The top virtual energizers that will boost your team’s mood

Were the energy levels lower than usual in your last team meeting? How about starting your meetings with virtual energizers to fix that?

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Virtual energizers are activities you can incorporate into your meetings to get your employees more focused and motivated. They consist of virtual team building activities, icebreakers, warm-ups, exercises, or games. 

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Benefits of virtual energizers include: 

• making employees more engaged
• getting rid of the initial awkwardness in a remote meeting 
• contributing to your team’s job satisfaction by engaging them

Online warm-ups and energizers for virtual teams

You can choose which energizer to do based on the nature of your online meeting. For example, let’s say you’re having a dead-serious meeting during the day. You might want to play some fun energizer games to help your team relax beforehand. Here are some more virtual energizer ideas:

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1. Virtual energizers that improve your teammates’ physical and mental health

• Try physical energizers for virtual meetings to prioritize your employees’ health.
  Many companies are investing in on-site sports courts, mindfulness zones, and gyms for their employees’ well-being. Why shouldn’t you be able to do this online? You can organize online exercise, stretching, or meditation sessions to get your team members moving. These can all serve as positive attitude team building activities, as well as energizers. 
• Start a meeting by playing My Emoji for open communication for mental health.
  In this activity, employees share an emoji that describes their daily or weekly mood. Starting the day with this virtual meeting energizer shows that you care about your team’s feelings. 

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2. Virtual energizers that boost creativity 

• Play Random Fairytales before a brainstorming meeting.
  Do you need your team to get creative before a meeting? In Gomada’s Random Fairytales, they will collaborate to create a story using sentences and drawings.
• Play Sound Ball as a dynamic energizer for large groups.
  If you think there’s a limit to the sounds you can make, think again! In the virtual version of this game, employees mimic throwing a ball while making a sound. When they say who will catch it, that person will mimic the same sound and ‘throw’ the ball while making a different sound. Sound Ball is more fun when you have a large group, and you can keep it going until everyone has caught the ball.

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3. Team meeting energizer ideas to set the mood for fast-paced work 

• Prepare trivia as an energizer game.
  Not only is trivia a fun team building activity, but it can also help your employees get motivated for the busy work day ahead. You can prepare a trivia quiz on any topic using free apps such as Kahoot or Crowdpurr. 
• Play Guess What as a personalized trivia game.
  Gomada’s Guess What generates questions about your employees for the whole team to guess the correct answer. Personal questions — for example, “what’s our Marketing Manager’s daughter called?” — help team members learn more about each other outside of work and feel more connected. 

4. Fun virtual icebreaker activities to get rid of the awkwardness

• Play Two Truths and a Lie for employees to get to know each other.
  Two Truths and a Lie is one of the classic icebreaker games you can play online without any additional materials. In this game, everyone makes three statements about themselves, two being true and one false. The rest of the team has to guess which one is a lie. This free team building game doesn’t require much preparation and can be used on several occasions. For example, it can be a great way to introduce new team members virtually.
• Play Guess the Childhood Photo as a quick virtual energizer for adults.
  You can ask everyone to send funny childhood photos and show them on the screen for others to guess who it is. If everyone sends a funny photo, it’s likely that this online icebreaker will result in some good laughs.

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Tips for running virtual energizers

• Consider asking your team how they feel about the activities.

Your team will love some of these energizers more than others. You can consider asking for their feedback and coming up with some alternatives if they don’t enjoy a specific activity.

• Spare some time every day to see the effect.

To see the results of the virtual energizer activities, consider giving them some time. Many quick energizers for virtual meetings can be done as 5-minute or 15-minute team building activities.

• Use tools to make your life easier.

From increasing your employees’ engagement to motivating them, there’s a software app for everything. If you’re looking for a tool that gives you personalized ideas for virtual energizers, you will love Gomada. You will learn about all things team building, including custom-made ideas for what your team needs.