Whether your Business Team is normally remote and works together via Virtual Conferencing or your team has been forced to work partially or completely remotely due to COVID19.
We have put together this list of ideas to use to continue to build team work and a higher team engagement. Sometimes just taking a few minutes can really pay dividends in helping your team stay connected.
There could be a number of buckets you fall into such as:
- Experienced working Remote/Virtual
- New at working Remote/Virtual
- Forced to work Remote/Virtual for a short term basis
Regardless of the reason for your virtual work, this list of ideas and activities will be helpful to you in improving and sustaining team engagement.
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
― Patrick Lencioni, [1]
Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
If you want better engagement or to maintain the team work you have now within you team then maintaining and building trust is key.
It is important to understand the objective of the activity as you plan on what you want to do. Many team building activities and games can meet multiple objectives but understanding where you want to go makes it much more likely for you to get there when you start with the desired outcome in mind.
Table of Contents
- What is Virtual Team Building?
- Why is Virtual Team Building Important?
- 18 Easy Virtual Team Building Activities & Ideas To Get You Started
- Virtually Building Real Teams & Relationships Remotely
What is Virtual Team Building?
Virtual Team Building is the process of motivating and encouraging your team through stronger team relationships remotely. This is done through some form of a virtual team building activities, games or exercises.
This should be part of everyone’s toolkit for building trust and improving their teamwork.
Why is Virtual Team Building Important?
Virtual Team Building activities are important because they can build trust within your team. Yes, even though you aren’t physically present together you can still improve team trust and strengthen positive team dynamics.
Based on a study by the Harvard Business Review people at high-trust companies report [2]:
- 74% less stress
- 106% more energy at work
- 50% higher productivity
- 13% fewer sick days
- 76% more engagement
- 29% more satisfaction with their lives
- 40% less burnout
The data shows that developing and maintaining a high-trust company will provide a range of significant impacts to improving your teams work and life.
As a leader you might be concerned with:
- Are your team members feeling isolated and demotivated?
- Is there a lack of trust within your team?
- Are your remote team members struggling due to personal reasons?
- Dealing with a loss of productivity
Or a team member concerned with:
- Lack of motivation individually or as a team
- High levels of stress
- Low team engagement
- Declining job satisfaction
- Increase in feeling burnt out
The statistics are quite compelling in helping to show the value of building a culture of trust and a team that operates together.
See 4 key points that Harvard Business Review suggests for Virtual Teams.
This should help you start to see why this is important and understand some things you can do to improve the way your team operates.
As your team members feel valued and connected they will do better work and be more productive. This productivity can be the difference in improving your bottom line.
18 Easy Virtual Team Building Activities & Ideas To Get You Started
Some of these ideas and activities will be more structured and reminiscent 
of what you would typically envision when you think of team building activities. Many people have a love-hate relationship and really connect or disconnect with these types of activities.
This is why you will see a mix of ideas that help teams to be connected. Some ideas are personal actions, others are group activities. Please don’t discount something just because it is easy or simple.
Really think about what your team needs and set some goals to consistently take action in moving toward your goal.
Some examples that focus on strengthening your company or team cultures in certain ways are listed below with a general thought followed by some potential specific goals.
- Showing more appreciation by taking the time to recognize others
- Recognize 5 Team members each week by text, phone or email when a team member does something positive
- Sending 5 E-cards each week to team members to recognize positive team behaviors and accomplishments
- Taking time to bond or get to know each other on a personal level each staff meeting
- Adding an agenda item to the weekly or monthly staff meeting to spend 5 mins on a team building moment* each week.
- Facilitate one team building activity each month
*This can look very different for each team depending on what you need. It could be get to know you type ideas listed below or others you come up with.
It could be a Team Building Spotlight to highlight positive behaviors and accomplishments of the team or team members.
These are just a couple ideas for you to start your mind thinking about this in a way that you can take action and hold yourself accountable.
Some of the ideas listed are individual actions that you could do to strengthen team relationships and effectiveness as team member or leader.
Others engage the whole team together and should be done as a team.
8 Team Strengthening Ideas
1. Show Gratitude
“Expressing gratitude improves well-being for both expressers and recipients”
Amit Kumar, Nicholas Epley Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago [3]
So send an E-card to a team member saying Thanks or Good Job!
2. Say “Thank You!”
“Saying “thank you” — sincerely and with heart — feels good.”
Peter Bregman, CEO of Bregman Partners [4]
Who doesn’t like feeling good? No one! So remember to literally say Thank you.
