An example could be, "The best experiences can happen randomly" for the time you met your favourite actor at a restaurant. It's a creative way to simplify your best experiences

One person leads the group of people into following their movements, but only if they preface the movement with, "Simon says". As the movements become faster, people forget to follow along only if they hear that phrase and become "out". The last one standing is the winner. You'll break down barriers team members, and get you more comfortable to talk with each other.

You can even modify this to be how they feel the sprint went or project, etc.

Now there are three variations on how to facilitate this one virtually.

The first is if you have a virtual whiteboard tool like Miro available or even office 365 PowerPoint where you can all edit at the same time. Use it to put an image of the world in the centre and get each person to put their name on the part of the world that they would rather be — it can be great fun to visualise!

The team doing it in Miro

Another option is to have someone compile the list of places into Google Maps using the ‘Saved Places’ feature — here’s a comprehensive how-to guide for using the feature.

This is super fun and one of my favourite remote icebreakers. Each person takes turns to give everyone a quick tour of their immediate surroundings — i.e. walk everyone through the room you are in, what’s on your desk, etc.

This is a fun way to get to know each other a bit deeper and to feel more physically connected even though you’re remote.

Being able to see each other’s space a bit more before starting is a great way to feel more connected and like you are sitting in the room with them, even though you may be halfway across the world form one another.

Set a time limit if you need to — 60 seconds per person — pro-tip if you are doing this with a large group a timer and time limit is a must to keep things short and sharp.

Another variation, if you have everyone working from home, is to find 10 items that everyone has in their immediate area — we all sitting on a chair, we all have a notepad, etc