Themes for Company Awards Celebrations

Company Award Ceremony Themes

One of the best ways you can increase job satisfaction in your employees is by recognizing their efforts and showing how much you appreciate them. Taking that a step further, personalizing your signs of gratitude — like acknowledging the specific goals they reached — shows that you’re paying attention instead of blindly spreading around appreciation so you can check a box.

Workplace award ceremonies are a fun and engaging way to highlight employee accomplishments and showcase how much those efforts impact the entire company.

Why Host Company Award Ceremonies?

Company award ceremonies have a lot of benefits, both for the team members and the brand itself. Most importantly, recognition fosters motivation — showing your employees that their work is appreciated and pays off will inspire them to do even better. 

Employee recognition in a group setting also encourages team bonding. Workers can celebrate one another’s wins, creating a community of high achievers who support one another. Plus, you may even boost public relations if other sources get wind of your company award ceremony ideas and spread the news. (This makes it an excellent recruiting tool, too.)

4 Tips for Hosting a Company Award Ceremony

Think throwing an award ceremony for your team is the right move? Here are four tips for hosting it.

Book a Great Venue

Instead of holding the awards ceremony at the office, why not elevate it by booking an excellent venue? Consider new or popular restaurants in town, a favorite bar or lounge where the team often gathers for happy hour, or even a modern event space if the team is large enough to fill it.

Celebrate Meaningful Accomplishments

Front-load the awards ceremony by honoring important accomplishments. Before you move on to silly or funny employee award ideas, make sure they feel important and understand why they matter at the company.

Keep the Audience Engaged

To keep the audience engaged, celebrate each accomplishment enthusiastically. It may also help to have a no-phones policy and ask everyone to keep their phones on silent and stashed away for the evening (designate someone as a photo-taker, though). Also, mixing in corporate award ceremony gifts can help snag attention if minds start to drift.

Don’t Forget to Have Fun!

Even though you’re going to focus on serious awards at first, that doesn’t mean you can’t be jovial and have fun at the same time. Telling an inside joke or poking a bit of fun at someone in a leadership position will keep the mood light. Just make sure to stay kind!

Corporate Award Ceremony Theme Ideas

Looking for fun company award ideas to get everyone excited for the night ahead? You may want to plan the event with a theme in mind. Here are four options to get you started.

Light Bulb Awards

You could focus the awards ceremony around creativity and give out awards for things like innovative ideas and clever suggestions for improvement. To go with the theme, consider using creative lighting in the venue, like glow-in-the-dark elements or bulbs that change color.

1920s Soiree

If you have a team of people who love to get dressed up, throw a 1920s party. You can send Art Deco-style invitations, decorate with gold and black geometric patterns, play jazz in the background, serve signature cocktails, and even set up a photo booth with props like fake cigars, top hats, strings of fake pearls, and feather boas.

Music Festival

If you’re able to host your awards ceremony at a venue with a stage, whether that’s indoors or outdoors, you could hire a band to provide entertainment. Encourage everyone to wear music festival-type outfits, hand out wristbands as people enter, hire food trucks, and set up activities like cornhole and giant Jenga.

Red Carpet Event

To truly make everyone feel like a star, throw a red-carpet award ceremony. Put a step and repeat at the entrance, hire photographers to act like paparazzi, and set up a champagne bar. Oh, and don’t forget the red carpet, of course!

Custom Prizes for Company Award Ceremonies

In addition to giving everyone an award or certificate for their achievements, consider giving out corporate award ceremony gifts as well. You can hand out gifts as awards or offer them to guests as party favors — or both!

Guests will appreciate receiving the custom Amazon Glacier White Echo Dot (5th Generation), which they can use when they’re back in the office or at home. On top of playing music, it’ll act as a smart assistant and control connected devices.

The branded Zusa Black Pontoon Tumbler 32 oz. is a crowd-pleaser because we all could use another travel-ready cup, right? This one is eco-conscious, too, since it's carbon neutral and a part of 1% For the Planet, which donates to environmental nonprofits.

There’s also the great-looking and personalized Timbuk2 Custom Division Laptop Backpack, which comes in an eye-catching color scheme and has several interior pockets for organization and keeping devices safe.

 

Contact Us

Planning an awards ceremony for your well-deserving team? Contact us at Merchology if you need help finding corporate award ceremony gifts. We’ll also walk you through every part of the process, including options for branding the products you choose.