Touch Blue
Touch Blue is a classic energiser that is quick and easy fun for remote teams too! Challenge participants to find objects on their desk that match the attributes you select and have fun doing so!
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Virtual scavenger hunt
A fun team-building energiser that encourages groups to recreate the scavenger hunt experience in a fully remote environment!
5 perchè
attività da facilitare in remoto o presenza per ricercare la causa "profonda" di un problema ed elaborare possibili soluzioni
No cutting corners (just count them)
A simple exercise to get people to look around and share a laughter after some funny moments - suitable for remote teams as a quick energiser.
Quick Reviews in 5 minutes
Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 5 minutes.
Circle, Square, Triangle
At the end of a workshop, it's important to reflect on the things you've learnt, the things you still need to work on and how the things you've learnt in the workshop will help you improve. This activity encourages post-session reflection, and is suitable to be run remotely.
Map Participation Styles
In most meetings, 20% of participants do 80% of the talking. Unfortunately, remote meetings amplify this lousy behavior.
Some people like to talk to think, while others need to think before they talk. Some people are shy and quiet, while others are more vocal and outspoken.
This activity helps assess participation style and adjust behaviors.
The team Is - Is not - Does - Does not
The Team Is – Is Not – Does – Does Not helps define a team. Sometimes, it’s easier to describe something by saying what this thing is not or does not do.
A snapshot of my life
This exercise is great for building empathy amongst team members, and giving each participant a deeper understanding of their colleagues’ backgrounds (particularly great for international or remote teams). It'll also set a casual atmosphere for the workshop ahead.
Sesión sobre el codesarrollo
El codesarrollo es una metodología de la inteligencia colectiva. Se trata de un enfoque de desarrollo para profesionales en el que los participantes aprenden unos de otros y consolidan sus prácticas. Las sesiones de tormenta de ideas llevadas a cabo, a título individual y en grupo, se apoyan en un ejercicio estructurado de consultas sobre cuestiones vividas por los miembros del grupo.
Robot
Since you participants are not allowed to talk during the activity they need to get used to another "language" that could help them understand each other.
Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ)
It doesn’t matter where you work and what your job role is, if you work with other people together as a team, you will always encounter the same challenges:
- Unclear goals and miscommunication that cause busy work and overtime
- Unstructured meetings that leave attendants tired, confused and without clear outcomes.
- Frustration builds up because internal challenges to productivity are not addressed
- Sudden changes in priorities lead to a loss of focus and momentum
- Muddled compromise takes the place of clear decision- making, leaving everybody to come up with their own interpretation.
- In short, a lack of structure leads to a waste of time and effort, projects that drag on for too long and frustrated, burnt out teams.
Replace all open discussion or brainstorming with a structured process that leads to more ideas, clearer decisions and better outcomes.
When a good process provides guardrails and a clear path to follow, it becomes easier to come up with ideas, make decisions and solve problems.
This is why AJ&Smart created Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ). It’s a simple and short, but powerful group exercise that can be run either in-person, in the same room, or remotely with distributed teams.