
Fun Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Team

As we continue to work from home and practice social distancing, we are becoming experts in keeping in touch with each other via online formats. We have pulled together some ideas to help you create some ‘downtime’ with your colleagues, injecting a bit of light-hearted fun! These activities may also help you get to know each other better, which can build a deeper level of understanding and appreciation of each other’s circumstances. We hope you enjoy trying some of these out!
Get Active!
• Team ‘steps’ competitions – using an app such as Move Spring set up a competition to see who can do the most amount of steps (as a team) in a month.
• Team Cycling – using an app such as Zwift, set challenges as a team to achieve on either indoor or outdoor bikes
• Chair Yoga – every morning for 15 minutes as a team via a virtual meeting platform
• Team pilates – early morning or evening session
• Team walk at lunchtime or during your daily catch up
Understanding each other better
• A peek into each other’s houses – each team member chooses a room/shelf/picture/item within their home to show their colleagues to share something others don’t know about themselves.
• Keep in contact with everyone once a day – a daily huddle where each person rates their current mood out of 10
• Share with the team one positive thing each day (and ask them to do the same)
• Coffee and learn session - The team comes together for a 15 minute coffee break, and take turns to talk about something we do, something we know, or something we are.
• Chat-Roulette – team members are randomly paired up to have a 30-minute chat.
• Bucket List – share your bucket list with each other (1 thing per week)
• Two truths and one lie - Each team member presents three statements about themselves: two truths and one that is false. The team can then take turns to recognise what’s true and what the lie is. After everyone has guessed, the speaker reveals their lie. To make the game even more fun, add some healthy competition with a points system that’s recorded digitally or by the manager with a pen and paper. The person who has the most correct guesses wins!
• Create a montage of your pets
Purely Social!
• End of day team drinks, for example, Monday Mocktails, Gin O’clock,
• Learn how to make something new
• Team Bake-off competition
• Virtual Book Club
• Virtual Board Game night, such as Monopoly, Cluedo, Uno, Scrabble, Boggle, or even an online communal puzzle
• Virtual Paint and Sip night
• Tea Tasting / Wine Tasting
• Virtual Pixel Art (Via Google)
• Houseparty or JackBox virtual games with leader-boards
• Create a team Spotify list by each team member choosing a team tune for the day.
• The desert island scenario - You’re stranded on a deserted island with seven objects – but you each can only grab three. Make these objects as obscure and challenging as possible so that your team members are forced to really use critical thinking and planning. Examples of items are a bag of fruit and vegetable seeds, a rope, a bedsheet, a bucket etc. Then split the team into small groups and allow them to collaborate on which items they want to pick. Once all discussions have finished, get onto a team video chat and discuss the results.
• Team quiz’s or Sudoku. Using question cards online, or even your board games at home like Trivial Pursuit!
• Virtual Charades
Look to the Future!
• Do some blue-sky thinking with your team – what could the future look like and how can you collectively work towards it?
• A look at the future - Share an e-newspaper or magazine with the team, and ask them to mark ten headlines that could be related to the company in the future. Headlines like “World’s best place to work,” or “How this company changed the world” are good examples. This helps you to understand each member’s goals and expectations from the company. You can even compare each choice to analyse differences in commitment or priorities!
Remember to be sensitive to cultural and religious differences during this time.
Google Pixel Art- Create your own Unicorn!
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