Do you want to turn your remote team from mere coworkers to friends who watch out for and collaborate with one another? 

Then it would be best if you tried playing some games together online.

In this article, we rounded up eight of the best and quick online team-building game ideas you can start trying today.

If done correctly and often enough, it’ll help get your employees out of their shells and help them embody the collaborative spirit.

It won’t be uncommon to find your team members laughing when talking with one another. 

Let’s go!

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Remember, you don’t have to play all eight online team-building games. Except your team is made up of Flast, Superman, and Captain America.

You can start with the best game you believe suits your team’s current state.

Sometimes, it may be with only some of your team. It may be some people on your team that you want to come together better.

Whatever it is, as you go through these online team-building games, think about your team and each person in your team.

This will help you decide on the game to start with.

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Let’s look at the online team-building games you can start playing with your team.

1. CCSG storytelling

CCSG stands for Character, Conflict, Struggle, and Goal. 

It’s a storytelling team communication game designed to help your team members acknowledge the work of their colleagues. Also, it helps them focus on the essential aspects of their work. 

The goal of the game: To help your team members acknowledge their’s and their colleague’s efforts. 

How to play the game:

• Organize an audio or video conference call. A video conference call will be more effective because it’ll let your team members see one another and their body language.
• A team member selects a topic to discuss with the team. A successful remote project, for example.
• Each team member follows the CCSG storytelling format. The format goes like this. The people involved in the project become characters who narrate the story. The challenges faced by the team become the conflict. The process they go through in overcoming the challenge is the struggle. The result of the project becomes the goal. 

How does CCSG storytelling help make your team stronger?

Storytelling is an excellent way of bringing people together. Even more, so is a structured story.

Because each of your team members involved in the project sees themselves played out in the story and the role of other team members, they begin to grow that sense of belonging. 

This helps to increase employee engagement and their commitment to the team and company goals.

As you play this online team-building game with your team, you’d find team members trying to act humble about their achievements. 

It’s sometimes funny to watch.

2.   Mime or dumb charades

Mime or dumb charades is a fun team-building game that helps improve your team communication and promote engagement. 

This game is an ideal communication exercise for your team because it makes everyone act or performs in front of each other. 

Whether they’re good at it or not.

If you get everyone on your team to play this game, you’ve gotten them out of their shells and helped them learn how to express themselves. 

Mime or dumb charade is a total team favourite and pleaser.

The goal of the game: To improve communication and help develop engagement in the team.

How to play the game:

• Create a list of things people could do (like sleep, eat, read, type, cry, cook, drive, etc.) or popular movies (like black panther, spiderman etc.).
• Divide your team into two groups.
• The groups will take turns nominating a member of their team to mime. 
• The nominee will pick a random number from your list and mime whatever it is
• As the nominee mimes, the nominee’s team will try to guess what the nominee is miming. And say it out loud. Usually within a predetermined duration. Usually 30 seconds.
• If they get it right, they get the point.

Mime or dump charade is a proven source of great laughter and reminiscence among team members.

Try it with your team, and let’s hear how it went. 

Let us also know how long it took you to get over the laughter and fun you had while playing the game with your team.

3.   Rant it out

Rant it out is one of the communication games for your team that encourage people to rant in the open. 

This helps your team members share and understand what bothers them about their work. It’s a great way for everyone to vent and get some things off their chest.

The goal of the game: To help your team members understand the reasons behind their rants and deal with problems at work more effectively.

How to play the game:

• You and your team hop on a video or audio call
• Every team member is allotted a full 60 seconds, or more, to rant.
• The person can rant about anything that bothered them. For example, their favourite team losing a match, people’s driving skills, etc. 
• Every other team member (the listeners) pays rapt attention and listens to everything the ranter says.
• Once the ranter completes the rant, the listeners take turns saying something or making suggestions to make the ranter feel better.

When you think about it, this game helps to achieve one thing.

It helps to make your team a safe space.

If team members can rant about just anything to their teammates, reaching out for work-related collaborations or questions becomes a no-brainer.

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This game doesn’t have to be all serious and therapy-like. It should be full of humour and laughter.

4.   Zen counting

Zen counting is a team-building game that you can play online. Zen counting is designed to help team members practice letting others speak and listen instead of interrupting or jumping in. 

It’s a fun online game for team-building that encourages teamwork and collaboration.

This game is similar to mindfulness exercises that train individuals to listen closely to their surroundings and understand what others are trying to say.

The goal of the game: To help team members in your team practice letting others speak.

How to play the game:

• To play this game, gather your team in an online meeting.
• Ask your team to count from one to ten.
• One person starts counting, and everyone follows in turns with the next number. But each person can say only one number at a time. And only one person can talk at a time.
• If anyone interrupts or repeats a number, the counting begins again.

This is what will happen.

Team members will clash and interrupt each other at the beginning, with the accompanying laughter and finger-pointing.

But the more you play the game, the more organized your team members will be with their turns. And the fewer interruptions and clashing.

5.   Guess who 

Guess who is a virtual team-building game that helps to develop a bond between your team. 

It allows your team members to test their knowledge of each other’s interests, personalities, and values.  

You’d agree that a game like this will strengthen bonds within your team and help them know themselves better.

The goal of the game: To develop a bond between the team.

How to play the game:

• Get on a video call with your team
• Your team members take turns going out and bringing an object.
• The team member keeps the object hidden from everyone.
• Every other team member will try to guess what the object is.
• The other team members can only ask ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ questions. The team member with the object can only answer with ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to their questions. Until someone gets it right or everyone gets tired of guessing.

Watch out for team members who always guess what a particular person brings. Something might be fishy.

Games like this, if played often, will draw your team members closer and help them see each other as prominent family members. 

As a result, you have a team that communicates with one another quickly and collaborates like they were soldiers in an army.

In addition to that, your team members will be emotionally attached to your team and organization.

Do you know what happens when people are attached emotionally to something?

You guessed right.

They stay longer.

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So which are you starting with?

Let us know in the comments section below.

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