6 Fun activities to do with your team (remote and in person)

Stay creative when organizing team activities. We are returning to the our work environment in person more and more, but some remote teams will continue to work online. Perhaps your team is already spread around different cities or countries, whatever your work team situation is we want to inspire you to connect with your team, whether that is online or offline

Here are 6 team-building activities and ways to reconnect with your team.

1. Organize a (sports) competition

Bring out the competitive side of your team members and organize a competition with mini-games, from relay races to potato (or cocoa) sack races, bobbing for apples, or?donuts on a string race. You can mix active games with brain games so that all members of your team feel valued and can bring out their talents. Add a special theme to the day to get everybody in the right spirit!

2. Take a food tour

Look at your city through different eyes and take a food tour together with your team. Learn about the specialties of the area and learn how it connects with the history of the city.?Find a food tour in your city?or create your own.

You could even divide your team so that each group designs part of the experience and you guys become the guides! Food acts as a hook to help people engage, creates a more informal environment, and helps create connections that ease the conversations. Give your colleagues a chance to get to know you and for you to know them!

3. Give back to the community

There are plenty of local organizations that might need a helping hand to get some practical tasks done. You and your team can help out and give back to the community; create a win-win situation! How about helping your local elderly home decorate their house for Easter, go fishing for trash in your local canal or?beach, do a beach clean-up, or help out in a local farm to get their garden ready for spring. There are plenty of organizations that offer activities that need a one-off helping hand. Working together with your team on a tangible goal connects you outside your regular work environment while giving back.

4. Do a chocolate tasting!

If you are a remote team you already know the drill about meeting with your colleagues online, how about sprucing it up a bit??Do an?online chocolate tasting.

We organize fun and interactive chocolate tastings where you are taken on an online adventure learning everything about how cocoa grows and how it is turned into delicious chocolate with ethically sourced cacao and chocolate bars that are part of our platform. You can also join an online tasting guided by a chocolate maker!

5. Do a Bob Ross workshop

Bob Ross has inspired generations to get their creative juices flowing. Send an art-kit to all your team members and play a?Bob Ross video?at the same time. Connect with your team while you follow his guidance. Perhaps you learn hidden talents within the team, or you end up with new artwork to hang up in the office. A glass of wine to accompany the painting can also help the creativity flow!

6. Do an online mystery dinner

Take the corporate dinner to the next level and add a game element; send a dinner box to your team, including the context of the game. All characters come together over (an online) dinner and the game starts! Whoever solves the mystery gets the grand prize, but you can also give out prizes for best dressed, who played the best role or who is the best detective in your team. Get to know a new side of your team! Get ideas for online mystery dinners?here.

Tips to create a great team-building activity:

• Do something that works well for everybody, make sure the activity is inclusive for all team members.
• Include interaction so that you learn new things about your team, everyone wants to be heard!
• Here are some great tips to mediate any gathering to make sure everyone is included by?Priya Parker
• Take the work element out so that your team can learn new things about each other, connections are everything.?
• We are a team of food-lovers, so we would always recommend adding food since it can bring so many people together. Food connects people.