Two Truths and a Lie, Done Properly
The icebreaker everyone has done, with the three fixes that make it work.
OnboardingCross-team networkingPure fun
Virtual team building
Activities built for a video call, not squeezed into one
Nothing here asks a remote team to mime, stand up on camera or wait twenty minutes for a turn. Every run sheet assumes a grid of faces, a chat box and at least one person on a phone in a car park.
23 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
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
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
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