After everything is separated, place each slip into a balloon, blow it up and tie it. This game works best if you color-coordinate your balloons for each group of four students.
For example, group one will have red balloons and group two will have green balloons. You will want each group to have a full sentence.
Whether each group has a different sentence or the same is up to you when you prepare the game. It is also fun to put a few words in balloons that do not relate to the target sentence—though in this case, let your students know that there will be extra words.
This will create an opportunity for students to collaborate more as they put the sentence puzzle together. This game promotes listening, quick English thinking, sentence structure, collaboration and communication. Write the first half of each proverb on one side of a card, and the second half on the other side. It is a good idea to separate the two sides by color. For example, the first part of the proverb will be in red and the second part in blue.
This will keep things organized as your students begin flipping cards. You will need two to four decks of these proverbs, depending how many groups you will have. It is recommended to have two to six students per group, depending on class size.
The verb boat race is an exciting game that involves connecting subject pronouns with verbs. The skills this game promotes are writing, collaboration, reading and quick English expression as groups race down the line, matching subject pronouns with verbs.
Additionally, try adding virtual backgrounds, filters, masks and 3D effects to make your virtual happy hours even more fun and engaging. Synchronized streaming allows groups and individuals all over the world to come together and watch the same movie in real time. To keep things interesting, start a roundup of movie suggestions for the month and have everyone vote on which one they want to watch, or set a theme for each month.
For example, horror or thriller movies could go great in October, while holiday-themed blockbusters might get everyone in the holiday spirit in December. Encourage everyone to bring some popcorn and their favorite drinks to enjoy a fun virtual movie night with their coworkers. Do you have some avid music lovers or amateur DJs on your team? This simple team-building exercise lets one coworker volunteer to share a playlist of their favorite songs, their favorite working tracks or even favorite home workout music.
You can combine this event with a virtual happy hour to really spice things up. Additionally, you can create a virtual water cooler team meeting room using Lifesize that allows employees to casually chat about their lives and strengthen personal connections , check in with one another and share any good news happening in their lives or local communities.
With a virtual talent show, you can see just what your team is passionate about outside of work and give them an avenue to showcase those passions. To encourage participation, you can give out prizes to the top talent. Themed contests can be a fun way to inject a little levity into the day-to-days of remote work.
Create simple themes each week that let everyone take part, like cleanest home desk, funniest selfie or best dressed at home awards. Invite staff members to recommend categories for your next contest. Make it more interactive by letting people vote on their favorite entries, then announce the winner at the end of each week. If you can, give a special reward like a gift card or even send a gift to each of the winners so people are excited to take part in the contests.
You can translate those beloved trivia nights at the pub into virtual trivia games using video conferencing. For additional team building, create small groups that can work together to answer the questions and compete against the other teams.
Here are some examples:. The first team member to bring back the correct item and show everyone on the conference call wins a point. Last but not least, many remote teams have turned to virtual bingo as a way to stay connected and have some fun.
You can play traditional bingo virtually or use the Lifesize Conference Call Bingo board to make your team calls more enjoyable. Investing time and resources into remote team building activities may seem like a distraction from getting work done, but it can actually help build a stronger, more connected team that accomplishes more together.
Here are a few benefits of virtual team building. Team cohesion can help keep employee engagement and morale high, especially when team members form strong bonds with their coworkers. Team-building activities that promote a positive company culture help employees get to know one another on a deeper level, strengthen relationships and contribute to the overall success of the team.
With virtual team building, remote teams can get to know their coworkers outside of work and find deeper ways to bond and build trust with one another. Ultimately, this cascades into the way they collaborate on the job and work toward the same business development goals.
This disengagement led to decreased productivity, higher absenteeism and overall loss of revenue for companies. With virtual team building, you can keep employees productive and engaged, especially when coworkers form strong bonds and personal connections.
The higher level of engagement will lead to greater output and productivity. If you want to take your virtual team-building games and activities to the next level, Lifesize is equipped to help you host high quality and immersive video conferencing experiences. The lifelike video quality and superior audio lets your team members clearly see and hear one another to connect on a deeper level and and even use screen-sharing when needed.
Lifesize also integrates with popular calendar and scheduling tools and chat apps so you have a seamless experience across all your collaboration tools. These corporate exercises and games that build unity of purpose among employees vary in intensity, and can run from the very high-energy type that are held outdoors, to those that are marked by quiet engagement in an indoor environment. Below are 3 of the best team building activities for building group cohesion that can be used as is, or modified to suit the size and other needs of a corporate workforce.
This team building activity is intended to build trust and mend rifts in relationships. It can be done either outdoors or in a large indoor space. That person will be blindfolded. The other half of each pair will stay outside of the mine field and give verbal navigational instructions to the trekker to get through the minefield safely and successfully. Be sure to set up rules for this game, for example, if a person bumps into an object, they might have to stand still for one minute while other people advance to the finish line to win an identified prize.
To do this cohesion building exercise, choose a well known cartoon character or picture that has lots of detail and cut this into as many squares as there are participants in the game making sure they are all of equal size. Next, distribute a piece of this puzzle to each participant along with sketching tools such as pencils, rulers, paper, and markers, and ask each person to redraw the elements of their piece of the picture, but five times bigger than what they were given.
At the end of their drawing, let participants place their up-sized drawing on a table and fit all the pieces together to see if they fit.
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