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Based on the popular board game, this virtual version of Code Names allows your team to plat secret agents and test their communication skills. Their objective is to try to get their team to guess all the cards that have been assigned to them. The rub is that the clues can only be one word, no proper nouns. If you could eat one food for the rest of your life what would it be? At the meeting, share the answers and have your teammates try to pair the answers with the right person.
Once everyone has guessed, reveal who gave what answer. Boom — instant team bonding! For more fun-icebreakers, check out our icebreaker question guide for teambuilding and guide to funny icebreakers. This is by far the most adorable virtual game for remote teams on this list. In advance of the virtual game, have all team members send the commissioner 4 childhood photos- one of them as a baby, one of them at age 2, one at age 5, and one at age 10 approximately.
The first person to identify their teammate as a kiddo gets 10 points. The person with the most points at the end wins! Tell everyone on your team to prepare a poem, a song, a dance, a magic trick — whatever they want!.
This is part virtual concert, part virtual game for remote teams. The virtual crowd will go wild! This game is a classic for a reason! Hop on a video call then go around and have each team member share two truths and one lie about themselves. The results can be surprising and funny and have you seeing your coworkers in a whole new light. This one comes from connectteam. Tell everyone that aliens have landed on Earth and are interested in learning about your company. The groups need to talk among themselves to come up with the five necessary images.
One group member should upload the five images that best describe the company. Drawful is the perfect solution for remote teams. It can easily be played over Zoom or other video calling software, as well as in person. In Drawful, each player receives an unusual prompt they need to try and draw on their phone in a limited amount time. After someone finishes and submits their drawing, everyone else submits a title anonymously that could fit the other player's drawing.
These titles can be humorous or serious, it's up to each player. The goal is to find the correct drawing prompt while fooling others into selecting decoy answer. Bonus points are awarded to the decoys that are particularly clever or funny. Create a video meeting with team members and share your screen.
Start the game! Every player uses their phone or tablet as a controller, so it's important that everyone has access to a device. The game will run everyone through the instructions before playing so everyone viewing the screen share will get the gist.
Items Needed: Each participant needs a mobile device. Goal: Work together to save the world from a growing pandemic. Based on the cooperative board game, the Pandemic mobile app centres around teams working together to fight and cure deadly diseases.
Each player has a specific role that they must fill in order to succeed. Roles can be anything from an engineer building satellites so the CDC can communicate to a scientist collecting data and samples to test for a cure. The premise for the game is the perfect setup to teach risk management and foster teamwork. It shows that every role is needed to reach the long-term and tough goals. Goal: Score the highest number of points while laying tiles.
Another board game turned mobile app, Carcassonne focuses on laying tile to strategically gain control of map's cities, fields and other terrain with the end goal of earning the most points. The game is best played in groups of four players and as a pass-and-play for teams. Everyone can also play together or remotely on their own device. With each new tile that is laid, individuals must adjust their strategy. It can get people thinking about how to formulate strategies and use logic to reach long-term goals.
Goal: To complete all tasks before being killed by the imposter. Among Us is a multiplayer game that combines strategy with sci-fi. Individuals are assigned roles: either as one of the crew members on a spaceship whose goal is to complete their assigned tasks or an imposter who poses as a crew member and whose goal is to kill the majority of the crew members while sabotage the mission. Similar to games like Mafia and Werewolf, the crew will gather after a dead body is fond to discuss who everyone believes may be the imposter.
At the end of these gatherings, someone will be voted off the spaceship. Players will find there's a strategy to sticking together with other crew members and collaboration is necessary to complete all tasks and find the imposter. Communication is also key to winning the game. Number of Participants: 2-Unlimited. Goal: Team up and go on quests.
It can be download on Android or iOS devices. People can communicate, barter, form alliances and show what they are capable of when they work as a team. Playing a fantasy multiplayer RPG game may seem like an unconventional way to build your business team, but it can foster real-world teamwork. It also taps into the imagination of your members and their ability to communicate.
Team building games and activities for teams with more time available. All activities should take between minutes of participants time.
Items Needed: Anything they could use to build a bridge. Some suggestions: tape, paper, marshmallows, straws, Legos, popsicle sticks or Jenga blocks. Goal: Have two groups independently build bridge halves that must fit together. To tap into your team's creativity and communication skills, try bridge build. Divide into two different teams. Each must build half of a bridge with the materials provided. The goal is for the two bridges to have similar or identical design and be able to fit together when finished.
The challenge is that the teams must be separated so that they can't see the other team or what they are building. But, they are allowed to communicate verbally or through chat e. Depending on what you use, you may want to also supply them with tape, paper and pens. This exercise is good for developing communication, creative thinking, and leaderships skills. What was the hardest part of this challenge? How did you overcome that? Did you miscommunicate at any point? How did you fix miscommunications and get back on track?
Time: 40 minutes. Items Needed: cue cards, post-its or scraps of paper, pens. Goal: Participants must guess the name on their forehead using only yes or no questions. Create a set of names, which can be celebrities and icons like Beyonce or Mickey Mouse or types of professions like actor, football player or doctor. You can use Post-It notes or tape and small slips of paper. Have each person place a name on their forehead. Make sure that they can't see who it is. Set a timer and instruct everyone to move around the room asking different people yes or no questions until they guess correctly or time runs out.
This gets people to move around the room and interact with people they may not spoken with before. It also makes them more aware of stereotypes and categorizing others based on certain characteristics. Number of Participants: Unlimited. Items Needed: Cue or index cards. Goal: Find pairs. Similar to "Concentration", in which you flip over cards two at a time to try to find matching pairs, this activity focuses on learning and memory. You can create cards with photos and names of team members or with company information like products, logos, and values.
