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Online Holiday Party 2020 – A Community Healthcare Team’s Version

Online Holiday Party 2020 – A Community Healthcare Team’s Version
December 25, 2020Mubashshir ZakirCulture

Some Background on Swift…

Swift Health is a community-based health services company. We offer services such as occupational therapy and active rehab. Even before COVID-19, we have always been a “locally remote” team that worked across the lower mainland in B.C.

What is a “locally remote” team?

A locally remote team is one that lives near each other, yet elects to work from home (WFH) and meets in-person occasionally.

To start, I would like to thank our Social Coordinator and Occupational Therapist Mays Sleiman, as well as our Clinical Director Nushabah Zakir to help organize our Online Holiday Party.

Table Of Contents
  • Some Background on Swift…
  • What are the challenges of an online holiday party
  • The Plan and Execution
    • Introductions
    • Awards
      • …and the winners are…
    • Dinner
    • Ending the night
  • Pictures from the holiday party
  • Want Your Picture In Next Years Gallery?
  • Other Posts You May Like

Team culture, self-worth, autonomy, and a sense of community has always been important to us.

Team culture, self-worth, autonomy, and a sense of community has always been important to us. As a locally remote team, meeting in-person made building a team culture a lot easier. The Swift Team tries to have in-person meetups regularly and since Covid — the meetups had to move online. Our holiday parties have always been in-person, but now this also had to shift online too.

What are the challenges of an online holiday party

  • How do we make it something to look forward to?
  • How do we allow for 20+ participants to all be able to chat with one another?
  • How do we make it feel like a company holiday party?

The Plan and Execution

Introductions

To start our Holiday party, everyone introduced themselves by using the ‘spotlight feature’ in Microsoft Teams. If the person was taking part in our gift exchange, they also opened their gift at this time. We allocated fifteen minutes for this and boy were we wrong. It actually took 45 minutes. For some of the team, their food had already arrived and for others, it was still arriving. So we decided to encourage the team to eat their food while it was still warm.

While in previous years we held an ugly sweater competition, this year we were not planning on doing one as we wanted our team to “dress up” — assuming everyone understood that to mean wear fancy clothes. Note to future self: be even more clear with our directions — don’t assume if you don’t need to. Some of us thought it meant to wear their best ugly Christmas sweater.

There was only one thing to do… we held an ugly sweater competition after dinner…

Aneil Uppal - 2020 Ugly Sweater Competition Winner
Aneil Uppal – 2020 Ugly Sweater Competition Winner.
From the looks of it, we should give him the best bar of the year as well.

Awards

We announced our various award winners, including our two primary awards. Kinesiologist of the Year and Occupational Therapist of the Year.

…and the winners are…

Occupational Therapist of the Year Cherry Au 2020 Swift Health

Cherry Au
OT of the Year

Re: Cherry Au

Very knowledgeable in her field , patient , show 100% concern

Kamalvir

She is friendly, caring, on time, and has empathy

Ilse

Very knowledgeable in her field, patient, and  shows 100% concern

Kamalvir

I am speechless about Cherry. She always serves me like a family member and she does more than her responsibilities. She is one of the best OT’s.

Amanat

She is very helpful and is always checking up on me.

Raveen

She’s is so helpful and caring. She always makes me feel better about how I am doing physically and mentally. I know I can always count on her when I need support or recommendations.

Chandan

Cherry has been of wonderful support during my recovery. She’s very compatible and has provided great knowledge and direction.

Kristen

She is a very diligent, kind and dedicated. I would not have any other OT apart from Cherry!

Edith

She is so easy to talk to, genuine, caring and very proactive with getting everything done

Ashley
2020 Kinesiologist of the year dominic tang Swift Health

Dominic Tang
Kinesiologist of the Year

Friendly, knowledgeable, caring

Rizwan

He is extremely professional and extremely caring and most of all PATIENT! I am so extremely grateful and fortunate to have been connected with both Dominic Tang AND Samuel the occupational therapist.

I have already recommended both of these outstanding therapist’s to some of my colleagues, and I don’t go out of my way to suggest anyone for anything. I just want to say your company is extremely fortunate to have him.

Grant

really nice and positive and personable, helped me learn proper stretches and exercises for my injuries

Katrina C.

Dominic was very friendly and informative. Explained each exercise clearly and what and how this would help in recovery. Also gave very easy to do at work exercises and stretches when feeling pain.

Gandeep

Very knowledgeable, friendly and professional person

Gaurav
Ahtesham

Friendly, knowledgeable, and caring

Rizwan

He is extremely professional and extremely caring and most of all PATIENT! I am so extremely grateful and fortunate to have been connected with both Dominic Tang. I have already recommended him to some of my colleagues, and I don’t go out of my way to suggest anyone for anything.

Grant
Surjit

really nice, positive and personable. Helped me learn proper stretches and exercises for my injuries

Katrina

Dominic was very friendly and informative. Explained each exercise clearly and what and how this would help in recovery. Also gave very easy to-do at work exercises and stretches when feeling pain.

Gandeep
Richard

Very knowledgeable, friendly and professional person.

Gaurav

Dinner

The plan was to use Microsoft Teams breakout rooms feature since this feature can manually or automatically split your team into smaller groups. This provides the feeling of being at a dinner table and it gives everyone a chance to speak. We also selected table leaders prior to the party, as we felt they could keep conversations going in case people felt shy.

The feature does not work for some versions of Microsoft Teams and for a few, we decided to use the main room as the "dinner table" instead. Since many of us already had dinner at this point, this did not last long. However, it was still important for people to connect with one another.

Ending the night

Our social coordinator and occupational therapist Mays Sleiman used My Free Bingo Cards to design a game for the team to play. The winner was Morgan Marshall, congratulations to her!

Pictures from the holiday party

  • Yeily Lee Occupational Therapist Swift Health 1 rotated e1608927775739
    Yeily Lee
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Adam Mohamed Occupational Therapist Swift Health 2
    Adam Mohamed
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Mays Sleiman Occupational Therapist Swift Health 3
    Mays Sleiman
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Kathryn Guidry Occupational Therapist Swift Health 5
    Kathryn Guidry
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Luma Ayyoub Occupational Therapist Swift Health 6
    Luma Ayyoub
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Occupational Therapist of the Year Cherry Au 2020 Swift Health
    Cherry Au
    Occupational Therapist of The Year Swift Health
  • Mubashshir Zakir Managing Director Swift Health 7
    Mubashshir Zakir
    Managing Director
    Swift Health
  • Holiday Party 2020 Swift Health 8
    Large gallery mode microsoft teams
  • Morgan Marshall Occupational Therapist Swift Health 10
    Morgan Marshall
    Pediatric Occupational Therapist Swift Health
  • Online Holiday Party 2020 Banner
  • Katie Lee Occupational Therapist Swift Health 11
    Katie Lee
    Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Melinda Calayo Kinesiologist Swift Health 12
    Melinda Calayo
    Kinesiologist
    Swift Health
  • Nushabah Zakir Occupational Therapist Swift Health 13
    Nushabah Zakir
    Founder, Clinical Director and Occupational Therapist
    Swift Health
  • Swift Health Online Holiday Party 2020
    Tile view of our online party
  • kinesiologist of the year trophy
    Kin of the Year
  • occupational therapist of the year trophy
    OT of the Year
Pictures from 2020 Holiday Party. I wish we had recorded it or taken more pictures.


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