Hi Kristie, 

From a teambuilding perspective, I have facilitated a few things in the past for groups nearly that size at our annual holiday party with a past employer. We did things as simple as gratitude activities (playing off the attitude of gratitude around the holidays). After a tabletop discussion activity, team members wrote notes for those they were thankful for/wanted to thank/celebrate and put them on the wall. We had two big walls covered with notes! When they were taken down, I then distributed them to who they were for the following week. It ended up becoming a recognition activity we kept throughout the following year. 

I have also liked connecting it to a give-back opportunity. One year, we did a food/personal hygiene drive leading up to the event. All of those items then became "building" material and were placed on tables throughout the room. They were given a theme and asked to build something to represent it. We then had judges that selected 1st/2nd/3rd place winners and had the non-profit group who we were donating them to at the event to share about the organization. I have also seen bicycle builds, food packing, and more. With a group that big, it does take some logistics and extra sets of hands. 

Just a few ideas. Happy to discuss others if you like! 

Mary 

We do team building for various departments across our Org. I could certainly ask our team if there is anything they have done for that size of group. What would the typical team sizes be and is there a time limit for the activities?

Thank you Michele.  I could picture him up on stage, but couldn't remember his name. 

We are very, very early on in planning for our annual pepRally event. We always kick it off with a keynote speaker that is on theme for the event.  We've been asked to have a keynote speaker that will set the tone and energy for the event.  Our theme has not been finalized yet, but will be along the lines of forward thinking, future thinking, embracing new perspectives, anticipating the "technology revolution," embracing change. If you have had any speakers you have loved, let me know.  My role in the event is Fairy Godmother.  We have a whole content planning committee and I'm sharing my knowledge and resources with them so they can run with the planning and execution as details are finalized.

We will also do an external DEI speaker this year.  We alternate internal and external so we're getting both external best practices, but taking time to hear from our team. We have not picked a theme for the DEI speaker yet. We have done Unconscious Bias in the past, but it never hurts to revisit that. We were also just talking about neurodiversity.  If you have any DEI speakers you'd recommend, I'd love to pass those along to our planning team as well.