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Introduce yourself to the others WITHOUT mentioning your work/job, your tittle, your profession or your degrees/education.

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Let's acknowledge each other's skills! Who would you choose in your team for the following tasks and why:
1) Starting and international office from zero?
2) Applying for a multi-million multinational development project in higher education?
3) Contracting a management team for a new university?
4) Building a university with absolutely the best comprehensive digital learning and online service experience?
Be creative! Choose as many people as you like - from the EAIE volontary Leadership! (Maybe a wild card from the Office staff!!!)

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Tell your pair one or two things that you are really good at. Then tell your partner how you can demonstrate that. (The idea here is to focus on your STRENGHTS instead of your weaknesses or "areas of development". People usually find this empowering.)

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More of a longer team building exercise: book your own guide for an online wine and cheese tasting or a bike ride through Paris

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Come laugh and hangout with your remote team in Virtual Paris!​

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Treat your staff, friends, or family to a truly unique virtual teambuilding activity set in the stunning city of lights! Find Out More.

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Retelling a stressful situation in a fun way

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Retelling a stressful situation in a fun way

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The idea comes from Hotel Gatherly premium member Britta's clown workshop 😁
Divide everyone in groups of 2 and give them 2 minutes in a breakout room to tell each other about a recent stressful event in their private or work life.
Then ask them in the bigger group how they experienced this situation.
Send them in the breakout rooms again and have them re-tell the exact same story to their partner with a slight twist: they have to completely omit the letter 's':
a) either by using words that do not contain this letter at all
b) or by faking a lisp or making some other weird sound whenever the letter 's' comes up in a word.

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Before your next meeting, ask every teammate to create/draw an image or find a picture they can use to tell a unique story or fact about their lives and have them send it to you. During the meeting, have them figure out together which picture belongs to which person. When a correct guess is made, that person needs to share their story with the group. Do this over video conference with an app that allows screen sharing like Google Meet or Zoom, so the speaker can include video for the storytelling and everyone can connect the name, face and story.

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Ask each person to write a newspaper or magazine headline for the company in 10 years. Give everyone time to work independently and have time for sharing with the larger group.

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Put the team into breakout rooms and give them all 5 minutes to find an object for every letter of the alphabet (a - apple, b - book, etc.). One person on each team will write the objects down. The team will have to communicate well to prevent overlap and get creative on some of the letters.

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Ask your colleagues to go to their phones, and dig out the last photo that they took. Ask them to either post it to a Padlet or simply show it to the camera. Then, ask them to share a story behind the picture.

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Great to get your colleagues out of their chairs: Give your teammates a little task such as: “You have 25 seconds to fetch something yellow,” or “Get the weirdest thing in your apartment, then bring it back to show us”.

You can even take it a little further and play a full-scale virtual scavenger hunt (e. g. 20 tasks in 5 minutes):

Take a picture of a view from your window and post it to a padlet

Find something smaller than your fingernail

Bring the softest thing you own

Change your Zoom background to your favorite movie set

Bring an item that’s older than you are

And on a hunt you go.

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This is a great virtual icebreaker because it requires little preparation. At the start of your meeting, ask each employee to grab any item on their desk, but don’t explain why. If they ask, let them know they will find out soon.

Once each employee has an item in their hand, explain that they are now going to try to sell it to the other members. They can set the price and have one minute to deliver a sales pitch and one minute to answer questions.

After all pitches are made, employees will be allowed to use a poll to select one item they would “buy.”

The person who gets the most employees to purchase their product wins.

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This would normally be an in-person experience: Fill a bowl with M&Ms and pass around the group. Ask each person to take an M&M. Once the bowl of M&Ms has been passed around, explain the colours of the M&Ms mean certain things, such as:

Red: Favorite superhero

Orange: Favorite outdoor activity

Blue: Favorite food

Green: Favorite vacation spot

Brown: Favorite TV show

Yellow: Why you absolutely love your agency/organization/company

Then circle around the table and ask your team to give answers for the M&Ms they scooped out of the bowl. In an online setting, the players should choose from a set of pictures that each mean a certain thing.

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Free multiplayer drawing and guessing game

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1. What is your funniest memory with your best friend?

2. What is the craziest dare you have ever taken?

3. What were your teenage anthems?

4. If you could be eating any food in the world right now, what would it be?

5. If you were a store at the mall, which would you be?

6. What is your worst date story?

7. Which of your past Halloween costumes is your favorite?

8. Do you have any guilty pleasure shows that you watch?

9. Tell the team a knock-knock joke.

10. What is the strangest item near you?

11. What commercial jingles or theme songs get stuck in your head?

12. If you could choose your own nickname, what would it be and why?

13. If you had a ridiculous amount of money, what unnecessary thing or experience would you indulge in?

14. If you could eliminate one food from the world, what would it be?

15. Share a good or bad impression!

16. If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would the song be and why?

17. If you were sponsored by a brand, which one would you want it to be?

18. What topic do you know a lot of random trivia about?

19. If your life became an action movie, which fictional character would you want to be?

20. What is a common thing that you have never done? Fly, change a tire, etc.

21. If you could live in any sitcom universe, which would it be?

22. What is the scariest thing you have done for fun?

23. If you had to wear a shirt with one word on it for an entire year, which word would you choose?

24. If you were in the wrestling ring, who would be your opponent?

25. How did your parents embarrass you as a kid?

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The classic card game reimagined for an online context

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Welcome, detective.

