Five-minute virtual team building activities like ice breakers help your team members end the awkwardness that most of us feel while communicating with someone for the first time. Ask questions like: – What were your favorite shows growing up? – What is your favorite movie genre? – What do you love to eat for lunch?
This five-minute virtual team building activity might seem a little unconventional, and it is. The idea of a five-minute virtual dance party may excite some while making others anxious. But that’s why you must give it a try! This team building activity will undoubtedly lighten the mood, improve office wellbeing, and it’s a great way to bond with teammates.
Employees are asked to say three things about themselves in this virtual team building activity. Two of them are true, and one of them is a lie. This is an ultimate stress buster. The teammates take turns to state one lie and two truths, while others guess which one is a false statement. It’s a quick, fun-filled team bonding session that won’t take more than five minutes.
Ask teammates to share memes in the Slack channel (or any other preferred communication platform) representing certain events in the company or the company itself! Allow them to discuss the memes for not more than five minutes. You can even ask the rest of your company to vote for ‘meme of the week’ and make the session more engaging.
If you have a team of competitive individuals, then this is a perfect virtual team building activity for them. Virtual trivia quizzes are quick, entertaining, and informative. If possible, offer some form of reward to whoever wins the quiz. There are two ways to play virtual trivia quizzes. Employees can either participate individually or form groups. If you have a large organization, the latter is recommended.
Try this in your next meeting – ask teammates to share something they are enjoying, happy about, or proud of lately. It can be tangible items like a new mechanical keyboard, a new dress they bought, or a dish they made. The idea is to celebrate achievements, however small, with teammates. It gives remote employees an incredible chance to learn about their colleagues outside of work.
In this activity, ask employees to share one picture daily of their surroundings or themselves! The pictures can be of their pets, plants, workstations, a snowy morning, brand new shoes – anything related to their lives. It allows remote coworkers to destress, connect, and talk about something that’s not directly related to their work, even if it’s just for five minutes. This activity encourages casual, friendly interaction similar to working in an office.
During this five-minute team activity, allow employees to tell an embarrassing story about themselves. But there’s a twist! Instead of each coworker telling their story, ask them to write it down and give them two minutes to do so. The host (likely a manager) will then read each story out loud, allowing everyone to take a vote on who they think wrote the story. After everyone votes, you will then reveal the answers!
You can play the object memory game in many ways. One way to do this is to paste 30 stickers of different objects on a whiteboard (or on a PowerPoint) and allow teammates to memorize them. Give them 30 seconds to do so. Now, ask them to list as many objects as they saw. The one who recalls the most items wins the game!