Face these cards down on a table and then break into teams. Each team must find the pairs in the cards while only facing 2 cards up at a time. Time each group and whichever finds all the matches the fastest is declared the winner. Company concentration teaches employees more about your business while playing a fun game. Items Needed: Flip cart or white board, Markers. Goal: Come up with newspaper headlines that describe company or department achievements in the future.
With this team-building exercise, you can boost creativity and get an inside look at how your employees see the future of your business. To do All the News, you just need a few newspapers, whiteboards, markers, pens and paper.
Each team is given a newspaper and asked to come up with different headlines that cover what the company or department will be doing in the near future. They can create as many as they want and as far in the future as they want. Groups share their headline ideas with the rest of the team and get feedback. All the News is useful for entrepreneurs and business owners that want to get an idea of the company's future direction and start setting some new goals.
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Items Needed: Character descriptions, Clues, Dinner. Goal: Work together to find who the murderer was. A Murder Mystery Dinner is an interactive activity that will require everyone to get involved. There are several companies that will design murder mystery dinners specifically for business groups. Actors will provide an entertaining story and set clues in place for your team to decipher. But, you can also host your own murder mystery dinner party which may be more cost-effective and intimate.
Learn more about Murder Mystery Dinners here. It's ideal for problem-solving and critical thinking. Items Needed: Powerpoint karaoke slides, projector or screen. Goal: Create a presentation on the spot from slides participants have never seen.
If you want to test your team's presentation skills and see how they react in fast-paced or high-pressure situations, play PowerPoint Karaoke also called Powerpoint Roulette or Battledecks. Groups are given a set of slides that they haven't seen before and must give a presentation based on those slides. This is a more intense version, but you can adjust it so that groups are given a few minutes to view the slides and prepare before giving the presentation. It requires groups to think quickly and work together to pull off a difficult task with a short time to plan.
Was this more difficult than a regular presentation? Why or why not? Goal: Act out a impromptu slideshow. Similar to Power Point Karaoke, slide show is a improv game which involves a group presentation. One person in a team will tell a story of an adventure or process. This could be anything from traveling through the jungle or navigating around a city to building a house or planning a large dinner party.
The other team members must act as the slideshow or visuals for the presentation. With each section that the presenter says they must demonstrate the scene. Add in random props to make it more exciting. Slideshow sparks creativity and pushes members to think on their feet. It also shows how they support each other throughout the process. Time: Long Term. Items Needed: Notebook, Pens.
Goal: Get to know employees over a long term period of time. Some businesses may do team-building activities once for new employee orientation or once or twice a year for a company retreat. Although team-building activities help to bring your group together, you don't have to limit them to only one time a year. Doing team-building games more often prevents your team from drifting apart over time. Companies like Zappos have incorporated a culture book. It is a long-running team-building activity that can be done every day.
In a common area like a break room, leave a book with markers or pens. On each page, you can leave a prompt or ask a question for each day. Encourage employees to leave quotes from movies they are watching or books they have recently read. This can also be done virtually in work chat apps like Slack by using Geekbot's Pizza Toppings preset, which brings up a fun question for your team to answer once a week. Items Needed: Team Brief, scoring sheet. Goal: Rank items given based on a hypothetical scenario.
Want to see how your team makes decisions? Set up a hypothetical scenario, in which an accident strands the group in a body of water. The traditional team brief in All Adrift is that your boat catches on fire and you have to abandon it. You only have a few minutes to grab items.
Some examples are: First Aid Kit, rope, canned food, water, a bucket, a knife, a compass and a blanket. First, individuals should write down the items that they would grab from in the order of most important. Then as a team, they have to decide and agree on which 10 are the top priorities.
Groups should have about 30 minutes to complete the entire activity and come to a consensus. There is also a scoring sheet that they should use to rate their decisions.
All Adrift helps you see that you can often make smarter decisions as a team with combined knowledge than on your own. These activities may give you the inspiration and motivation to build stronger and more successful company teams.
But, remember there are other opportunities to bond your team, so don't stress too much about planning out everything in exact detail.
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Log in. See all resources. Why Do Team Building Activities? Follow Up Questions: What was the groups initial reaction? What we're their biggest challenges? Did team work come easily or was it a struggle to get through? What skill were used to succeed in the challenge? Were any creative solutions purposed? How were they received? Follow Up Questions: Did you assign people on your team specific roles? What was your thought process?
Follow Up Questions: What was your biggest challenge crossing the fence? What did the group have to do or believe to be successful?
What would you do differently next time? Follow Up Questions: Was the artist confused? What was their thinking process? Was there any descriptions that confused the artist? What methods of communication worked the best for your team? What leadership was demonstrated during the challenge? What did you learn from the challenge?
Follow Up Questions: Did you work as a team to act out the phrase? Was it hard to get everyone on the same page? Follow Up Questions: Did you successfully recreate the object? Was there any bit of the description that confused you? When did you benefit most from working as a team?
Follow Up Questions: Did you find it difficult to come up with sentences? When the story didn't go the way you thought it would, how did you pivot? Was it hard to keep the story continuous? You can see a combination of Swedish Story and Conducted Story here: Storytellers will be put on the spot and have to think fast. Follow Up Questions: Did coming up with a story come naturally or did you find it to be a struggle?
Did your teammates suggestions help or hinder? Do you prefer being the story teller or the word giver? A few examples of tasks that you can use are: Make a sandwich. Tie a ribbon. Navigate through an obstacle course.
Complete a jigsaw puzzle.
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