Virtual Team Building

More and more, companies are relying on virtual teams or geographically dispersed teams to serve global customers. Schools and classes are online and remote learning is the norm. Building teams, breaking down barriers, and getting to know each other via Zoom, Hangouts, Webex, or Skype is challenging! Team building can be even more challenging when you try to do it virtually across various times zones, geographic locations and considering diverse cultural boundaries.

We have a collection of Icebreakers for Online Team Building, and are actively seeking more. Do you have ice breakers or team building activities that have worked for you in the past? Please add them here!

Articles on Virtual Team Building:

• A list of 38 Virtual Team Building Activities for Conference Calls (2020)
• The 35 Best Virtual Team Building Activities in the World (Ranked) (2020)
• 28 Online Team Building Games for Remote Employees (2020)
• 101 Virtual Team Building Activities for Remote Teams in 2021 (2021)
• [http://managementhelp.org/blogs/communications/2011/10/24/can-you-see-me-now-how-to-speak-when-your-audience-is-remote/ Can you see me now?

How to Speak When Your Audience Is Remote]

• Starting up a Virtual Team
• Virtual team building: the team operating agreement
• Leading Virtually
• Working in Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Geography? (Chris Kimble, University of York)
• Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice (Chris Kimble, Barlow Alexis, and Feng Li)
• Virtual Teams (Robert Davison, ISWORLD)
• Team-building key for virtual workplace Business Edge (2006)
• Dr Alister Jury's research into Leadership Effectiveness within Virtual Teams (University of Queensland)
• Virtual Team Building, Does it Work? (2009)
• Building & Managing Virtual Teams (2009)

Companies that support virtual team building:

• Virtual Team Building by teambuilding.com
• tiny campfire 🔥
• Tea vs Coffee
• War of the Wizards
• The Leaders Institute Virtual Team Building
• Team-Building.org Virtual Team Building
• Virtual Team Builders

Workshops

• Activities, Games, and Energizers for Synchronous Online Training - Jane Bozarth and Kassy LaBorie, Synchronous Learning Experts InSync Training LLC