Published on: 24/June/2020
Sometimes playing together as friends and colleagues is not enough; we need a special activity that can make remote adventures also important in the corporate world. Team building ideas are very important in an office; it is a way employees secretly pick out their best people to perform important tasks. In other organizations, it is another way of boosting corporate relationships amongst the staff.
In some business organizations, employers take time to engage in one or two team-building activities to lite the workplace. In a more social setting, team-building activities are often played in birthday parties, teenage gatherings, or normal casual friends’ hangouts.
Wildly Different Virtual team building events are one of the most popular ways to have great experience without having to travel. They can also be a good way for companies that have large teams or remote workers to get together and have some fun.
Nevertheless, people often mistake team-building activities for regular fun-fare games. Still, the thing is, typical team-building ideas have three features, the ability to leave the venue closer and more intimate, the ability to make the participants think critically, and the ability to bring out the best in you. Below, we have listed some really interesting team-building activities you need to engage in. Below, they are listed thus:
6 Team building Ideas you should know
Virtual Escape Game
This game is named one of the most popular virtual escape rooms played during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed by a real-life escape room acquaintance, in this game, this challenge kicks off in some enchanted forest that is only accessible through Zoom. In this game, you are meant to help in solving puzzles and plot an escape from a witch’s curse. But unlike those team building ideas we have earlier mentioned, Every player participating in this game is meant to pay $30 per person, again, you have to book your room in before the game commences properly.
one good thing about team building ideas is their power to unite new people and straighten bounds amongst old ones. Business organizations should endeavor to engage in activities like this to straighten bounds amongst workers and discover new talents. Again, it helps build an individual’s self-esteem, hence, boost their morale. But you have to note that the fact we mentioned those team-building ideas does not mean that this is all that is; it’s just that they (the ones mentioned above) are the most popular.
Virtual escape rooms provide a challenging and immersive adventure for teams of all kinds and in any location. Players get the same puzzles and tasks to overcome as they would in a physical room all while working towards a shared goal – escaping!
Played via Zoom, The Escape Game’s Remote Adventures hold up to 8 players and are guided by a host in the room with a live camera feed. Teams will direct their guide through the adventure while picking up clues in their digital dashboard to solve puzzles and complete their mission in 60 minutes!
For even more awesome team-building ideas check out The Escape Game’s blog here.
Campfire Stories
This requires you to create some sets of trigger words that propensity to start a storytelling session. Some of the words that are likely to be used include “side project,” work travel,” and “partnership.” When these words are collected, they are added to sticker notes for reference. All suggested sticker notes are arraigned and divided; then, the participants are invited to choose from the array of striker notes.
When they pick their favorite sticker note, they will now be asked to use it to share their experience; whichever sticker notes that is picked are shifted to one side of the board to avoid being picked again. The interesting part of this game is that while one is sharing his/her experience, others are meant to jot down words related to their own experience from the person’s story. Once these words are collected, again, they will be pasted on the whiteboard. This process is repeated until the whiteboard is filled with words probably extracted from different experiences that were recounted.
Memory Wall
This one can get a little bit emotional if you are not psychologically strong. It lady about 40-50 mins, and requires all the participants to sketch their memories, then paste them on the wall. Participants are given some sheets of paper, a marker, and a tape, and they will be divided into two or three and given some rooms to survey. Each team is given 15 mins to do this, after which you then come back and recount your experiences while on the task.
When recounting your memories, you are meant to share these experiences by drawing the memories of the activity on the sheets given to you. The drawing mustn’t be exact; it should be abstract remnants of the “memory scene.” The moderator is meant to give each participant 30 mins each to do the sketching. Once this time elapses, you will be expected to take your memory sketch on the wall. Once one group takes their drawing to the walls, other participants are called to examine and explain those memories. There is no winner or loser; they all boil down to creating bounds amongst the team.
Low-Tech Social Network
Don’t be carried away by the name; you don’t need to log on to social media of any kind; all you need do is map out the link between two or more members and stick it on the whiteboard. Every participating team is meant to create their avatars and draw lines explaining how they got to know the other team members. This game is often played at birthday parties or get-togethers, where there are new faces in attendance. It serves as a way of getting to know each attendee.
Spectrum Mapping
This game requires first identifying a few primary topics that you want the participants to comment on. As the moderator, you have to write down the topics on the whiteboard and then ask the participating teams to write down their opinions about the whiteboard topic. As they write these things down, stick them horizontally along the topics; keep sticking until everyone contributes. The popular opinions go to the left, while the unpopular ones go to the right. Teams will have to discuss each of the topics based on popular demand.
Code of Conduct
This game is simple yet makes a lot of sense. It aims to build a common consensus that builds value amongst the participants. To start this game, the participating teams will have to list what matters the most to them; they are to write this down on a whiteboard, e.g., “Pleasant and “Meaningful.” The group’s moderator will have to ask all participating teams to write down their ideas on a sticky note. The moderator will now have to record each participant’s opinion but will do it in the form of a map.
As a moderator, you have to make sure that each participant has a comprehensive understanding of the original idea; if that is not the case, change (and keep changing) until you reach a common consensus with the rest of the participants. The moderator will now go through each of the suggested ideas and ask them how they think those ideas will be applied in the gathering (workshops or seminars) and then record them on the whiteboard in sticky notes. After this, all the ideas with the highest support are recorded on the board as “meaningful or pleasant,” afterward, the moderator creates a code of conduct for the group. And on the side of the participating teams, they are responsible for upholding this code.