Navixus (Formerly Eventus Solutions Group) Company Culture & Values

What is the biggest challenge to establishing a virtual-first company culture? Physical location is not as important as we once thought. Employees have the same performance expectations whether they are sitting in a cubicle in the office or at home. Employers must empower their employees to be productive by establishing and communicating expectations. Communication is and will always be the most critical component of an employer-employee relationship. Adding the variable of being virtual forces employers to get back to basics with setting general office protocol — accepting or declining meeting invitations, having a representative attend meetings, establishing core working hours for client availability and more. 

After communicating the basic office guidelines, employers can give employees the freedom and autonomy to do their job. As long as clients are happy, deadlines are being met and coworkers are working as a team, how, when and where the work is getting done isn’t a concern.

What’s your number one tip for fostering connection and/or collaboration among virtual teams?

Keep it simple. Employers and managers can feel pressure to do a big, fun team-building event. These are well received but can be costly, and therefore occur infrequently. 

Because employees want to interact and get to know their coworkers, Eventus coordinates virtual events where we spotlight employees’ lives and activities. Two examples are our “Proud Papa” event, for which we virtually spotlighted new dads and their little ones, and a pet event with small breakout rooms for employees to socialize with other employees and their pets. 

What remote working tools do you lean on to reinforce culture?

We use Microsoft Teams and Slack and have utilized breakout rooms, polls and quizzes. Teams is an easy and fast way to encourage interaction and collaboration among employees. We have also used Kahoot! and online games to keep the interactions fun and entertaining.