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As many teams have been working apart over the last year we currently get a lot of requests as in-house consultants to bring the team closer together. Some have never met their new colleagues, teams have merged but never spent a coffee break chatting so they have little conversation starters handy.
One exercise that seems to work really well is staff trivia. It can work either in a “this is the knowledge – who does it belong to” or “this is the person – what is the lie”.
How to:
– decide which way to ask (I personally prefer the first one as it is more comfortable for staff not to be the centre and allows combining people if they offer similarities)
– during prep interviews or in a separate email to the invite ask staff members, ask them to either share three pieces of knowledge no one might necessarily know about them or two lies and one truth that they are comfortable revealing
– collate it in a questionnaire – MS Forms/ PPT or just a Q&A if in a real life setting
– depending on the team, purpose of the workshop you can design different ways to reveal the truth.
a) in a one day ws you could make it a task to be revealed at the end of the day and find out about the answers during the day. The people that have most answers correct, will get something as price
b) immediately reveal the answer after each Q to allow for a bit of banter and keep it lighthearted (not a “winning” competition)
c) Go through the questions like in a normal trivia game with the answers revealed at the end with the people with most correct answers winning something.Undoubtedly, my favourite is b) and is a great activity over lunch or breakfast at the beginning of a longer session.
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