“It rewires your brain for positivity, boosts your energy levels, and if your thankfulness is directed at someone else, makes the receiving party feel great.”
Julie Stillman, Inc.com Contribtuor [5]
3. Team Get-To-Know-You Quizzes
This could be done as part of a meeting or standalone by email. It could be done as a series of questions or a single question. It could be multiple choice question or True/False question. It could be done one team member at a time and rotated between the team or it could be done as a group.
This gives the ultimate flexibility to make this fit in a very small window of 5 mins to a more involved activity.
4. Virtual Team Meetings
More than likely you figured this out by now, but just because you don’t see each other every day doesn’t mean there isn’t a need to connect regularly.
This will look different for everyone but figure out what is right for your team and hold virtual team meetings.
The format and style also can change from team to team and company to company so don’t be afraid to adjust.
But video is a huge factor in how effective your virtual meetings are based on these recent stats.
- 94% of businesses say video conferencing increases productivity [6]
- 90% of respondents say video makes it easier to get their point across [7]
- 89% of respondents agree that video conferencing reduces time to complete projects or tasks [7]
- 89% of users say video conferencing helps them feel connected [7]
5. Team Building Moment
Take a few minutes to recognize or share a team building characteristic or team work principle with your team. This is most effective if you can also recognize someone in your team for demonstrating this desired team building characteristic.
This could easily be added to your weekly or monthly staff meeting as a 5 min agenda item.
6. Picture Sharing
Set up some time to spotlight a team member and let them share some photos or pictures they like and explain why they picked them to share.
They could be personal photos or based on a hobby or interest or even something funny that is appropriate to share with everyone.
You could also do this as a group activity and take turns sharing. Everyone could share why they like
7. Fact Sharing
This is another Get-To-Know-You better activity where you could spotlight one team member or do it as a group.
Share something interesting, fun, or even boring with you team that they don’t know. This is a quick chance for team members to get know each other a little more.
8. Perfect Vacation
This is another Get-To-Know-You better activity where you could spotlight one team member or do it as a group.
The idea with this one is that you share what your perfect vacation is with your co-workers. This is also another way for team members to get know each other a little more.
10 Team Building Activities or Games
1. Show & Tell
Good old fashion show and tell everyone can bring something to show and share with the team.
Another simple and quick way to get to know your team better.
2. Psych! Outwit Your Friends
Psych is an app that you can play a game of wits on for free. Several decks are free and they do now offer some paid “decks” or versions within the game as well. (usually $1-$3)
Download this app to play a game that is a lot of fun and you get know folks better in a fun environment.
3. Two Truths & A Lie
Each person playing takes turns stating two true statements about themselves and one false statement.
After each person says their statement, the other group members have to try to figure out which one they made up.
Check out our 4 different variations on this game to change it up a bit.
4. Bucket List
If this is new to you a Bucket List is a list of things you want to do before you “kick the bucket” or pass away. It could include anything they want but commonly might be places to visit, food to eat, or activities to do.
Give team members a heads up on this one as some folks may need to take some time to create one or may want to update one they have. This is an opportunity to for team members to share what they have on their bucket list.
This is again a quick and easy activity that can help your team get closer and have some fun together learning more about each other.
5. Creative Story Telling
This will be a story made up by the whole team together. You start by numbering the group in order by number. It also works if you are sitting in a circle and just go around the circle in order.
Have each team member complete 1-2 sentences of the story and then state the same “hand off” phrase.
For an example lets use and then as the “hand off” phrase. The first person starts by making something up such as “One day I went on a hike into the forest and saw a bear on the trail and then…”
This is the hand off to the next person who is #2 or the next person in circle and they continue for 1-2 sentences saying “I stood deathly still until my dog started running towards the bear “and then…” this hands it off to #3 or the next person in the circle and this continues until everyone has had a turn.
6. Pictionary
The team member drawing the picture can use a program such as Paint to draw and share their screen to draw the word they are trying to get the others to guess.
Then the other team members try to guess what it is. You could have your group divided into two teams. The team that guesses what is being drawn wins that round and gets a point.
7. Charades
This can be a fun way to loosen up and have some fun as a team acting out during words for your team to guess.
If everyone has Guesstures you could also play with virtual team members anywhere.
Additionally this could be a great gift to your team members as well so everyone has it and can play together at a team activity.
8. Back to Back Drawing
Back to Back Drawing has a full description in the link and can also be done virtually with some minor adaptation.
Typically you would split the whole group into partners but doing this virtually can be done more effectively in several other ways.
