Two Truths and a Lie, Done Properly
The icebreaker everyone has done, with the three fixes that make it work.
OnboardingCross-team networkingPure fun
No budget needed
Nothing to buy, nothing to book
Everything on this list runs with a room, a call, or paper you already have. Useful when the team building line item is the first thing cut.
26 activities
The Map of Who Knows What
Build the team's expertise map on a wall in forty minutes. It outlives the session.
OnboardingCross-team networkingCollaboration
The Failure Résumé
Everyone presents the job they did not get. Trust goes up, permanently.
Trust & safetyLeadership practiceCommunication
The Swap Shop
Half an hour of someone else's job, taught by the person who does it.
Cross-team networkingCollaborationOnboarding
Escape the Process
An escape room where the puzzles are your own onboarding documents.
OnboardingCollaborationProblem solving
The Silent Line-Up
Five minutes, no talking, and a surprisingly good conversation afterwards.
CommunicationPure funInclusion
Problem Swap
Bring a problem you are stuck on. Leave with someone else's three ideas.
Problem solvingCollaborationTrust & safety
The User Safari
Everyone in the company spends two hours being a customer. Including the people who never do.
CollaborationProblem solvingCross-team networking
Five Minutes on Anything
Short talks on a subject with no connection to work whatsoever.
Cross-team networkingPure funRecognition
Shout-Out Roulette
Everyone gets a name. Everyone says something specific and true about that person.
RecognitionTrust & safetyInclusion
The Object on Your Desk
Three minutes, one object within arm's reach, no preparation.
Cross-team networkingTrust & safetyPure fun
The Pitch Pit
Teams invent and pitch a deliberately terrible product. The judging is the fun part.
Creative thinkingCollaborationPure fun
The Pre-Mortem
It is a year from now and the project failed. Write the story of how.
Problem solvingTrust & safetyCommunication
Skills Donation Day
A day of your team's actual professional skills, given to organisations that cannot buy them.
CollaborationRecognitionWellbeing
Walk and Talk
Pair up, go outside, come back in forty minutes. The simplest thing on this site.
WellbeingCross-team networkingTrust & safety
The Values Auction
Teams bid for the things they say they care about, with a budget that does not cover them.
Leadership practiceCommunicationTrust & safety
The Story Spine
Eight sentence-starters, one team, one story that nobody planned.
Creative thinkingCommunicationCollaboration
The Thing I Learned Exchange
A gift exchange where the gift is something you figured out this year.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCross-team networking
House Trivia
A quiz where one round is about the company and the rest definitely is not.
Pure funCross-team networkingOnboarding
Rose, Bud, Thorn
Three words, one round, five minutes. The highest-value-per-minute thing on this site.
CommunicationTrust & safetyWellbeing
Photo Scavenger Hunt
A list of things to photograph, a time limit, and a city, a building or a house.
CollaborationCreative thinkingPure fun
The Paper Tower
Eighteen minutes, twenty sheets of paper, and a lesson about prototyping that lands every time.
CollaborationProblem solvingCreative thinking
Speed Networking Roulette
Six conversations, four minutes each, with people you would never otherwise meet.
Cross-team networkingOnboardingCommunication
The Hour You Get Back
Find the recurring thing that wastes everyone's time, and actually kill it.
WellbeingProblem solvingTrust & safety
The Newcomer Interview
The new starter interviews the team, on stage, with questions nobody vetted.
OnboardingInclusionCommunication
The Year Wall
Build a timeline of the year on a wall, then walk it together.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCommunication