The Swap Shop
Half an hour of someone else's job, taught by the person who does it.
Cross-team networkingCollaborationOnboarding
Outcome
Activities for recognition
Making good work visible to people other than the manager.
7 activities
Build a Bike, Give It Away
Teams build children's bicycles. At the end, the children come in.
CollaborationCommunicationWellbeing
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
Skills Donation Day
A day of your team's actual professional skills, given to organisations that cannot buy them.
CollaborationRecognitionWellbeing
The Thing I Learned Exchange
A gift exchange where the gift is something you figured out this year.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCross-team networking
The Year Wall
Build a timeline of the year on a wall, then walk it together.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCommunication