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Different clients come to us for similar reasons yet call what they are looking for different things. Some are looking for online team building, some remote team building and others for virtual team building. To us, they are all the same thing. But could they be different? Well, yes. They could. Certainly, each word describes…

You might be a leader choosing an online team building activity for your remote team. Or you might have been tasked by a leader to find one. Either way, how do you go about it? There seem to be so many different options available these days. The online team building activity landscape has changed dramatically…

Sometimes, coming up with a new topic for an online team building article is challenging to say the least. Particularly after a holiday weekend as we have just had in the UK. To help with that, we called upon a creativity technique devised by Dr Edward de Bono. As many readers may know, he is…

As we sat down to think about this next blog entry, Easter started to enter our thoughts. At the time of typing, the Easter weekend is just a few days away. When we think of Easter, we can’t help but think of Easter Eggs. But this is an online team building focused blog, so the…

For some reason, any post that starts “7 reasons” attracts readers. So we thought we’d have a go. Online team building is what we do, so this post offer 7 reasons for you to do some. In fact, not only why it’s worth doing but why it’s worth getting the professionals involved. In other words,…

Running an online team activity seems an obvious path for organizations to travel these days. Why? For many, it’s obvious because it’s the only real option if people are working from home. Even for those who nowadays spend some time in the office, but other times from home. Getting everyone together in person remains dificult…

If you’d gone looking for online team building just a couple of years ago, your options would have been limited. The pandemic has forced a major change in the online landscape in many areas and team activities is certainly one of those. Traditional team building (read “in person”) companies had to adapt to the changed…

We set our first MiniScavenge scene in a city. “Global City” is styled on New York. It’s cram packed with great opportunities for treasure hunt clues and, like New York, is easy to navigate. Both of these characteristics make it a great choice or first time MiniScavengers. With five other scenes to choose from these…

We’ve been been offering clients a variety of virtual Christmas party options for many years.  Some have gone fully for a Christmassy theme.  Others, with mixed religion groups, have preferred to focus on a more seasonal winter theme.  Whichever style people have opted for, we know they’ve had great fun! As we write this, we…

Remote team building wasn’t required when we started back in 1992 – yes, we’ve been around a while! Back then, we had an office.  A real one.  That everyone worked from.  Every day.  Home working was only really for consultants and other small businesses in the early 1990s.  Global virtual teams didn’t really exist.  If…

After much consideration, we have decided to begin an online team building activities blog.  It’s only taken us 13 years to make this decision.  Clearly, we don’t like to be rushed! So, why start now?  It’s a bit of a long story… Pre-pandemic – how it used to be Until the pandemic hit, we were…