Remote social ideas

Here is a list of ideas that you can use to create more social connection in your organisation. In no particular order...

1. The quiz night. Whether you hire a professional quiz master, buy an online quiz app or get everyone to contribute a list of 10 questions, it's a great way to get people interacting. You can use videos, share screens, play hangman, pictionary, YouTube quizzes, bullseye, family fortunes... the list is endless. Find a time that works for everyone, get together and have fun.

2. Activities Sessions. These are great structured sessions. It might include an escape room, a charity whodunnit or horse racing, or send people an activity to do together or invite a tutor. Perhaps pottery, art class, origami, cookery class, afternoon tea. 

3. A team challenge. Now physical challenges, especially for charity, always seem to work well - for the physcially minded at least. I have seen some great challenges such as the Captain Tom Moore 100 challenge (walk, squat, press ups, dance) - the participants choose the challenge. Others have done race/row/walk around the globe. The WellGiving app is a great tool for teams to contribute an activity and compete against others. It does not limit physical or mental ability and is inclusive.

4. Team-building. There are lots of team building activities that you can do online. I have delivered plenty over the past couple of years. We have used personality profiling, innovative challenges, brainstorming workshops, team culture sessions, vision boards galore. Get a facilitator in and let them run a session for you.

5. Coffee mornings. Whether it is a formal session where people join for an hour a week and get thrown into breakout rooms or people are partnered up and go for a walking meeting together, speed networking or asked to talk about a topic, "What did you want to be when you were little?", "What is the best holiday you have ever been on?". There are lots of innovative ways to get people talking.

6. Development programmes. Bring a cohort or team together for regular training, development or group coaching sessions. 

7. Do wellbeing sessions, perhaps Yoga, Meditation, Pilates, a fitness instructor. Regular sessions are a great way to create social activities that aren't work focused.

8. Random acts of kindness. Perhaps give everyone a small budget and ask people to gift something to someone else. 

9. Book clubs. Perhaps you could even create a company library, audible subscription or something similar. 

10. TedX Tuesdays. One company I worked with decided to share one Ted talk per week and then come together to discuss the topic.

Many of these work in face to face environments too and can be adapted for the Hybrid enviroment.