Individuals can interact and form bonds from the comfort of their own homes in these online team-building activities. An engaging and entertaining host will provide a smooth and pleasant experience for everyone as they learn new and interesting facts about their coworkers.
There are several benefits to booking with CourseHorse including not having to pay booking fees, being able to change your group size after booking, and having an event provider who will answer all your questions. Your group will be in good hands with the professional and expert instructors CourseHorse uses to facilitate and teach their online workshops and classes. Additionally, while Zoom is the default video conferencing platform, CourseHorse will accommodate others such as Webex, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meets.
Benefits of Icebreakers for Virtual Teams
Icebreaker activities for virtual teams are perfect for making your team feel connected and facilitating relationships between coworkers who do not get to interact on a daily basis. This can be particularly helpful for virtual jobs where individuals may feel disconnected from their coworkers due to not being in a physical office. Moreover, even if you do work in person, an office setting is not always ideal for getting to know your coworkers on a more friendly level. With CourseHorse's virtual icebreakers, your team will get to know each other in a fun, relaxing atmosphere, helping to increase effective communication and collaboration at your business or organization.
Top Icebreakers for Virtual Teams
Virtual Icebreaker: Get to Know Your Teammates
CourseHorse's Virtual Icebreaker: Get to Know Your Teammates is a fast-paced, interactive workshop for groups of up to 80 people. In this one-hour team-building activity, your group will have fun learning new and interesting things about each other. An engaging host will guide your group as they split up into smaller teams of 2-3 people who will interview each other in breakout rooms. Participants will be provided with a list of questions they can ask to gather interesting information about their team members. Eventually, everyone will come back to the larger group to share the fun facts and stories they learned about each other. The goal of this activity is to help people who have either worked together for years or are new to the company get to know each other a little better and facilitate communication.
Virtual Getting to Know Your Teammates (30 minutes)
For a fast-paced and interactive virtual icebreaker, CourseHorse offers the 30-minute workshop Virtual Getting to Know Your Teammates. An engaging facilitator will guide your group as they learn interesting facts about one another in a combination of lightning rounds and sharing with the entire group. Your group will have plenty of interaction as they spend half the time in mini-teams and the other half with the large group. There are four different 30-minute events in CourseHorse's Getting to Know Your Teammates series with themes that include an introduction round, sharing your passions, viewing differences as strengths, and collaborating together.
Virtual Get to Know Your Teammates 4-Part Series
If your team wants to get to know each other better in a longer series of events, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Get to Know Your Teammates 4Part Series for groups of up to 80 people. This workshop consists of four one-hour events with varying themes that include getting to know your teammates, discovering your shared passions, framing your differences as strengths, and collaborating together. Each one-hour event consists of multiple lightning rounds in which participants will follow prompts that help them gather fun and interesting facts about each other. After three minutes with your small group, your host will rotate participants into different breakout rooms, giving everyone the chance to interact. After several rounds, you will join the main room to share what you learned about each other. Whether you've worked together for years or are new to the company, you will gain a lot of fun and unique knowledge about one another in this virtual icebreaker.
Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop
If your team wants to have fun while learning how to collaborate better and make quick decisions, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop for groups of up to 40 people. In this one-hour workshop, your group will learn improv techniques that will help them get to know each other and work better as a team. Your group will practice skills such as listening, collaboration, problem-solving, improved communication, and finding humor in things. An engaging host will guide your team as they learn not to take things too seriously in a series of fun low-pressure games and exercises. Rest assured, everyone has their own unique humor and you don't need to be funny to improv; funniness will happen naturally through listening and going with the flow.
Virtual Corporate Improv Workshop
CourseHorse's Virtual Corporate Improv Workshop is for virtual offices looking to improve their team's collaboration, listening, problem-solving, and communication skills through a fun activity. In this one-hour workshop for groups of up to 20 people, an engaging instructor will guide your group through a series of games and exercises that will help your team get to know each other and collaborate better. Your group will learn the importance of teamwork as well as not taking things too seriously in this workshop that inspires humor in everyone.
Virtual Weekly Wind Down - Facilitated Meeting
Are you looking for a team-building event to wrap up the work week? CourseHorse offers the Virtual Weekly Wind Down, a series of four weekly, 30-minute team meetings at the end of the week. In this workshop series, a professional facilitator will guide your group as they build trust and camaraderie through informal conversations. Benefits of this workshop include better relationships with coworkers, a greater understanding of the well-being of your team, and more effective meetings. Your team will bond and get to know each other as they share the past week's work or personal highlights, frustrating moments, and learnings.
After booking this course, CourseHorse will schedule a 15-minute phone call with the team lead to gain a better understanding of their team's dynamics. The team lead will then pick a 30-minute, weekly time slot any day of the week (Fridays are recommended). No prep work is required for the team lead or attendees as the expert facilitator will take care of the set-up and hosting.
Other Fun Team Building Activities for Virtual Teams
CourseHorse offers several fun and interactive team-building activities for virtual teams. Through games, trivia, food and drink classes, creative activities, and relaxation workshops, your team will have plenty of time to socialize and get to know each other better.
Virtual Googling History
CourseHorse offers the Virtual Googling History challenge as a fun way for groups to work together to uncover answers to random trivia facts. In this 75-minute class for groups of up to 200 people, your group will work in mini-teams to find answers on the Internet to questions about historically underrepresented topics and groups. A high-energy facilitator will guide your group as they learn new facts and have fun together in three rounds of Googling: an image search round, a scavenger hunt round, and a debate round. Half the time will be spent in breakout rooms with your mini teams, while the other half will be spent sharing the unique tidbits of information you've found with the large group.
Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Is your virtual team looking for a fun group competition that will get them out of their seats? CourseHorse's Virtual Scavenger Hunt will have your virtual team working together to solve riddles, find items, make quick creative projects, and interact in unique and funny ways with their surroundings. In this one-hour game for groups of up to 150 people, a high-energy facilitator will split your group into smaller teams that will work together to complete a series of scavenger challenges around their home. One of the unique challenges you'll compete in is the Riddle Races, where participants will be given clues about common objects and then go and find those items in their homes. The show-and-tell round with the large group will have everyone laughing as they share what their group found, created, and completed together. One team will win the scavenger hunt, but everyone will enjoy the entertainment and humor in this game.
Virtual Private Trivia
For a fun trivia challenge that everyone can participate in, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Private Trivia game for groups of up to 200 people. In this one-hour team-building activity, your group will compete in four rounds of different styles of trivia such as music, history, ice cream flavors, pop culture, sports, global cuisine, and dog breeds. Everyone will have a chance to apply their knowledge of various topics as they work in mini-teams to answer questions in a traditional round, music round, image round, and surprise round. Your group will have plenty of time to interact with everyone as half the time will be spent in min-teams, while the other half will be spent sharing your answers with the whole group.
Virtual Wine & Cheese Workshop
If your virtual team is spread across various locations, CourseHorse's Virtual Wine & Cheese Workshop is a great way to get everyone together for a fun online activity. In this 90-minute workshop for groups of up to 500 people, your group will learn the basics of wine and cheese pairing from a professional wine and cheese expert. Your group will learn impressive vocabulary and techniques to elevate their knowledge of how wine and cheese are created and will have time to ask questions. Each participant will be shipped two bottles of wine, French Sauvignon Blanc and Argentinian Malbec, and two kinds of cheese, French goat cheese and sharp cheddar.
Virtual Springtime Mixology
CourseHorse's Virtual Springtime Mixology workshop is a fun way to get your virtual team in the spring spirit. In this 90-minute class for up to 500 people, a professional mixologist and instructor will guide your group as they create three tasty cocktails that are perfect for springtime. Your team will enjoy themselves in this relaxing and low-pressure workshop and walk away with unique drink-making skills to impress others with. The drinks your group will make include a Daisy Buchanan Sour, a Briari Patch Cooler, and a Springtime Old Fashioned. A mixology kit will be sent to each participant that includes various syrups, blackberry thyme, bitters, a honey stick, a strainer, a jigger, and a cocktail pick, as well as various garnishes and a gift card to buy alcohol of your choice. Some additional materials are required such as a cocktail shaker (a jar with a lid or two glasses will also work), utensils, glassware, and ice.
Virtual Candle Making
If you are looking for a hands-on creative class for your virtual team, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Candle Making workshop for groups of up to 250 people. In this one-hour virtual workshop, your group will learn how to make soy candles in a beginner-friendly and low-pressure virtual environment. An expert instructor will teach you how to make elegant and environmentally friendly soy/beeswax candles that will look lovely in your home or make a perfect gift. A candle-making kit will be sent to each participant that includes a small melting or pouring pitcher, a stir stick, wax chips, candle tins, wicks, clothespins, wick adhesive, and fragrance oil.
Virtual Rough Day Recharge
Has your virtual team been putting in long work hours or working on a stressful project? CourseHorse's Virtual Rough Day Recharge class for groups of up to 100 people is perfect for letting your group know that you value their hard work and wellness. In this one-hour class, an expert instructor will teach your team how to do a series of simple desk stretches, engage in meditation, and relax with some team trivia that will lighten the mood. This class can also be upgraded to include curated sensory kits with a massage ball and fidget toys sent to each participant.
Virtual Guided Group Meditation
Is your group looking for a relaxing class that also encourages deep thinking? CourseHorse's Virtual Guided Group Meditation will teach your virtual team how to apply the principles of yoga to community outreach. In this 30-minute workshop for groups of up to 500 people, your virtual team will practice yoga exercises that focus on breathing, meditation, and awareness of your environment. Participants will also learn how to apply their holistic awareness to social causes, for example, encouraging self-care and independence in their community by starting a neighborhood garden. Individuals should wear comfortable clothing, have a comfortable space, and have a mat or something soft to sit on.
