The benefits of virtual team building 🎉
Managing remote workers involves finding more creative ways to bring your teams together despite the physical barrier. Virtual team building activities can do this job perfectly while offering numerous other benefits for your team members and company.
Here's why virtual team building is always an excellent idea for your business:
- Remote bonding games bridge the gap caused by physical distance 🌉
- It creates excitement and ignites their passion 🙌
- Virtual team bonding activities boost productivity 📈
- It improves the communication skills needed in a remote work environment 🗣
- Your employees will feel a sense of identity when they perform team bonding activities 🥸
- Remote team bonding helps managers to build trust in team members 🤝
How to schedule online team building experiences on Zoom 📅
When choosing the perfect virtual platform for team building activities, Zoom ticks all the boxes. It's free, lets you schedule your events, and can host up to 100 teammates at once. Plus, the new Zoom plans have even wider options 🙌
For an even more seamless and fun virtual experience, Confetti can easily schedule your virtual events. We'll take care of all the heavy lifting and let you plan your activities in under 2 minutes.
Here's a comprehensive list of the features you enjoy when you book your events with us:
- Attendee management 👯
- Customizable events ✨
- Unique and fresh ideas 💭
- Instant price quotes 💨
- Cherry-picked vendors ⭐️
- Ultra-simple planning ✍️
- Events briefings and custom invites 💌
- Dedicated coordinator to help plan your experiences for free 😎
TL;DR best of the best 💫
So, you don't have the time to explore the numerous team activities and pick the best for your team, right? Even if you make time, it's still challenging to choose the best out of equally fun and exciting events. We get it.
That's why we've taken our time to select the best of the best zoom team building games for you. You deserve the absolute best, and we did say we would do all the heavy lifting, didn't we? 😉
So, let's get right to it — the best-pick virtual team building games based on your goals.
🥇 Best Zoom icebreaker: Water Cooler 💦
What spreads warmth, sparks connections, and eliminates the tension between team members better than icebreaker questions from Water Cooler?
This online game begins with a fun and unique icebreaker question that team members must answer in randomized breakout rooms. After about five rounds, everyone meets again to share the most interesting facts they learned about other team members!
Why is this the best Zoom icebreaker? 🤔
Water Cooler gets everyone talking (even more introverted remote employees) and is perfect for small and large groups of up to 200 participants. Plus, the short time options make it easy to add to the start of meetings!
How to get started 👇
Visit Water Cooler on our website to book your game right now. No it'll be your most exciting team building experience ever.
🥇 Best Zoom activity on a budget: Custom Trivia 🧠
This virtual activity features four exciting and unique trivia rounds customized to suit your interests — and pocket, of course!
Trivia gives you 30 thrilling themes to pick from while we do the research and create unique, customized experiences for you. Your host provides each team with a digital sheet to record answers and points in-between rounds.
Have a bunch of team jokesters? Good news: teams get extra ✨sparkle points✨ when they provide witty answers.
Why is this the best Zoom activity on a budget? 🤔
Despite its low cost, Trivia questions offer your team great value — it's collaborative, competitive, inclusive, customizable, engaging, and impactful.
How to get started 👇
No long stories; simply head on over to our Custom Trivia for full details and an easy booking process.
🥇 Best Zoom activity for large groups: Confetti Pub 🍻
If you're looking for a Zoom team building game for your large group, Confetti Pub is your best bet!
The Confetti Pub is a fun place to meet your team, share experiences and customize your adventure. It comprises a friendly host, live music, conversation rooms, pub Trivia, Coworker Feud, and more!
And guess what? Confetti Pub can accommodate as many as 493 team members!
Why is this the best Zoom activity for large groups? 🤔
Confetti Pub haves offers something of everything, meaning even your hardest-to-please team members will have a fun time waiting for them.
How to get started 👇
Check out more about the Confetti Pub right here!
🥇 Best way to try the best Zoom activities at once: Mash-Up
Who says you have to stick with one game when you can mash your favorite ones up?
The new improved Virtual Mash-Up comprises three of our unique games for fun and spectacular entertainment. Your team gets to enjoy the best of Water Cooler, Classic Trivia, and Taboo, all at once.
Why is this the best way to try different Zoom activities? 🤔
Virtual Mash-Up triples the excitement and ensures that you don't miss out on any of your favorite games. Plus, it’ll give you a better idea of what to book next time around. 😉
How to get started 👇
Fill in the details on our Virtual Mash-Up page and prepare for the best game experience of your life.
11 more virtual team building activities your team will love 😍
Do you need some suggestions on fun activities to uplift your employees' spirits and boost their productivity this year?
