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August 19, 2022
August 19, 2022
Some weeks it’s easy to wish every day was Friday. Unfortunately, Fridays only happen once a week. However, it’s helpful to look forward to an end of the week fun Friday activity to decompress and foster teamwork. Fun Friday activities are a great way for team members to spend time together interacting and unwinding, particularly when working in remote settings. An effective way for corporate team leaders to acknowledge a job well done is with a fun Friday activity or virtual happy hour. Here are some examples of fun Friday activities that your entire team will enjoy.
While a fun Friday activity definitely helps team members unwind and have fun together after a long week, there are various other reasons fun Friday activities are rewarding for an organization.Â
- Creates an enjoyable work environment. Fun Friday activities allow team members to interact with each other in a different capacity separate from work requirements. When team members engage in an enjoyable fun Friday activity, it is motivating, Â because people who enjoy their work are eager to see an organization succeed.Â
- Builds morale. Â Participating in a fun Friday activity with colleagues helps to create a positive, energized work environment and encourages team members to appreciate one another. Watching a movie together, plotting through a virtual murder mystery or playing bingo creates comradery and develops friendships among team members.
- Fosters trust. Fun Friday activities help team members learn how to collaborate effectively together. Working together on a fun Friday activity or even socializing at a virtual happy hour helps team members build trust in each other. A trusting relationship helps people to feel more comfortable sharing ideas and creatively solving problems.Â
- Brings teams together. Fun Friday activities connect employees from various teams who otherwise might not get a chance to interact. Cross team interactions during a fun Friday activity can be helpful in future corroborations.Â
Fun Friday activities are beneficial to team members and organizations in a multitude of ways, helping corporate leaders create cohesive, highly-functioning teams while having fun and letting loose.
There are a myriad of fun Friday activities that are easily adaptable to virtual settings. Fun Friday activities can run the gamut from a virtual happy hour to a live concert, to solving a virtual murder mystery. Below are some examples of popular fun Friday activities to get any team psyched for Friday and yet, excited to come back to work on Monday.Â
- Virtual Happy Hour: A fun Friday activity sure to appeal to the whole crew is a virtual happy hour. A virtual happy hour is simply an online social interaction, generally hosted on a virtual platform such as Zoom. Coworkers chat and virtually share beverages and snacks. A virtual happy hour is an opportunity for team members to meet face to face and talk about non-work-related topics and get to know one another. Virtual happy hours often include fun Friday activities such as charades, simple games, and icebreakers. However, they can also involve a more structured fun Friday activity such as participating in a virtual murder mystery theatrical production.Â
- Online Bingo: Who doesn’t love a game of bingo? Bingo is an excellent fun Friday activity to keep a team engaged and entertained. A virtual happy hour bingo can be customized to an organization’s specifications. Bingo is an easy, familiar game to play during a virtual happy hour as part of a fun Friday activity. Providing winners creative prizes adds to the fun and is sure to liven up a virtual happy hour.
- Live Concerts: Listening to music with colleagues is a great fun Friday activity to unwind and celebrate the upcoming weekend. Live entertainment online is relaxing and entertaining as part of a virtual happy hour. Team members link to a live stream or video call and watch a performance together. Similar to solving a virtual murder mystery, a live performance is a great way for team members to bond with a shared experience. If a paid performance is not in a business’s budget, a fun Friday activity is to recruit talented team members to perform or do an improv.Â
- Remote Movie Nights: An easy and rewarding fun Friday activity is for team members to watch a film together. Watching a movie together gives team members a shared experience, something to discuss and reflect on at a later time. To make this particular fun Friday activity more engaging, team members can interact and comment on the movie in real time. There are inspiring, entertaining movies perfect for a fun Friday activity appropriate for an entire team.Â
- Virtual Murder Mystery: A memorable fun Friday activity is for a team to participate together in solving a virtual murder mystery. During this fun Friday activity, team members work together in a virtual setting to investigate and solve a virtual murder mystery. Team members develop theories about the crime and work together using logic and deduction to solve the virtual murder mystery. The experience offers team members a shared experience as they collect evidence and interrogate suspects together. Participating in a fun Friday activity such as a virtual murder mystery is entertaining, challenging, and unique. The positive energy generated by the experience of solving a virtual murder mystery continues long after the fun Friday activity has ended.
Bringing a fun Friday activity to a corporate team is a great way to keep team members energized and motivated every day of the week. A great place to start planning an outstanding fun Friday activity is with a true-life virtual murder mystery produced by Live in Theater. While the talented actors and producers of Live in Theater cannot make every single day a Friday, they can ensure an amazing virtual murder mystery theater experience your team will be talking about for days! Contact Live in Theater for more information.
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