Are you looking for a fun way to keep your virtual team bonded, and engaged,
well virtual team bonding activities are a great way to keep the engagement going,
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you every Wednesday. Over the years I have facilitated more meetings with
team-building activities than I can count,
I'm gonna give you three fun team building activities that is really gonna
help get your team back on track, so if you're excited about learning these
virtual activities, hit that like button, let's get to it.
Fun fact guessing game, so as a facilitator, what you do is, you reach out
to all the participants in advance of the meeting, at least 24 hours in advance,
ideally more so, and ask them to send you one fun fact about them, ideally
something that nobody knows about them, you collect all these fun facts, you
place it in your PowerPoint presentation, and then at the meeting you actually
bring up the fun facts, you do one at a time, and then in a round robin fashion,
where people guess, so you have people take a turn, or in the chat function they
can actually put in who they think that fun fact is about, it's a lot of fun, it
is a great way just to loosen up the mood, and get to know your team members
just slightly better than you would have normally. Desert-island scenario, alright,
this is great because, you don't have to do any preparation from a participants
perspective, still as a facilitator, you have to, so you want to welcome everyone
to the meeting, say hey everybody, welcome to the meeting, guess what, we're all
going on a trip and you've just got dropped on a desert island, and in your
presentation you're gonna actually write down ten to fifteen things that are key
to them on that desert island, and you're gonna ask them to only pick three that
they find critical, and important to survive, and then you give them two
minutes to pick it, and then you have everyone take turns explaining why they
chose that particular item, so that list could be things like, you could have had
on your list for the desert island, rope, a tent,
lighter fluid, matches, whatever it may be, and what's really interesting is,
you get to see people's thought process, they only can pick three things, and they
have to try to survive with those three things, why did they pick them, and it
just brings about some really good conversation, some additional insight, now
what's really cool with this activity is, you don't even have to do it on a desert
island, you can take the same concept and if you're working on something new
collectively, like a product offering, or some brainstorming and creativity, you
can take that concept - and you can make it more work-related, like saying, hey we
got this brand-new product, here are the 15 things that are benefits and features,
what are the three things that you find are the most important, and that is like
inside market research, so you can take these games, and still use it in a way to
to get something more work-related, but dude in a fun, positive, atmosphere.
Fun geography, okay, I actually just did this with a virtual workshop that I was
doing, and it was a lot of fun, what you do is, in advance to your meeting, you
have to give people a couple of days, is, you ask them to find a picture that is
of a place that they love, and that really resonates with them, and you ask
them to upload it to whatever platform that you're using as the virtual
background, so ensure you give instructions on how to do that, with
whatever platform that you're using, because really, some people don't know
how to do that, and when you start your meeting, everyone is to turn on their
virtual background, and you have this amazing picture, and what you can do,
either at the beginning of the meeting or even throughout the meeting, is have
people explain why they chose that picture, it is really cool because you
get to actually get some additional insight on your team members, who they
are, why they picked that picture, how many people really travel far and abroad, like
who knows, it's really cool, it's even really great because there's times you
have a few people who have very similar pictures, and say, hey I've been there,
I've been there too, and then you have something else to talk about besides
work when you are on breaks, so great fun, super easy activity to do, okay, now that
you have some great virtual team-building activities in your back
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