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Connect and Collaborate with Virtual Holiday Games on Zoom
Hello Reader,
In all my years of working with virtual and distributed teams, the common confusion is: what is ‘real’ work?
Some people think that taking the time to let team members connect and deepen their relationships is a distraction from ‘getting things done.’
But the relationships forged in play are precisely what give us the resilience needed to solve hard problems.
When I led the opening session of the Australasia Change Days Conference recently, I asked the attendees, “What is the hardest thing about keeping people's attention during virtual meetings?”
Here are some of their answers:
- Stopping people from looking at other applications or screens - doing their ‘real’ work!
- the digital distractions they have (emails / phones)
- Interactivity
- It being more interesting than all the other things they can see at the same moment.
- Competing with all the other distractions around them including email, people chatting with them off screen,
- The flat screen- not being in the room with them
- Keeping them engaged enough to ignore any emails etc coming in
- Continued engagement through activities to make them think/ do
- Keeping their cameras on, engagement.
- keeping them engaged in the present moment so they are not easily distracted
- Keeping them engaged in every moment of the meeting
These are common problems, I hear about them all the time. During my interactive workshop, Gamify Your Work, I provided a variety of tools and techniques that remote and distributed teams could use to get more done in good cheer.
Here's a simple Zoom game: everybody turn into a pirate!
The feedback from this session included:
- Great tips and tools for improving online facilitation - excellent
- Will definitely use icebreakers and games in my next workshops
- Absolutely brilliant session, engaging interactive and educational
- Engagement is everything
- Play is the antidote to zoom fatigue
- This was brilliant
- Thanks Caelan, I really enjoyed that.
- Thank you Caelan for an interesting and engaging session!
If you’d like to gamify a holiday party, I’d be happy to lead some fun games for your team on Zoom.
Do you need a fun host for a virtual team gathering?
Reply to this email, and let's talk.
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