Two Truths and a Lie, Done Properly
The icebreaker everyone has done, with the three fixes that make it work.
OnboardingCross-team networkingPure fun
Remote team rituals
Small things, repeated weekly
Distributed teams are not short of events. They are short of texture between events. These are designed to repeat without going stale.
12 activities
Problem Swap
Bring a problem you are stuck on. Leave with someone else's three ideas.
Problem solvingCollaborationTrust & safety
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
Walk and Talk
Pair up, go outside, come back in forty minutes. The simplest thing on this site.
WellbeingCross-team networkingTrust & 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
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