Do you want to do some team bonding activities with your team, but everybody
is working from a virtual office, by the end of this video I'm gonna give you
some super fun virtual team-building activities that are gonna help boost
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every Wednesday, and in this video I'm gonna give you four virtual team bonding
activities that help break the monotony of remote business meetings, not only
that, they actually give some connectivity for your team's, because you
get to know a little bit more about them too, so if you could use this, give this
video a thumbs up, and let's get to it. The really cool thing about these
virtual team bonding activities is that, you can do them at the beginning of your
meeting, you can actually interject them throughout your meeting, or if you have a
standard meeting with the same people, you actually can split it out over time,
over multiple meetings, it's really going to be up to you, that is a cool thing
with all these activities, so on that note, let's do the first one.
Virtual team-building activity number one cutie pie, alright, this is just
all-around fun, so what you do is, you ask everyone who is going to be attending
the meeting to send to you in advance, if you're the meeting facilitator, pictures
of them when they were babies, now what you do is, when they come in you actually
interject them in the PowerPoint, so you take little snippets, everyone kind of
gets their own page, so that you can forward the PowerPoint to each person,
and you can do it as a round-robin, so when you kick off your meeting, hey guys
I have something fun for you, remember those baby pictures, let's guess who is
whom and you put up a picture, and then you can even do a round-robin, or
people can shout out, I think it's so and so, here, that person, or if you're not
shouting things out, you can even put it in the little messenger portion of all
virtual meetings, right, those little chat rooms, so what a fun way to
start it off, and again, a great way to get to know how people
were when they were tiny, it actually opens up and leads to other
conversations after the meeting. Virtual team-building activity number two, once
upon a time, okay this one is excellent when you want to bring about creativity
and people, and I'm letting you know, it brings about fits of laughter as well,
so as a facilitator, you're gonna let the team know sort of the ground rules,
you're gonna build a story, that's a fictional story, something to have a
lot of fun, and you're gonna do it in a round robin fashion, which means every
person is gonna have a chance in this, in sequential order, but the key is, you
have to build the story, and have it come to a conclusion by the time it reaches
the last person, so you don't want to leave that last person hanging where
they're scrambling to actually finish up the story, and you
only have a sentence, that's it, one sentence, so it is hilarious, and just a
great way to bring about creativity, and prep people particularly if you're
having a virtual brainstorming session, or if you just want to have some fun
collectively as a group, so you kick it off as a facilitator by saying, once upon
a time there was a boy, and then the next person goes and goes, it is hilarious I
highly recommend this one. Super easy virtual team-building activity number
three, and that is last word response, okay, so like the previous exercise, you
can do this in a round robin fashion, and what I mean by that again is, whoever is
speaking, the next person in line is gonna be the person to the
left or the right, however you go about doing this, and then you just go around
the room in that fashion, so it's very sequential, but the whole purpose of this
one, is to really practice active listening, why, because we all know in
meetings we get distracted, and sometimes we're not focusing on what people are
saying, and it is critical in a virtual meeting to be really focusing on what
people are saying, you're not together in a room, and it's really easy to get
distracted, so with this particular exercise you can pick any topic, like hey,
how was your weekend, or what are you gonna be working on, or whatever that may
be, and the person speaks, and the person next to them is supposed to take in the
last sentence, or the last few words, depending on how it's said, and integrate
that into their story, so it becomes really interesting, or
what they're saying, so it becomes really interesting, you really have to listen to
what is being said, so you can take that information and ensure you kickoff your
story with that information that was just said, okay, last but not least,
virtual team-building activity number four, and that is three truths 1 lie, ok,
I've actually done this one before with you, but it is such an easy one to bring
into virtual team meetings, and what a great way to get to know your team a
little bit more, so what you do is, everyone is supposed to tell the group
three truths about them, and one lie, mix it all up, and everyone is supposed to
guess which one is the lie, this is a lot of fun, and again, you can introduce
this throughout your meeting, or you can do it in the beginning of your meeting,
or, you can space it throughout multiple meetings, but what a great and
fun way to get to know your team members a little bit better, ok, now that you know
how to have some fun with your virtual team meetings by doing these
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know if you have any other virtual team-building activities that you would
recommend, please put them in the comments below, I would love to hear from
you, until next time see you later