29/01/2021
You're on your second video call and yet it's just only half of your schedule today. And the sad part is that the format of the meeting is the same as the last one.
Now you can turn your virtual meetings more interesting by doing fun activities which can establish bonding among your participants and help them to become more productive.
You can try these five activities to make remote meetings more engaging:
1. Icebreakers
One way to get your team engaged in meetings is to start things off with a fun icebreaker question or activity. It'll allow everyone to feel included early in the session. Getting everyone engaged first thing can lead to continued engagement throughout the meeting.
2. Show and Tell
Show and tell lets folks show off personally or culturally significant things. It's an activity that usually works best at the end of meetings. What colleagues select can range from living spaces to prized possessions or weird finds. It provides a way of understanding your colleagues better, as humans independent of work, which has been shown to improve psychological safety.
3. Low-fi Games
These are pretty simple question-based games with yes or no and multiple choice answers. Think summer camp or offsite activities to get things going.
4. Online Games
Online games have the advantage of being designed for remote play. They have features and objectives that help people engage with one another and tend to be friendlier to large teams.
5. Out of band Games
Turn-based or asynchronous games are great for playing on different schedules. You can reveal the results of the game in the meeting. Games like providing a photo challenge, like taking a portrait or a misplaced object, or a cooking challenge where you have to use a challenging ingredient, as fun ways to carry over the excitement from one meeting to the next. This system won't work for every meeting format, but see if you can work it into one of your all-hands or team updates.
Source:
https://www.range.co/blog/activities-to-make-remote-meetings-more-engaging
