More Ideas for Virtual Teambuilding Activities to Keep Your Team Engaged
We have more good applicable ideas to better engage your remotely working team members:
・Virtual Workout
Purpose: To advocate health and wellness among your team members who work remotely.
Not all your team members are familiar with working remotely, especially, when they operate from home. The whole situation has its set of side effects on mental wellness as well as on the physical. In recent years, organizations have become more and more inclined towards promoting the health and more well-being of their employees. Some organizations facilitate gyms on-premises, others arrange wellness programs. However, in such case of working remotely, managers can take this to a whole new level.
They can do the Virtual Workout in numbers of ways:
- One week, assign an X number of squats, lunges, pushups and, jumping jacks. And if you want to add more challenges you can introduce burpees to the game.
- Another week, achieve a certain number of steps.
- The week after, run a certain number of kilometers.
- The following week, you can all gather for a 30-minute Yoga session. Each team member can lead a session rotationally.
You can rather gamify the experience by allocating first, second, and third places. Also by deciding on weekly rewards.
The benefits of such virtual team building activity are:
- Boosting the mental and physical wellness of your team members.
- Encourages healthy competition within the team.
- The gamification of the activities works as an incentive for all team members to engage more and to achieve.
The above activity can be done in several ways:
- Virtual-Office Olympics: it can be run out on one day and gather different teams from different departments.
- Team Power: and this can happen n the long run, as suggested above, over the weeks in one team, and each week there is a different challenge.
- Champions: each team member picks the work out they prefer and share with the team their progress and tries to break their personal best.
This virtual teambuilding boosts the employees’ confidence not only their wellness.
Duration: You can specify from 20 minutes to 1 hour depending on the activity and number of sets (when applicable).
・Crack the Code
Purpose: To encourage out-of-the-box thinking, team collaboration, and ideas generation and implementation.
To help your teammates engage more and to pursue their daily tasks and beat the routine, puzzle their brains up. Your team members mostly spend their every day in front of a machine; it does not matter the task at hand, but repetition is sure to drain their energy and consume their mental stamina. To build upon the physical activity, give something that entices the brain; and what is better than puzzles, riddles, and codes? You can plan out the reveal of the codes to be, for example, the values of the company, new regulations that you want to run down by the team, or just some trivia for the fun of it and to just take your team members’ minds off things.
Here are some suggestions that you can consider:
- It’s in the Color
Start off by asking your team members their favorite colors, ask them about the colors of the walls of their surroundings and collect answers. Depending on their number split them into groups, favorably the group does not contain more than four.
And then post them this:
Then give them a hint:
B from Blue = 1 so it is the first letter and the same thing with R in red.
The Solution to the code is T the fourth letter in white, E the second letter in yellow, A the third letter in black, and M the first letter in magenta: T E A M.
- Throwback to the ‘90s
How would you solve this?
8-33-2-6 33-66-4-2-4-33-6-33-66-8
You can give them a hint: 90’s technology.
Answer: TEAM ENGAGEMENT.
Duration: from 20 to 45 minutes. This depends on the codes and the build-up. Also, it depends on the number of participants.
・Coffee Together
Purpose: Team bridging and building stronger communication.
This one is rather simple, and your team members will all love it and feel refreshed afterward. Allocate times for breaks and treat them as informal team virtual gatherings. Gather up together with your cups of coffee or favorite drinks and start discussing matters of interest.
Such meetings allow your team to de-stress and bounce back with more energy and motivation.
Duration: 15 to 30 minutes, depending on the size of the team.
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