Activities

Games and exercises to energise meetings, build connections, and spark creativity in your workplace.

Cards Against Insanity

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When you are running a virtual workshop or meeting, there are so many things that can distract the flow – ranging from annoying to pretty much driving you insane.  This is a great activity to run at the start of the session. With a bit of creativity and fun, you can keep your virtual meetings on track. 

Everyone creates their own cards symbolising comments, instructions or distractions, such as ‘there is too much background noise, please mute’. They hold them up in front of the camera when applicable.

Switch List

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The human brain simply does not know how to multi-task, it can only do one job at a time and switch in between. Context switching is however not simple and takes energy and time. Still, many people struggle with understanding the benefits of limiting how much work you have in progress at the same time. 

This is a very simple activity to use when introducing concepts such as sequencing work, limit work in progress (WIP) or even just allowing focus. 

The group will write down lists as quickly as possible, in two different ways. First time with constant context switching and the second time allowing more focus.

Storytelling Cubes

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When you want the group to learn more about each other, get oxytocin flowing to increase trust and empathy.

You use a set of story cubes and let the images inspire your story-telling – they can be used in many different ways. This activity can work for any small to medium-sized group, and even in one-on-one coaching.

Ranking Game

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An icebreaking activity that brings energy and movement into the room. It is also a good way for the group to share their own, and learn about others, experiences and thoughts.

You ask the group to physically rank themselves depending on the questions asked. It can also be done in a circle (also called star formations). Works with any sized group above 4-5, but is particularly good for large groups.

Name & Dance

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Want to speed up the process of everyone in the group learning each other’s names? This is a fun activity for both learning names and getting the energy levels up.

In a circle, you take turns sharing names and your favourite dance move. This is ideal for a group of 6-12 (to make sure it isn’t too easy or too hard to remember all the names).

My Remote Office

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When you are running a virtual workshop or meeting with remote team members, this is a great activity to start off with. Apart from the common benefits of icebreaking activities, it will create a better appreciation of the environments that the other participants are in. It might even explain those distracting, weird background sounds (eg is that a dying cat, a kid or what?).

Ask everyone to share their physical surroundings. Depending on the setup you can use video, photos, or simply describe it if it is a phone meeting.

Whose is it?

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This is a quick icebreaker and simple team building activity you can do in both a virtual or in-person setting. It helps the team get to know each other on a personal level without requiring high-pressure performance.

Ask for input before the session in the form of photos, images, or answers. In the session, you all guess who the item belongs to.

Speed Breaking

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This is a fun and energetic activity used for speeding up the process of getting to know each other – inspired by the speed dating technique.

You can use the cards in multiple ways, but the most common is that pairs are seated facing each other. Depending on the instructions of the card they pick, they perform an action or answer a question. After a set time, the pair rotates to get to know another person.

Whose is it?

This is a quick icebreaker and simple team building activity you can do in both in a virtual or in-person setting.

Ask for input before the session, in the form of photos, images or answers. In the session, you all guess who the item belongs to.