Project Overview

Find out how we helped Star Refrigeration with a virtual solution to get their team together for their annual get-together during COVID restrictions.

Star Refrigeration had their big 50th Anniversary celebration coming up. But there was one issue – we were in the height of COVID restrictions and there was no way to bring the team physically together. 

Read on to find out how our team at Maximillion helped Star Refrigeration put on a virtual celebration that left everyone uplifted and proud to have been part of marking their 50th Anniversary together.

The Challenge

Star Refrigeration wanted to bring the team together for their 50th Anniversary – but COVID was getting in the way!

Star Refrigeration would normally get together for one large company-wide event and each site would organise their own team-building sessions.

However, with restrictions in place, they approached us to explore how they could bring everyone together virtually and create an engaging itinerary for a broad range of staff, while also celebrating a very important milestone of 50 years of innovation, and keeping their sites operational throughout.

Our Solution

Our Star Refrigeration Virtual 50th Anniversary Experience was a fast-paced and fun event, complete with engaging virtual team building activities to bring the team together.

The key to delivering on the client’s outcomes was the pre-event engagement and communication which resulted in an itinerary that would engage their staff over three identical events over two days. This included an element of bespoke content in the game and a personalised design.

We aimed to maintain energy levels through the virtual experience, leaving everyone uplifted and proud to have been part of marking their 50th Anniversary together.

Top Trumps

The event began ahead of time, ensuring everyone had all the information and tech support they needed in advance of the event to join Zoom and download our app. Then it was into the fun!

On the day, everyone was welcomed by our event host with music and an ice-breaking warm-up with our energising and fun Team Top Trumps activity. A modern twist on the classic card game that got teams talking, breaking down barriers and helped them find out something new and surprising about their colleagues.

Each team became a deck of Top Trumps cards and as such must put forward their best “card” in each category in order to trump the other teams! For example the “Who has had the most embarrassing Zoom moment?” round raised a few eyebrows and had us all in stiches with some great stories – what happens on zoom stays on zoom – we’re remaining tight-lipped!

Bespoke Game

Once everyone was suitably into the swing of this fast-paced Zoom activity, we commenced our short briefing on the App-based bespoke challenge game.

The aim of the game was simple … Score as many points as possible before you run out of time! Working in zoom breakout teams, the teams worked around the bespoke refrigeration-themed game board on their smart phones, unlocking and completing a series of trivia, photo and video challenges in exchange for points.

A wealth of bespoke Star-related content was built in, including their Directors baby photo challenge, Star Values, Star through the 5 decades and the cake entry voting competition to crown the winner of best bakers!

Photo Reel

We then brought everyone back to the main room to have a good laugh at their highlight photos with plenty of heckling and banter from rival teams, before we announced the winners.

After the three events were complete we complied an overall leaderboard and collated the results of the cake voting, and shared all the photos and videos with the client, so Star had a wealth of content for their 50th Anniversary newsletter with plenty of memories and a positive shared-experience providing a great morale boost to the team as 2020 continued to throw challenges at us all.

Client Kudos

Fantastic day and really enabled people to get to know each other and have a laugh at the same time. Exactly the aim!

University of Edinburgh

We thought the event was organised and ran extremely well. All of our staff had a fantastic time, great fun! Would recommend Maximillion.

Meraki Talent

Mike and his team did a fantastic job on the run up to and on event day. With the quick turnaround of plans, there was clear communication before, during and after the event. Thank you to Mike and the Maximillion team!

People’s Postcode Lottery

Thank you to Mike, Ross and Sandy from Maximillion for the team building in the afternoon, murder mystery that evening, Belbin Team Roles next morning, a fantastic team building session in the afternoon and, finally, a great barbecue that evening provided by Norton House. Although some of us were a bit slow of the mark the second day, the same positive attitude and enthusiasm from day one prevailed and I think we all got something out of it. It was clear to me that everyone was communicating and working together better by the end of the afternoon.

Abbot Risk Consulting

John Abbot, MD

Ross and the team at Maximillion were an absolute pleasure to work with and played a HUGE part in the success of the Phoenix Leadership UnConference 2023! From the very beginning Maximillion embraced the relaxed feel of this year’s conference and helped bring our vision to life! From a bespoke centre stage to Lego figurines, beanbag seating to branded sticky notes – everything was planned and executed to the highest of standards and myself and the wider team could not be happier! Maximillion have delivered many events for Phoenix Group, they are an extended part of the team and we honestly couldn’t deliver the events like we do without them!

Phoenix Group

Overall Maximillion were fantastic to work with, they were really flexible and happy to work within our event timings and budget. I had several planning calls with them in advance so felt safe in their hands.

R3

The InterGen Summer Event 2024 was an unforgettable day! This could not have happened if it was not for the brilliant team at Maximillion. Their attention to detail, organisation skills and fantastic hosting/MC’ing on the day of the event was brilliant. Massive thank you for making our team building event the highlight of 2024.

Intergen

Sarah and her team have proved invaluable to the organisation of our flagship event held in London. We partner with leading physicians from across the world to bring the latest thinking in cardiology to the participants, who come from many countries. This requires a team that operates to a high standard and can offer an experience that all involved remember. A foundation of this is the attention to detail, and a drive to get it right – mostly hidden from all when working well, but very obvious if not done. I have no hesitation to recommend Sarah and her team if you have an event you wish to deliver a the highest standards. The Optima team sends all our thanks to them.

Optima

I received emails from the participants saying how much they enjoyed the event. Our HR manager stated he would use Maximillion again. Many thanks for all your effort.

TAQA Britani Ltd

Maximillion was great! They were responsive and accommodating and we would definitely use them again.

Maritz.com

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