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
Offsites & retreats
Longer blocks for a day away
Activities with enough substance to anchor a morning or an afternoon, and debriefs that connect back to the work you came to talk about.
19 activities
The Blind Build
One person can see the model. One person can touch the bricks. Nobody enjoys the middle.
CommunicationCollaborationProblem solving
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
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
Build a Bike, Give It Away
Teams build children's bicycles. At the end, the children come in.
CollaborationCommunicationWellbeing
The User Safari
Everyone in the company spends two hours being a customer. Including the people who never do.
CollaborationProblem solvingCross-team networking
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
Office Olympics
Eight silly events, one scoreboard, ninety minutes, no athletic ability required.
Pure funCollaborationCross-team networking
The Cook-Off
Mystery ingredients, a time limit, and a kitchen or a hotel function room.
CollaborationCreative thinkingCommunication
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
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
The Hour You Get Back
Find the recurring thing that wastes everyone's time, and actually kill it.
WellbeingProblem solvingTrust & safety
The Year Wall
Build a timeline of the year on a wall, then walk it together.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCommunication