An example can look like this:
- Before the online team building
In a telephone briefing, we agree on a team building goal and recommend an appropriate team event based on this for the active part.
- During the online team building
o All colleagues meet in the meeting software
o The BITOU presenter greets everyone and introduces the story
o Active part: the team solves tasks together
o Upon request: presented reflection
- After the online team building
o You will receive a reminder from us so that you can transfer what you have leant to your everyday working life. Upon request, we can also carry out individual coaching.
An online team event should be no longer than 120 minutes – any more is tiring. However, it is well possible through the online variant for the team building intervention to take place in multiple units over a longer period of time. An example of this is our communication team event »Mission to Mars« : it consists of four units that can be played in the duration of a week. The longer period of time increases the level of reflection and helps teams to transfer the knowledge to their everyday lives.
Online team building, specifically for 2021
Pick up on emotions and keep the us-feeling: especially in times of crisis, it is particularly important to work on the team. This has been confirmed by many of our customers with whom we spoke to on the phone at the beginning of the first lockdown in February 2020. We also discovered working virtually ourselves during this time and created new structures for us as a team. We consciously approached this in the same way, as we do as team trainers with our customers.
This is what online team building achieves during a crisis
- Picks up on emotions
- Gets the us-feeling back
- Defines consistent tools for remote work
- Grows efficiency
- Plans the future: how will we continue to work?
Conclusion: not a stopgap, but a sensible expansion – specifically when teams are growing into a new way of working!
To suddenly have to manage everything from home office is the beginning of new work. As the framework for team work, team building and team development changed in summer 2020, we needed quick and proactive solutions. But online team building is not just simply an alternative to bridge the gap, it brought along completely new impulses and thoughts.
Have a look: in our event finder you will find around 20 new virtual team events and six hybrid team events. And there are always new ones being added