You could have one person describing the shape and everyone else drawing and then they share their drawings at the end or you could have one set of partners go at a time while everyone else watches.
The second partner will draw the shape based on the first partners verbal description of it. When doing this virtually this could be drawn normally on paper and show everyone when they are complete or you could even have them draw it on an art pad or online white board.
9. Simulated Problem
Come up with a Realistic or Unrealistic Scenario that you put out hypothetically to the team to see how they would work through it.
In fact it is actually better if they try to work through it as their learning and team work would be more representative of what you might expect for a real problem.
This could be a fun and far out problem that doesn’t relate to your team or it could be a practical dry run of something that could happen or has happened in the past.
10. Virtual Book club
Survey the group to see where their interests are and come up with a book rotation that meets the interest of the team or team members that would like to participate. This also gives an avenue for folks to connect with an extra curricular activity and hold regular group meetings to review the books read in the last month.
Some of the activities are really no different than what we would do in person except that they are done virtually, while others are tweaked or updated a little to make them more effective in a remote environment. Others just work best remotely.
Many of these would literally take a few minutes to add onto an existing meeting and can really help improve the unity of your team by strengthening relationships and trust.
Virtually Building Real Teams And Relationships Remotely
Building stronger teams means more engaged teams that demonstrate high levels of the following characteristics.
- Better Communication
- Greater Understanding & Empathy
- Stronger Trust
- Good Personal Connections
- Higher Motivation
- Excellent Team Work
- Excel in Problem Solving together
- Higher Productivity
These characteristics resemble the attributes of an all star team that provide an awesome working environment.
Who doesn’t want to be on a motivated, skilled, productive, fun, and happy team?
Everybody wants to lead and work on a winning team.
So take the time to help your team be a winner.
There are also many more traditional team building games & activities found at 100+ Team Building Activities. Many of these can be adapted to make them work virtually as well.
Hoping your team, remote or not, takes the next step to winning.
Did we miss something you think should be on our list?
Are there other activities or games you’ve tried that your really liked? or really hated?
Let us know in comments below.
- Patrick Lencioni, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/218850-remember-teamwork-begins-by-building-trust-and-the-only-way
- Paul J. Zak, The Neuroscience of Trust, https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust
- Amit Kumar, Nicholas Epley Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Undervaluing Gratitude: Expressers Misunderstand the Consequences of Showing Appreciation
- Peter Bregman, Do You Really Need to Say Thank You?https://hbr.org/2012/11/do-you-really-need-to-say-than
- Jessica Stillman, A New Study Busts All Your Excuses for Not Saying Thank You More, https://www.inc.com/matt-haber/jcrt-fashion-direct-to-consumer-masks-black-lives-matter-pride.html
- 10 Must-Know Video Conferencing Statistics, https://www.slideshare.net/bluejeannw/10-must-know-video-conferencing-stats
- Erinn Wolfe, Video Conferencing Statistics for 2019, https://www.lifesize.com/en/video-conferencing-blog/video-conferencing-statistics#:~:text=94%25%20of%20businesses%20say%20video,helps%20them%20feel%20connected%20%5B1%5D
Fully agree that virtual conferencing and virtual team building are essential particularly during this era of working remotely due to the COVID19 pandemic. It is great that you have outlined here a lot of ideas in this regard. Virtual team building will help keep your team engaged and committed even though you may not be working in the same location due to the current restrictions. The ideas can be leveraged not only for workgroups but even by families or your circle of friends. Thank you for sharing this valuable information and your insights.
Thanks – Yes these ideas can be used or modified for pretty much any group – families, teams, work groups, church groups, classrooms and the list goes on.
I believe that trust is one of the most important parts of any business and really there are ways that working remotely might not work for so many people and this is the reason why I totally agree with the tips you have given here to help build a better working relationship at work. I need to try out these tips even at my place of work too and see how it can help. This is a good post.
Payton,
Thanks!
I believe trust is a critical foundation to relationships – for individuals as well as teams. I’m glad you found this useful and feel free to come back and add a comment for anything you try out in (even if it’s something we didn’t list in our post)
This is a great idea with so many people working at home now. I like the idea that involves drawing. I have found that some will not participate but it will also show you who your leaders are. It will give you a good gauge to the harmony in your group as well.
It would be neat if they could do virtual escape room also.
Sam – Glad you liked it. I am sure there will continue to be new ideas and ways of moving more current team building activities and ideas to a virtual friendly format.
