For the first week on a new team

Onboarding week games: one short game a day

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A new hire's first week is mostly logins and reading. This is the other half: five short games, one a day, where they learn who the team is. Each runs on one screen in a room and takes fifteen to twenty-five minutes.

The week

  • Day 1: First Impressions
    One true thing about each teammate's working life, hidden among fakes the rest of the team invents. The new hire learns a real thing about everyone in twenty minutes, and nobody has to give a speech.
  • Day 2: Résumé Bluff: Team Edition
    Two true lines from your working life and one that never happened. Made for teams with new joiners: everyone learns two true things about everyone.
  • Day 3: Ballpark: Team Numbers
    How many tabs does the person next to you have open? A fifteen-minute game of guesses that gets the quiet people talking.
  • Day 4: Codebreak: Departments
    Two mixed teams and four secret words each, all from working life. Mix the teams across departments on purpose, so the new hire meets people outside their own.
  • Day 5: Quiet Kudos, then Note to Next Quarter
    Anonymous thanks to end the week, then a short sealed note to the team that opens the next time you play. The new hire's first note is waiting at their first offsite.

How to run it

  • Put one screen where everyone can see it.
    People can join on their phones from the room code, or you can read the screen out loud.
  • Say this at the start: anything can be passed.
    Nobody, least of all the new person, has to answer anything they'd rather not.
  • More than ten people? Split into tables of five to eight.
    Open the team's link on one device per table.
  • You don't need to be a facilitator.
    The pack comes with a run-sheet, and the same ten games cover a half-day or full-day offsite later.

Try something free first

The Work life quiz takes two minutes against the computer, with no sign-up. If the team likes that, the week above is the next step. The full pack is on the Team Offsite page.