Speaker 1: Do you wanna 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 your team's morale. And if you stay to the end of this video, I'm gonna share with you how you can get your hands on a master productivity checklist that's gonna help boost your productivity in and out of the office. Hi, if you're new here, welcome. For the best career and project management advice, subscribe to my channel, hit that bell button, a new video's gonna come to you every Wednesday. And in this video, I'm gonna give you four virtual team bonding activities that help break up the monotony of remote business meetings. Not only that, they actually give some connectivity for your teams, 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 spread it out over time, over multiple meetings. It's really gonna be up to you. That is the cool thing with all these activities. So on that note, let's do the first one. Virtual team building activity number one, Cutie Pie. All right, 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, hear that person. Or if you're not shouting things out, you can even put it in the little messenger portion of all virtual meetings, those little chat rooms. So what a fun way to start it off. And again, what 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 wanna bring about creativity in 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, and it's a fictional story, so I'm gonna 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 and it's in sequential order. But the key is this, 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 wanna 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 wanna 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's 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 kick off 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, one lie. Okay, 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, 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 interject this throughout your meeting, or you can do it in the beginning of your meeting, or you could space it throughout multiple meetings. But what a great and fun way to get to know your team members a little bit better. Okay, now that you know how to have some fun with your virtual team meetings by doing these team building activities, guess what? I want you to go to the link below and grab my master productivity hack checklist and how you can knock productivity out of the park. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel, like this video, and please share it with all the people that you know. The more people that see this, the better off it is for us to have really great team bonding going on in productivity, personally and professionally. So on that note, let me 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.