Since most businesses are now favouring work at home, freelancers, contractors and remote working, it is integral to focus on ways to really bolster our chances of coping with the world and to re-empower ourselves to develop. I actually like the fact that you have given the overview of the way to engage in this virtual team building and I love this.
Thumbs up to you for sharing this post here.
Sherry,
I’m glad you liked the post.
I really like this list that you have put together. Team building is hugely important, no matter what setting you are working in. I have experienced firsthand what happens when staff members who are supposed to be coming together as a team couldn’t be further apart. It really starts to affect nearly every aspect of the day and can lead to a lot of frustration. I’m thinking that implementing these tips would be a great way to overcome that, so thanks!
I’m glad you liked it – let me know how it goes when try them out.
Encouraging and motivating your team is key if you want to be successful. However, it becomes a challenge when you’re all located in different places.
You mentioned recognition is important, and I totally agree. I worked for a company that would do this, and I must say it felt really good to be recognized by your superiors. It goes a long way, trust me.
Regarding the activities/games you mention, how can you do them virtually? Storytelling is possible, but what about let’s say Pictionary? That would be hard to do virtually.
Thanks for sharing. I’m sure others will find this interesting as well.
Enrique,
Yes motivating and creating a positive atmosphere through recognition and strong relationships are key to building strong high performing teams.
Pictionary could be done using a program like Paint – the person that is drawing picks a word or you could get fancy and come up with a random word generator. To keep it simple you could have a theme such as Sports and the person that is it picks a word within that theme to draw. They share their screen with Webex or Zoom or whatever software your company uses to the rest of the team on the call. You can divide your group into two teams and the first team that guesses the word wins that round and gets a point.
Most games and activities can be adapted or tweaked slightly to be able to do them virtually as well. just takes a little planning and thought.
Hello there, I must say that you have done a great job in bringing out these superb ideas and I know I am not the only benefactor as this is one of the types of information that is really relevant in recent times…thanks a lot for sharing I would definitely put this into work.
Thanks glad you enjoyed it – please let me know how it goes when you try it out.
As a teacher and trainer, I was immediately drawn to the content of your site. As you describe, moving to the online classroom has certainly been a challenge. There are some great ideas shared here and the opportunity to buy the book is attractive. I like the site layout and found it easy to navigate.
Helen,
I’m glad you like the content and glad you found the site easy to navigate. Let me know how it goes if you try out any of ideas or try other ideas not listed here I’d love to hear about them.
This is a nice niche you are writing about. When I was in corporate world, I was always on a lookout for team-building ideas. And here it is. I am sure lot of people in the corporate world will benefit by reading your blog. And the virtual team building comes at the right time due to recent lock-down owing to COVID-19.
The basis of any team building is trust. Team members need to feel valued and connected in order to build good teams and be productive in achieving results.
I was a big fan of “Two Truths and a Lie” and included in almost all team building exercise. It helped to open up to one another and build trust in each of the team members.
Thanks for sharing this post. Do keep writing more on these subject.
Yes, two truths and a lie is a great one – I agree that trust is the foundation of great teams.
Thank you for sharing a lovely, informative article with us. The chief item of this article is virtual team building activities & ideas. It is truly amazing that you covered this subject so well in your post. I’ve learned a lot from reading your post and gained a lot of knowledge about it. You can’t succeed without virtual tuning right now because you need your community at every step. That’s why I have built a virtual team using the platform mentioned in your article and my team is playing an important role in my business.
I have read and enjoyed your article so I would like to share your article with my friends by sharing it in the Facebook group so that everyone can know about your article and gain knowledge about it.
Thanks – I’m glad you found it helpful enough to share.
Due to covid I and my team have been forced to work remotely. I have embraced this challenge and we have been doing well during this past month but I continue to research about ways to improve. I know how important showing gratitude is to my team but I haven’t been practicing it since we started working remotely. I’ll begin by congratulating those that have been more productive each week. There are several good ideas here, besides the one I just mentioned. I’ll implement as many as I can. Thank you!
Glad it reminded you to show gratitude – let me know how it goes when you try out any of these ideas or any others that you come across.
Everyone wants to be part of a winning team. You have described a multitude of fun activities to make people work together or share together. The important part in this whole exercise is You know the team member better in informal circumstances.
I have been through several of them in my corporate life. I loved each of them. Does it help in your corporate life? Every analysis I have seen points to spending money unnecessarily. My overall feeling and experiences are mixed with team building exercises.
