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40 team-building exercise ideas: activities for today’s product teams
We all need our spirits lifted a bit.
In all my 20+ years working professionally, nothing has made more of an impact, pulled me out of workplace fatigue, or made me look forward to Mondays more than working with a team of people I can call friends.
It’s a joy to work on a product team where you can ship amazing experiences to the world and do it alongside friends and comrades. Friendships are built around laughter, competition, failures, wins, and working in an environment where you feel safe and accepted.
According to research done at MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory:
“Conversations outside of formal meetings are the most important factor that contributes to team success.”
Team building is the means by which these friendships are forged, vulnerability is allowed, and cohesive teams emerge. Even in the midst of a pandemic, we all need to laugh and have our spirits raised. As you’ll read, it’s not hard to implement one or two of these activities within your team.
Here are 40+ ways you can begin fostering a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and camaraderie in your teams.
