are also interested in resetting their learning and development goals. After the years we’ve spent at school, returning from summer holidays can still feel like the time to recommit to learning, so this can be a great opportunity to offer new training. Get started with the Kahoot! training template, or automatically generate a kahoot quiz or interactive presentation on any topic in seconds with our AI-enhanced generator. You can also transform your PDF training materials into kahoots or our microlearning story format. For a deeper and more comprehensive learning journey, create a Kahoot! Course that combines all the resources learners need, including documents and videos, kahoots, and stories.

Kahoot! course and story format

As employees gather back together, it’s exciting to see people return to work recharged and ready to offer fresh perspectives. Our tools and resources can support you to capture this energy and amplify it across your team or organization. By doing this, you not only help employees get back into the groove of their work routines; you also empower your workforce with new tools to fuel engagement, creativity, and innovation in the months and years ahead.

Get started today with Kahoot! 360 to set your team up for success in the second half of 2024 and beyond!