You are driven by a corporate manager. Depending on how this one person is you have to behave how he or she wants you to behave. I always feel that managers should be trained more in the corporate world to use their power wisely to create positive dynamics among the team of people including being fair and honest.
During Covid19 time virtual team building may help in boosting team spirits when they are trapped inside all the time. I have heard several corporations are sharing pictures, activities they enjoy, celebrating if there is a birthday, doing virtual baby showers, talking about kids being trapped with parents at home, remotely working out with friends etc…
Anusuya,
Yes, a lot more work has gone into trying to do virtual team building activities and exercises to strengthen and motivate virtual & remote teams. There has definitely been a big change to how we approach building winning teams this year. Let me know if you try any of the ideas or others and how they work for you.
Indeed there is strength in unity and so many of us need to learn how to be a team player because without that ability to be a team player, we sometimes can’t make progress and that is not good at all. In the past, I use to be shy about working with people until I gave it a trial and that was my best project in a long time. Showing appreciation to others makes it really fun and lively actually .
Yes coming together and working together as team can not only accomplish amazing results but also create amazing experiences for those on team.
Great! As an English teacher for too long (!) I’d say a lot of these ideas would be great to adapt for online teaching in groups where students are now in Zoom lessons and away from physical contact with each other. I can imagine using some of these especially if students can say something during them and it can create a sense of togetherness that they aren’t currently enjoying. The 100 tips list is very useful too! Great job!
Louise, I’m glad you found it useful. If try any of these out or others that you find let me know how it went.
Glad you liked our collection of over 100+ team building activities with free detailed activity descriptions for each.
A lot for businesses and companies have been forced to work remotely due to the covid 19 outbreak and it’s really affected some because they are not used to working like that. Building a team virtually can be a difficult task sometimes if one doesn’t know the right ways. Thanks for sharing these activities, they’ll be a great help.
The working environment for many folks has changed significantly this year really driving a lot more need to build virtual teams and stronger relationships remotely.
Thank you for sharing. You covered virtual team building activities & ideas so well in your post. I’ve learned a lot from reading your post and gained a lot of knowledge about it. You can’t succeed without virtual team tuning right now because you need your team functioning fully. That’s why I have built a virtual team using the principles and some ideas mentioned in your article and my team is playing an important role in my business.
I have really enjoyed your article and plan on sharing it with my friends so that everyone can benefit from it.
Glad you liked it. We all see many benefits as our teams work well with each other. They have great potential and can achieve amazing things when they work together.
This type of team building on a remote basis has become even more important through this worldwide health crisis. I have been using Zoom to connect with my teams throughout the world as well as locally. It definitely keep everyone up to date on current projects and allows people to brainstorm new ideas online as well. In fact, today I had a very productive meeting with people all over the world as we put together the pieces of our current project. Thanks for your valuable insights and tips.
Joseph thanks for sharing your experiences. Working together and building teams remotely has become even more critical to business success this year.
Honestly, I got stuck in the article because I like what I’m reading. I even wonder how can I get back to this article because if I bookmark this in my browser, there are already too many bookmarked pages in my browser so I doubt I would still be able to find this easily thru bookmarking. What’s the best way to get back to here?
Currently, I’m helping a small church grow and since most of the members are youth, I find the suggestions here applicable especially the team building ideas. I think they can be used not only in business but also in a religious setting as well. They’re fun activities and I’m sure our members will love them.
Gomer,
Thanks, glad you found our content engaging and useful. You are right this can be used in any setting with teams or groups not just work- such as churches, schools, classes, families, clubs, societies, or anywhere you get together with a group or team.
In case you didn’t see this on the site we have a library of over 100+ team building activities and games you can check them out at https://ventureteambuilding.co.uk/team-building-activities/
You can also sign up for some free team building activities that you can download here and we will add you to our email list. https://ventureteambuilding.co.uk/5-fun-team-building-activities/#.XyAwpJ5KiM8
This let’s us reach out to you with deals and updates to the site regularly.
As far as the bookmarking goes you have a few options – you can create folders and save your bookmarks in folders this makes it easier to find something later and still save a lot of bookmarks. Or you can use a stand alone book manager such as Google Bookmarks, Pocket, Instapaper etc.. there are tons to save and organize your bookmarks.
Thanks for a really great article. Now more than ever, virtual team building is very much needed, especially as everyone is working remotely. I feel like some of the bond I had with some of my team has diminished slightly over the last few months due to lack of contact and the fact we’ve all been so busy so I think some of these ideas are really great to build relationships back up and strengthen those bonds again. I’m going to try some of these ideas out and see how we get on!