Here are 11 team building activities for Zoom to drive employee engagement and boost productivity. 🎉
1. Murder Mystery Party ☠
Choose your favorite crime scene: Murder at River Crossing, Murder in La La Land, or The Ryan Case 1873. Someone is assassinated, and the killer is on the loose; can your team solve the crime and bring the culprit to justice? 🧐
This activity simulates a real-life crime scene to bring out the detective & teamwork skills in your teams. The game introduces team members to the scene with mysterious characters on a Zoom video call. They'll rotationally interrogate the suspects and gather evidence in breakout rooms, converging at the main room for the suspect reveal.
✨ How to Get Started: Visit Murder Mystery Party at Confetti for mystery theme options that will blow your mind! 🤯
2. Escape Quest 🔓
An online escape room and scavenger hunt mash-up — your team has seen nothing like this before.
Our game organizer will provide the virtual escape room instructions and backstory, giving you an hour to complete the puzzles and win! You must submit the correct answer clue by clue until you solve the mystery. Team members should work together to complete the virtual escape quest in the least time possible.
How To Get Started: Begin your Escape Quest on Confetti if your team's got the logic, memory, perception, and dexterity to pull this off.
3. Taboo 🙊
A simple, yet extra fun game for an exhilarating online team building experience.
Teammates guess the word on top of virtual each card using our online game platform. Meanwhile, the opposing team will ref! Your goal is to earn more points than your opponent by guessing as many words as possible per round. The team with the highest points at the end of the game wins.
✨ How To Get Started: Our virtual Taboo page has all you need to get started!
4. Thai Cooking Class 🥘
Cook up a storm and have fun while you’re at it!
Choose a traditional Thai dish, and a culinary expert will guide you through cooking preparations, ingredients, and techniques. Team members don't need any cooking experience, and they get to ask questions in the process.
Plus, the class accommodates up to 495 people. Talk about a big company dinner!
✨ How To Get Started: Step your culinary skills up a notch by visiting the Thai Cooking Class on Confetti!
5. Cookie Decorating Class 🍪
Have a chill time in our online cookie class, where our professional baker will instruct your team on basic decorating techniques for pre-baked cookies.
Have no fear competition-lovers: team members get to participate in cookie decorating challenges while they’re at it. At the end of the class, everyone will come together to showcase their beautiful decorations.
✨ How To Get Started: Our Cookie Decorating Class baking experts at Confetti can’t wait to get you started.
6. Terrarium Workshop 🪴
Do an online team building activity that your remote employees will appreciate for life, like brightening up their home office space with a plant terrarium.
This activity allows participants to make a plant terrarium to enhance their home office’s aesthetics. They’ll learn all they need to know from a crafty botanical expert, and their souls will thank you for it.
✨ How To Get Started: Easy peasy. Just head on to the Terrarium Workshop, where everything is ready for you to begin.
7. Wine Tasting 🍷
For participants 21+ only.
Wine lovers, this one’s for you
Choose a wine kit, and our wine educators will show your group the fundamentals of wine tasting. Your team will get to savor the tantalizing taste of 3 unique wine choices while appreciating their smell and look. Participants can even ask their expert host any question about wines!
✨ How To Get Started: Ready? Our wine educators for Wine Tasting at Confetti are too; head over there ASAP 🏃
8. Laughter Yoga 😂
Between laughter and yoga, we don’t know which is more therapeutic, so we combined them because we can. 🤷
A laughter yoga teacher will instruct the class on interactive laughter, gentle breathing, and warm-up exercises. Participants can also ask questions in a mindful Q&A session!
✨ How To Get Started: Head right onto Laughter Yoga for a good laugh and some fun yoga.
9. Deskercise Class 💪
Introducing Yoga from the comfort of your desk. Team members start with a brief meditation session. Then, they move on to learning chair yoga benefits, stretch techniques, and meditation exercises!
✨ How To Get Started: Begin deskercising today!
10. Painting Classes 🎨
Paint up a storm with your inspiringly creative team members!
In this class, participants learn to paint and create unique art by following a virtual demo. You can choose the preferred format, medium, and even the subject your team paints.
✨ How To Get Started: Life's colorful and pleasant when you join the painting class with Confetti.
11. Jeoparty 📺
What is Jeopardy? A virtual, competitive game show that’ll beat any old conference call.
A fun host will take your team through a rousing Jeoparty game board via video chat. And just like the classic game show, you’ll have to come up with the questions to the game answers. Get ready to hit that digital buzzer and earn points!
✨ How To Get Started: Jump on this link to Virtual Jeoparty ASAP for a battle of the brains.
Confetti is making virtual team building more engaging than ever 🎉
As we predict a rise in the number of remote workers in the future, HRs and team leads must find creative ways to keep the group connected. Fortunately, our virtual team building games can help your teams connect, learn, and laugh with one another better than ever before.
✨ Ready to get started? Browse all our offerings & book your entire event in under 10 minutes today!