Celebrate your connected community

6 tips to help you celebrate your Workplace from Facebook anniversary and the improvements you've made to productivity and culture.


Your journey to connect your workforce started the day you deployed Workplace. You’ve taken big steps to transform work at your organization, and it’s important to celebrate the impact these steps have had on productivity and culture. Many organizations use their Workplace anniversary as a milestone to recognize the positive changes they’ve seen so far. This guide will help you plan and execute an event to celebrate your connected community.
1. Measure success
1. Measure success
Go to the Insights in the Admin Panel to find statistics that will help you quantify the success you’ve had so far. Check to see how many people have claimed their accounts out of all people invited from the People tab. You’ll also find the number of daily active, weekly active, and monthly active users.
Go to the Content tab to see the number of posts, comments, reactions, and messages your Workplace community has had over the past 28 days.
And check out the new Connections tab to get a clearer view of how people in your organization are connecting and sharing across your Workplace.
Share these statistics in a post in your company announcement groups, along with a teaser for a Live event with your executives and more information on how you’ll be celebrating. Make sure a Workplace Admin marks your post as important so nobody in your organization misses it.
2. Get your executives involved
2. Get your executives involved
Ask your leadership team to broadcast a Q&A to your community using Live. Invite employees to ask questions focused on how Workplace has helped increase productivity and improve company culture. Make sure executives highlight specific examples of recent improvements. And be sure to share the Exec Visibility & Accessibility guide with them for best practices on executive communications on Workplace.
3. Give employees a voice with polls
3. Give employees a voice with polls
Why not get people's thoughts on how Workplace has improved the way they work or enhanced connections and brought the organization closer? Create a poll asking people how Workplace has helped transform work at your organization. Encourage employees to add their answers and to vote on answers added by others. Some example questions you can ask in your poll include:
  • How has Workplace made your work life better?
  • How has Workplace improved communication at your company?
  • How has Workplace enabled you to connect with colleagues?
4. Educate people on using Workplace
4. Educate people on using Workplace
This is a great opportunity to continue educating your community on how they can get more out of Workplace. Share links to Customer Resource Center guides in your Workplace groups. Decorate your office with educational posters and share gifs and images in company groups. You can also hold Workplace workshops, teaching employees how to use Workplace to work smarter and more efficiently.
Some shareable educational materials you can use today include:
Recognize your top contributors
5. Recognize your top contributors
To find your top contributors, go to Insights from the Admin Panel. From there, go to the Content tab and scroll down to see your Top Contributors. Celebrate your most active users with awards and announce the winners during your Live event. Take photos and share a post with photos or videos of award winners in your Company FYI group on Workplace.
6. Make it fun!
6. Make it fun!
Many organizations on Workplace have celebrated their connected communities by putting up a photo booth, providing cake and cookies, decorating the office, or hosting a happy hour. Be sure to make an event on Workplace to let everyone know the time, venue, and theme. And be sure to read our guide for more best practices on managing events using Workplace.
Benefits
Benefits
  • Celebrate the improvements you've made to existing workflows.
  • Increase executive visibility with Live Q&A.
  • Educate your employees on how they can work smarter work with Workplace.
  • Encourage more engagement with top contributor awards.