How to play: rules and scoring

Game background:

You're an FBI detective.

Problem: someone in your department is an enemy spy.

Your full department has been brought in. You must question each other to discover the spy.

What you need to play:

4-12 people.

All in same room or same Zoom call

Each has their own phone, computer, or tablet.

Game objectives:

The spy: try to guess the round's location. Infer from others' questions and answers.

Other players: figure out who the spy is.

Gameplay flow:

Round length: 6-10 minutes. Shorter for smaller groups, longer for larger.

The location: round starts, each player is given a location card. The location is the same for all players (e.g., the bank) except for one player, who is randomly given the "spy" card. The spy does not know the round's location.

Questioning: the game leader (person who started the game) begins by questioning another player about the location.Example: ("is this a place where children are welcome?").

Answering: the questioned player must answer. No follow up questions allowed. After they answer, it's then their turn to ask someone else a question. This continues until round is over.

No retaliation questions: if someone asked you a question for their turn, you cannot then immediately ask them a question back for your turn. You must choose someone else.

Location card:

Players guessing the spy:

Putting up for vote: at any time, a player can try to indict a suspected spy by putting that suspect up for vote. They must say "I'd like to put (player x) up for vote." Then go one by one clockwise around the circle, and each player much cast their vote if they're in agreement to indict.

Vote must be unanimous to indict: the vote must be unanimous to indict the suspect: if any player votes no, the round continues as it was. Each person can only put a suspect up for vote once per round. Use it wisely!

Spy is indicted: if a player is indicted, they must reveal whether or not they are the spy and the round ends.

Spy guessing the location:

Spy guesses: at any time, the spy can reveal that they are the spy and make a guess at what the location is. The round immediately ends.

Round ends when:

Indictment: group successfully indicts a player after votingOR

Spy guesses: spy stops the round to make a guess about the locationOR

No time left: clock runs out

Scoring and who wins:

Spy Victory

The spy earns 2 points if no one is successfully indicted of being the spy

The spy earns 4 points if a non-spy player is successfully indicted of being a spy

The spy earns 4 points if the spy stops the game and successfully guesses the location

Non-Spy Victory

Each non-spy player earns 1 point

The player who initiated the successful indictment of the spy earns 2 points instead

Running total:
You can play for as many rounds as you'd like. Whoever has the most points at the end of the target number of rounds is the overall game winner.

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Play the famous game of questioning and bluffing, all on on your phone!

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If you haven’t done Mad Libs before, it’s a fill-in-the blank story that can lead to a pretty hilarious final product. Mad Libs is great for any size group because your employees will be partnering up.
Before your meeting, find the short story, song lyrics, news article etc. you want to use (even your own mission statement). Partner up your teammates and assign one as the reader (who gets the text with blanks and only the word category the blank should be behind it in brackets) and one as the writer (who needs to come up with words - don't tell them what the story is about for even more fun). In breakout groups, the reader will ask the writer for a word that's an adjective, noun, or adverb, depending on what the type of blank space is. When each team is finished filling out their story, have them return to the main group and share their creation.

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Each player needs a device/phone that answers questions for you (Alexa/Siri/Google). Similar to taboo, each player has to try and make their device say a certain word without actually saying that word. When you lack motivation to come up with words for various games, use this free word generator. Here's an example from the Tonight Show:

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The Tonight Show: At Home Edition (Tina Fey, José Andrés)

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Divide up the group and tell them that aliens have landed. Each team has to create 5 simple drawings that best describe and communicate your company’s products and culture so the aliens will understand and not abduct you. Have them upload them to a shared document/folder/padlet. Take a few minutes and look at all the images and talk through common themes.

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This fun game is great for introducing new colleagues or getting to know each other better. Collect three statements about each of your colleagues in advance – two of them should be true facts and one should be a lie. Tell your colleagues to provide a lie that’s not so obvious so as to make it harder for others to guess. Put all of the collected statements into a presentation and make it a live poll during your event.

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Get to know your colleagues a little better, and take a sneak-peek into their home work stations. This icebreaker is a mixture of ‘Guess who?’ and a house tour.

Collect pictures from your colleagues of their desks at home, add them to a presentation (also giving several other options) and make it a live poll: “Can you guess whose desk this is?”

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This game is normally also used when people actually are in the same places and requires minimal effort and minimal funds. To play, pass a roll of toilet paper around and have everyone rip off how much they would usually use. Everyone will probably think you’re crazy. When the toilet paper makes it all the way around the circle, have everyone count their squares. The number of squares each person took is the number of fun facts they have to reveal about themselves.
In an online setting, simply share a poll where each person has to indicate the number of squares.

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Put your improvisation skills to the test. Since actual trips are difficult to arrange this year, at least you could make up a cool story of how it would have gone.

Create a slideshow of random travel pictures, start a story and then call on one of our teammates to follow up on what the previous person said, based on what picture is currently up.

Take turns in telling crazy things you did during your imaginary trip and hold on for dear life because it's gonna be one hell of a ride

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Turn work into play. Games that make time spent with colleagues fun mean more time spent growing deeper bonds.

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Here are a few example questions that serve really well for getting to know your colleagues better:

What’s the most useless thing you have in your home?

What would your superpower be if you had one?

What one thing should everybody stop doing right now?

What’s one song or artist that you’re embarrassed to admit you like?