Remote team building. How to strengthen the corporate spirit remotely?

The COVID-19 pandemic has made changes in the measured life of Belarusians. Now workplaces can be located a meter from the bed, and communication with colleagues has moved to chats and video calling services. And if earlier in the summer many companies conducted active team building, now they do not understand what to do with it. It is extremely necessary to strengthen the spirit of the company, but how to do it in the current conditions - KV.by will tell with the support of A1.

So, we have prepared 5 interesting and non-standard ideas on how to strengthen the team spirit without personal meetings and mass events. Go!

Online Quiz

Mind games are not only a good way to get away from work and test yourself, but also team building. It is not at all necessary to organize offline meetings in the spirit of “What? Where? When?". It is enough just to run a joint quiz once a week / month. It is not difficult to organize this - you can use video communication services. For example,  Skype for business-based business conferencing .

At the agreed time, all employees will be online and according to certain rules proposed by the organizer, the teams will jointly answer questions. It is necessary to prepare assignments in advance, you can also choose a specific quiz topic: from literature to movies and TV shows. It all depends only on the organizer's imagination. It is also better to prepare prizes for the winning team, even if only symbolic.

Online "skit"

Who doesn't want to feel like a star? Okay, those who don't want to just take a look. We offer to hold a talent show as a team building. It doesn't matter what your colleagues are able to: sing, dance, or embroider - everyone can share their creativity and become a star of your team computer engineers careers.

To do this, you can organize a chat in the video communication service, plan an event in which everyone can participate. For motivation, it is better to back up the show with prizes, the spirit of competition will not be superfluous. A gift and glory to the winner.

Flash mobs

TikTok is trending now, so if there are a lot of young people in the team, your idea will be gladly accepted. What is the point? Start your flash mob in the company and pass it on to a colleague with a proposal to send it to another employee. It can be a corporate dance or a song, or it can be just something crazy or funny. Again, it all depends on your creativity. 

Online learning

Now let's move on to more serious options for team building. One of them is online training. If earlier you invited a coach to the office, now nothing prevents you from inviting him via video link. This will help you spend time with benefits for your colleagues and for the company.

Conduct surveys on what skills employees want to learn the most - and choose the right coach. Also, the topic of the training may not be related to work. Let's throw in an idea - invite a psychologist who will tell you how to avoid conflicts in the workspace, how to build relationships with colleagues, how to increase your productivity while working remotely.

Book club

And one more serious option, which will be to the liking of book lovers. Previously, book clubs were especially popular, where they chose a book to read and then discussed it all together. Again, video communication makes it possible to organize such an event.

You can choose books both fiction and educational (for example, concerning the activities of the company). Consult with colleagues, you can arrange an online vote, where every two weeks everyone can suggest a book or vote for their favorite. The only thing left is to move to the video chat and discuss. Believe me, you can get to know your colleague through books much faster than in the office.

How to organize all this?

Everything is as simple as shelling pears and much easier than offline. For example, you can connect "Remote Office" from A1 - a package of services for remote control of business processes, as well as effective team communication. A corporate service for remote communications based on Skype for business, included in the "Remote Office" and hosted on the servers of the A1 data center, can become a safe and convenient tool for holding any events (including team building) online. It is convenient, simple and safe. You don't need to be an advanced sysadmin to learn how to handle it.