Hi Sam, a recent fave has been the hot seat series https://customercare.igloosoftware.com/playbook/playbook_articles/the_hot_seat

It's a lightweight engagement program that helps team members get to know each other. We've then seen these personal facts come up in trivia to earn points in some team gamification activations!  

Here's a webinar with that idea and more: https://customercare.igloosoftware.com/university/training_video/webinar_archive/webinar_recordings_archive/engagement_a_webinar

Hi Sam - The Hot Seat Bridget mentioned sounds awesome.  We have not done that on our Igloo, but we have done it live.  It was great live and we are exploring a version of it on our Igloo.

We're a little larger than you at 40,000+ but I think 10,000 would work for some other engagement efforts we've run over the years.

30 Days of Purple

• Purple is our brand color and that's what drove the name.
• We ran this effort a month or two after we doubled the size of our company in one day through a merger (in 2016) as a way to engage the new employees and energize everyone across the enterprise about the major change.
• It included several efforts were employees could show their enthusiasm and embracing of the brand through Purple Spirit, highlight the work they so through Teams Making History, contribute to the Leidos playlist through Leidos Rocks and highlight employee community support and charitable work through Leidos Gives.
• There were nice prizes and many ways to win them.
• It was a 30 day effort with tons of engagement.

Purple Palooza

• Similar to 30 days of purple, but we only ran this one for two weeks.
• We had even more engagement on this go-round than we did on the longer effort previously.
• This one was in fall 2020 when everyone was remote.  We rant it as a way to connect people to the company and each other during the 100% remote days.
• The 'stages' of the festival included Purple Spirit, Cheers to Peers, Feelin' Groovy Wellness, We are Family, Leidos Aid and Leidos Rocks.  Each of these 'stages' had two or three events (or ways to enter).
• There were nice prizes and many ways to win then.

The Lighter Side

• Also during the pandemic. 
• We launched this one shortly after everything shut down as a way for employees to cope with our unknown new reality.
• This one was up for many months.
• There were no prizes for anything, it was just provided as a way for employees to cope and share with each other.
• We had these categories: Masks Matter, How are you helping?; 'Still Life' Masterpiece; The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful; Quarantunes - WFH Playlist; Virtual Reality - Keeping Well While WFH.
• We also used this to highlight virtual efforts that employees could participate in outside of work, like a Junior Innovator Challenge and a D.C. United Workout program.
• And, our leadership team got together and started a virtual band called the Leidos Lonestars.  Every few weeks they would work together virtually to record a song.  We highlighted them on this page.
• The engagement here was really high even though there were no prizes ... people just needed a way to cope and this lighter side gave them an avenue.

Find LEO

• Every year in the fall we have Ethics Week where we do a big push on everything ethics.
• One of the efforts we run during this week is Find LEO.  In looking around for LEO, employees see and absorb ethics content and information.
• LEO = Leidos Ethics Officer ... every employee is a Leidos Ethics Officer, but we gave LEO his own identity.
• Every day of the week, we move LEO to a new location throughout our Ethics content.
• Employees can find LEO and enter into the drawing.  The more new locations you find LEO, the more entries you have.  Find him every day of Ethics Week and you have 5 chances to win.
• At the end of the week we hold random drawings from all entries for some pretty nice prizes.

Live Well Virtual Festival

• This one is underway now, launched yesterday.  In the first hour we had more than 1000 comments/entries across the topics, and more than 5100 on the first 24 hours.
• It's a two-week virtual festival highlighting all-things-wellness.
• The activities include Let's Get Physical, Unwind the Mind, Come Together, Four Our Future, Financial Wellness and Take a Bite.
• This is being run in the 30 Days/Palooza model with online entries in each category.

Champion Scavenger Hunt

• On a smaller scale, way back in the early days of our site (2012 or 2013).
• I sent our Champions on a scavenger hunt to find specific content on our site ... some of it was how to do things and others were examples of things we like to see done on the site. 
• At the end, I had a random drawing for one small prize and gave all participants some Champion swag.

If any of this sounds interesting and you want to know more, just let me know and we can set up a time to chat. 

Tammy Triplett - WOW! I'm always so impressed by the efforts you and your team undertake in engagement! Thanks so much for sharing!