Virtual Screenshot Showdown
For teams looking for a playful activity that will have everyone laughing, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Screenshot Showdown for groups of up to 60 people. In this fun one-hour activity, your group will bond through humor as they create the silliest screenshots using filters, backgrounds, and props found around their homes. Examples of challenges include creating the best 1980s glamour shot, taking photos of fake adventures and made-up accomplishments, and photo-bombing celebrities. Participants will vote for their favorite picture in each round; while one person wins, everyone is sure to have fun in this virtual team activity.
Virtual Public Speaking Through Standup
CourseHorse's Virtual Public Speaking Through Stand-up! class is a unique way to encourage collaboration and improve communication among coworkers. In this one-hour class for groups of up to 30 people, a professional comedian will teach your group how to write jokes, improve their communication skills, and build a stand-up routine. The class consists of three rounds that will have your team working together to apply their communication skills to the art of joke writing.
Virtual Mindful Meditation for the (Home) Office
Are you looking for a way to encourage your team to take time for themselves and their mental well-being? CourseHorse's Virtual Mindful Meditation will have your team learning the tools needed to increase mindfulness, reduce stress, and increase productivity. In this 30-minute workshop for groups of up to 30 people, an expert instructor will teach your group breathwork and light stretching they can do during their work breaks. The discussion will end with an informative lesson on how meditation techniques can be applied to stressful situations in work and everyday life.
Virtual Chair Stretching
Virtual teams often spend an abundance of their day sitting in a chair, which can have negative effects on your physical well-being. CourseHorse's Virtual Chair Stretching class will teach your group everything they need to know about stretching their muscles and spine to decrease body aches. In this 30-minute class for up to 500 people, your team will learn how to mobilize their spines, improve posture, engage the core, and relieve tension. The professional instructor will also teach your team how to work in simple yet effective short exercises throughout the day to keep your neck and back from getting stiff. This low-impact class is appropriate for all skill levels and simply requires comfortable clothing and a favorite chair.
Virtual Chocolate Tasting
For virtual teams who want to learn about and eat something delectable, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Chocolate Tasting class for groups of up to 500 people. In this one-hour workshop, your team will taste three different bars of chocolate while learning about its history. A professional chef and chocolate expert will guide your group as they learn new and interesting facts and indulge in specialty chocolate from different regions of the world. All materials will be sent to each participant in advance, including three bars of chocolate and palate cleansing crackers.
Virtual Belgian Beer Tasting
CourseHorse's Virtual Belgian Beer Tasting is a fun and highly informative class for beer lovers. Your virtual team can bond as they taste a variety of extraordinary Belgian craft beers in this 75-minute workshop for up to 500 people. A professional beer expert will teach your group about Belgium's rich brewing as they sip on six different beer varieties brewed by Belgian family brewers. Your team will walk away with expert knowledge they can share with others and apply to their future beer choices. The six bottles of beer will be sent to each participant in advance.
Virtual Layered Soap Making
If your team wants to apply their creative skills in a fun and unique class, CourseHorse offers the Virtual Layered Soap Making workshop for groups of up to 200 people. In this one-hour interactive class, your group will learn how to make their own custom soaps with a beginner-friendly melt-and-pour technique. Participants will be provided a soap-making kit and will learn about the many ways to customize their soap, including using additives you can find around the house. All materials will be shipped to participants including a white shea butter base, a wood tray, a silicone mold, a cutter, three dyes, three scents, dried flowers, a melting cup, stirring sticks, and rubbing alcohol. Participants must have access to a microwave.
Virtual Escape Room: The '90s
CourseHorse's virtual escape rooms are a great way for your team to interact while doing a fun, unique activity. In Virtual Escape Room: The '90s, your virtual team will have a blast reminiscing about earlier days while participating in a fun challenge. In this 75-minute challenge for up to 200 people, your team will work in mini-groups to solve puzzles and answer riddles that will help them escape. In the scenario you are given, you and your team are campers at a '90s throwback camp when you are transported through a TV back to the real '90s and must work together to escape. Your mini-team will work in breakout rooms to solve clues in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, audio and video clips, and mini-games. While most of the time will be spent with your small group, there will be opportunities to interact with the whole group throughout the challenge.
Virtual Guacamole & Margaritas
Your group can bond and get to know each other virtually as they make a yummy snack in CourseHorse's Virtual Guacamole & Margaritas class. In this 45-minute workshop for groups of up to 100 people, a professional chef will teach your team how to make the perfect guacamole and stir up a refreshing margarita to wash it down. Participants will walk away with a new recipe for a snack that is perfect for sharing. All materials are shipped to each participant in advance including salt, simple syrup, a Hawthorne strainer, a jigger, a cocktail pick, and a gift card to buy perishable items and liquor. Additional materials required include ice, a cutting board and knife, a bowl, a cocktail shaker (or two glasses will work), and a drinking glass.