Are you looking for a quick, and fun virtual team-building exercise
that really can collaborate and bring teams together in under 10 minutes, well
I have something for you, just a few months ago, I actually shared my
team-building poncho exercise, and it has exploded, I'll put the link below for you
so you can check it out, now I've also gotten tons of requests
because of that video, how can I turn that live in-person exercise and make it
work for remote teams, so guess what, I've done that for you, so let me
share that with you, if you're facilitating meetings, chances are you're
probably managing projects as well, and if you want to be a project manager
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find out about how to do this cool remote team-building activity, then like
this video, and let's get to it, okay, for this exercise you're gonna need a few
things, and the first thing is you need is some sort of file-sharing service like
One Drive, or Google Drive, now as well, you're gonna need a spreadsheet, so some
form of spreadsheet, whether that's an Excel spreadsheet, or a Google sheet,
whatever it is that works for you, but you are gonna need something that you can
have multiple tabs with, take note, there is a two part aspect to this exercise,
there's a preparatory phase that you have to do in advance, and then there's
the actual execution stage, so let's get to that prep phase, okay now for the part
one preparation stage, as I said you're gonna have to prepare this in advance, so
you're gonna go into your share Drive service, whichever one that is, and you're
gonna create an Excel spreadsheet, or Google sheet, or whichever spreadsheet
service that you use, and in that you're gonna create the exercise information, so
let me get to that, so I can show that for you,
so you call this, I call this a virtual poncho exercise, so for me, in excel,
you're going to want to create tabs, one for every individual in your team, so for
me I have five people who are gonna be in this
particular meeting, so I have five tabs, one per person, now what's really
interesting too is, not only do I number them, but I color code them,
because the whole essence of this exercise is that, everyone in the meeting
is going to have to go into everybody's tab and write something about that
particular person, what they appreciate about them, and at least with color, if
you didn't have it, you wouldn't know whether or not you hit that color or not,
so it's just a visual way to make sure that everybody gets to
everybody's tab, and so when you do that, you're going to make your tabs, how many
you have for the people, and in each tab all you're gonna do is what I appreciate
about you is, and you'll notice it's the same thing for every single tab, now once
you're done this, you're just gonna save your document, and it's gonna be back in
your cloud, okay, as I said, once you save it you're gonna have to share it with
everybody, so right before the meeting what you're gonna want to do is, you want
to go back into your document, cuz you would have created this again, way in
advance, and you want to share it with everyone who's gonna be participating,
and when you do so, there's usually like a pop-up that you can put some special
instructions, just say to them, don't touch this until I am ready to tell you
to get into it, and what's really nice is, at the beginning of the meeting, you can
just make sure everybody has that particular link, because that's gonna be
really critical, you do want the online, being able to work on it together in the
cloud, really critical, part two, execution, you are now in your actual remote team
virtual meeting, alright, you're looking at your screen, you're talking to all
your team members, and, based on that, you can say, guess what everyone, have a
really cool fun exercise for you, it's a poncho exercise, but guess what, it is
virtual, so, what do we have to do, and I want you to listen, because the
instructions are gonna be this team, you're gonna go to a link, I'm gonna
tell you to do that in a minute, and when you do, you're gonna open up an Excel
spreadsheet, on that spreadsheet there's a tab with everybody's name, I need you
to go into every single tab and make sure you address everybody, and you're
gonna tell them what you appreciate about them, the goal here is,
not to be focusing on when people are writing about you, and your tab, but to be
writing in everybody else's, so on a count of ten, I'm gonna ask everyone to
go in their email, click on that link so you can get to that file shared document
that's in our cloud service, whichever one that may be that your company uses,
and you're gonna go boom, everybody's gonna start the process of writing down
what they appreciate about the other team members, now as a
facilitator you do have a job, and the job is this, you want to be monitoring
the time, you want five to ten minutes for this, again it's gonna be dependent
upon how many people are on your team, and how many tabs people have to go
through, you also want to let people know, because some people struggle a bit, and
you can say listen, if you don't know the people in the room, say something like
you really appreciate the work they've done for you, or their smile, or you're
glad that they've come to this meeting, and you're meeting them for the first
time, it really stretches people to start thinking outside of their box, and really
focusing on people around them, it's amazing, there's a lot of beautiful
things we can be grateful for, for people, once you're done the monitoring aspect
of it, all right you're gonna have your stopwatch, you're gonna ask people to
stop, and once they've done that, you're gonna say okay, on a count of three I'm
gonna have everybody go into your specific tab, and with quiet,
no sharing, read what people have said about you, one, two, three, and just that
alone, you can, in a live session it is so cool, because you can feel the gratitude,
you can feel people, actually some people get really emotional, they're so
touched by what people say, but how cool is it in a virtual setting, to just
share what we appreciate with other people, it's so much easier to do that
live, and sometimes we forget with virtual sessions, because we just want to
be about business, and getting things done, because let's be honest, being on a
virtual team call, man it's slightly tiring, and there's long hours being in
front of that computer screen, but we can't forget the team bonding, okay, now
that you have a really cool virtual remote team bonding building activity,
whatever you want to call it, something that's really cool about appreciation
for the people around you by the way, I'm so excited about this, and I'm so glad
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virtual activity go for you if you did it, I would love to hear from you, or if
you have some other ideas, please put them in the comments below, and until
next time talk to you later bye