Will,
Glad to hear you like it. Please drop me a comment and let me know how it went once you try some ideas out.
This is a perfect site that is promoting oneness, togetherness, and team work as it is the main purpose of achieving what you intend to do during this time of chaos. I really like it. Thank you.
You’re Welcome – Glad you like it.
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this great article to know more about virtual team building activities ideas.
After working from home this year, I came to realize how difficult it is to be a good team member when you can’t go out for a coffee or for a night out with other team members and how hard it is to know more about them.
Teamwork is not easy when you only see other members via a small screen, it’s easy to fail to read body language and hard to know if someone is needed some help.
You have here a few great tips that will help me to create some activities with my team, I’m sure they will love to read your article and they will come up with some ideas on how and when we can do some of your ideas!
Alejandra,
I’m glad you found this useful. Let me know how it goes when try out some of the ideas.
Hello, Just read your blog post “Virtual team building activities/ideas”. This is a great idea with so many people working at home now. Virtual meeting and virtual team building are essential particularly during this era of working remotely due to this pandemic. I totally agree with the tips you have given here to help build a better working relationship at work. Thanks for sharing this insightful post here.
You’re welcome
What an interesting perspective you have given us regarding the efforts we must put together in order to have our team and ourselves thrive when we’re feeling like there’s really not much to push forwards to. A team that’s not comfortable, trustworthy and insecure about their abilities is not going to properly work as a team and it’ll make it all difficult and it’ll eventually become a chaotic experience for others. Thank you for sharing this with us, so important to keep all of these keynotes with us and put them into action when it comes to team work.
There have been a lot of changes this year that have really challenged our status quo fo doing things.
With the impact of COVID on not just businesses but the whole world has been devastated. Team building is even more essential than it has been previously as the workplace is now spread out due to people working from home and not coming together at a central workplace. Virtual team building is a thing that will grow even more in the future.
It is more critical now in our current situations – which also requires some adapting to accommodate our virtual landscape, but it is possible so hopefully, this article helped.
A great article that can serve as a guide on how to be a great colleague. Definitely there is a higher motivation in each coworker when working together, whether it is in an office or remotely.
An article that everyone should read that is working from home, and are feeling lost. The socialization is what we miss most out of this situation, but setting up virtual team building activities will surely boost the motivation and reduce the boredom.
Thanks – we all need to connect with others some need more social interaction than others but it is still needed at some level for everyone.
Interesting data, thank you for sharing. I’m seasoned at remote/virtual working at home. It’s funny because now all I do is crave social interaction, even though nothing has changed for me. Proves that we often want what we don’t have. I bet if I went back into an office setting, all I’d want is to go back to independent working from home.
Honestly, I do enjoy working in silence, so to music (of my choice), or taking a break to water the flowers, do some yoga, fold a quick load of warm laundry. I like the everyday home distractions because it keeps me moving, juggling projects, and challenging my superwoman capabilities.
Working from home is no lazy joke. There’s no As The World Turns daily soap opera watching (okay I just aged myself) Point is, I don’t have time to watch day time TV, therefore I don’t know what’s even on these days? I’m happy to work remotely away from the quarantine politics and negative talk. Life outside of my home is not as comfortable as it is at home. Don’t’ get me wrong, I do road trips to our vacation homes to break up the monotony, but man do I love the place I call home!
What do you typically do for social interactions? Do you think it is more prevalent now that it is such a bigger focus worldwide due to the shift in virtual workers?
Thanks for sharing these – extremely helpful for managers that currently work remotely. There’s 2 or 3 ideas that I’ll be using on my next team call. I’ve been looking through your list of team activities but I noticed you have only posted 1 new article in nearly a year?? I sincerely hope you haven’t given up on the website, it would be a great shame. Regardless, thanks for sharing these resources with us – I’ll be sending the link to other area managers at work. Paul
Paul – Glad you like the site. Thanks for sharing!
Yes there is a lot of great content and team building activities I have been working through the direction & strategy of the site going forward as well as working through some health issues.
Hi Thanks for sharing the ideas about virtual team building is there any disadvantages for virtual team building
Yes some of the biggest disadvantages I’ve seen relate to what can be lost in the face-to-face interaction. In-person interaction lets you see the body language of participants and make a tangible connection. This is something that can be more difficult when done virtually. How do you ensure the team is still engaged and provide meaningful connection? When thought about and executed be sure to get feedback to continually improve and adapt to meet your purpose.
Even with the challenges of doing it virtually you can still be successful in team building virtually.
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