Build employee culture strategically, Enhance Employee Engagement/Experience (EX) & Employer Branding using Corporate Gifts for Employees. This is perhaps a recurring (monthly!) requirement that corporates have to keep addressing. Kocoatrait has the privilege and pleasure in presenting to you a planet friendly (a.k.a sustainable) and inclusive Employee Experience enhancement, engagement, communication, culture building and corporate gifting format for the 1st time in India! Pair your monthly/quarterly/annual gifting with a virtual, fun, learning lead, engaging & innovative “live” 60 minute fine chocolate appreciation session with India’s 1st certified chocolate taster, L Nitin Chordia. The aim of this session is to demonstrate sustainability using healthy-dark, sustainable, inclusive, plastic/paper free chocolates at the cost of a team lunch/outing! This format can be delivered in Offline (in person), Online (Virtual) & Hybrid model.
Who is this relevant for in an organisation?
This format is relevant and directly applicable to the heads/managers of the following roles in an organisation: Human Resources, People & Culture, Employee Experience (EX), Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Communication and Marketing Managers can ensure Employee Experience improvement and Engagement.
How much does this activity cost?
The cost of this activity equates to the cost of a team lunch per person! Quite Literally! and sometimes even lower!
Please click here to access the presentation on this innovative engagement format and how this can be useful for your organisation.
Below are a few testimonials from our clients.
We reached out to Nitin for a team session on appreciating Indian bean to bar chocolates. The team enjoyed the bonding over the session and learnt a lot about making, eating and enjoying chocolates. Nitin engaged with many of them and answered all their queries which made it very interactive. Whilst initially a two hour session, we went on for nearly three hours. All thanks to Nitin and his wonderful chocolates!
– Yash J Ashar, Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai
Experiencing the delight of chocolate tasting came true with the event hosted by Nitin! This was an intimate event with just a few team members so we felt the individual attention and Nitin was super calm and answered all our questions. I was personally surprised to learn about some lesser known facts of chocolate manufacturing, special insights of zero waste packaging, even about the fermentation process in detail! Loved the session and have already recommended to my peer teams, who I believe have already signed up for future sessions! (Link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6876563595862396928/)
– Ramya Sampath, Head of India Partner Engineering team, Linkedin India.
Given the continued WFH, we were looking for a fun and informative virtual session that would help the team interact. Some of the other options we considered were stand up comedy or concert, but we felt with Nitin’s knowledge and credentials and the excellent Kocoatrait chocolates, a chocolate appreciation session would be more interactive and engaging. We were not disappointed – the session was excellent and everyone really enjoyed it. We would highly recommend it.
– Prashant Gupta, Partner and National Practise Head (Capital Markets), Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, New Delhi
Eco-friendly gifts tug at people’s heart. They help us forge an emotional bond & pass the message of environment conservation
– Anand Rajendran, HR Director, Rage Communication, Chennai
Thank you for hosting a chocolate tasting event for us . The event was very well received by our team and they enjoyed it wholeheartedly. Thanks for taking care of the logistics and making sure every employee gets a personalized message and the chocolates kits right on time. The chocolate tasted amazing and the virtual event was great. Thanks for all that you did for making our team feel special and teaching them how to eat and taste chocolates.
– Malini Satish Kumar – ABP, Google India
For Team Engagement and Building with chocolates, we ship out a box of handpicked Single Origin Planet Friendly, Sustainable and Zero Waste chocolate to the associates based on addresses shared in a specific spreadsheet format by the client (in advance) and using bluedart or similar overnight service. The box is completely sustainable, plastic free and planet friendly. The fine flavoured chocolates are of indian origin and reassures the participants that in India we can be atmanirbhar with our chocolates. The box is delivered with the client’s logo on the top of the box printed on the bluedart AWB indicating & clearly indicating that the company has sent it. Upon receipt of the box, the recipient stores the chocolates based on instructions clearly given in the box. On a scheduled date/time, the associates log on to a virtual platform and then L Nitin Chordia, (India’s 1st certified chocolate taster) takes them through a 90 minute guided chocolate appreciation sesion where we taste 4 or 5 different and unique chocolate bars. The associates can join in with their families if so desired by the company! During the session, we ensure that almost all the participants get to participate/engage in some conversation. We start with a quick rapid fire introduction of each participant and where they take 20-30 seconds each to share any memory about chocolate. Post this, Nitin takes them through a 20 minute walk through of pictures and videos of how chocolate is actually made. After this, there is an introduction to the chocolate tasting guide and participants taste chocolates based on the instructions. If so desired, one chocolate can be without a name and participants guess the same. Nitin engages with a few randomly selected team members for each chocolate and requests for their reaction. This takes up untill 90 minutes and we wind the session with a Q&A. All this at the cost per person of a team lunch! The session needs 10 working days of advance notice for logistics planning.
The benefits of engaged employees for a business is well known. This is a good link to visit to further read the benefits https://blog.vantagecircle.com/benefits-of-employee-engagement/ From an HR perspective, Corporate Engagement and Gifts for Employees is a very critical area of execution and the need and benefits of virtual employee engagement has been captured very well in this blog post. https://blog.vantagecircle.com/virtual-employee-engagement-ideas/ Some of our corporate clients are listed below:
The video below describes the journey of Kocoatrait chocolates from bean to bar!
You could also choose to include a zero waste sustainable and planet friendly chocolate gift box (options available in reusable TIN and Plam leaf). This box lends itself very well to the overall virtual chocolate appreciation experience. The box is available to view at: https://cocoatrait.com/product/zero-waste-gift/
Some relevant articles have been published on Employee Experience (EX) and the links are: https://www.crn.in/news/employee-experience-the-future-of-work-post-pandemic/ https://www.peoplematters.in/article/employee-engagement/employee-experience-the-secret-weapon-in-the-talent-war-30960 and https://www.mercer.co.in/our-thinking/career/time-to-take-employee-experience-to-next-level.html https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/employee-experience-post-covid/ https://www.gartner.com/en/human-resources/insights/employee-experience https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/10-ways-to-improve-employee-experience/ https://blog.vantagecircle.com/employee-experience/
Disclaimer: We are not associated to any of the above firms listed in the links.
About L Nitin Chordia, Cocoatrait & Cocoashala:L Nitin Chordia is India’s 1st certified chocolate taster. A Sparring Partner and a Retail Business Consultant with over 15 years of experience in Indian FMCG and Retail Domain. His current consulting focus is Sustainability, Zero Waste & Circular Economy. Nitin is India’s 1st Certified Chocolate Taster, Judge at the International Chocolate Awards, London and a Cocoa Post Harvest Professional. Nitin is the 1st external faculty at the Institute of fine chocolate tasting, UK. Nitin operates Cocoatrait with an intention to promote the production and consumption of fine chocolates in India. Nitin along with his wife Poonam (a trained chocolatier and a Level 2 certified chocolate taster) operates Cocoashala, a chocolate school which delivers the basic & advanced levels of Bean to Bar chocolate making training and beyond. Kocoatrait is the world & India’s 1st Sustainable Luxury Zero Waste, Single Origin, Organic and Planet Friendly Bean to Bar Chocolate contributing to the circular economy. Kocoatrait was conceived with an aim to enable aspiring Indian citizens to adopt a zero waste lifestyle and follow minimalistic living.
Contact: L Nitin Chordia +919600064846; nitin@cocoatrait.com