Authentic Connection: Team Timeline Opener Activity

Strong team cohesion – how bonded people feel to one another – is a key element for success in distributed teams.

– Jonathan Thompson


OPENER ACTIVITY

Prepare a loose timeline (even just by decades, with space in-between) for whichever shared space works for your experience.

REMOTE/DIGITAL

  • Each team member takes four slips of paper, jotting down an important moment from their life on each
  • When they’re done, people take turns showing the camera what they have written, and each is added to a shared timeline on a shared digital space.
    • Or participants can directly add their 4 moments to the shared space via Padlet, Miro, Doc, whiteboard, etc.

IN-PERSON/ANALOG

  • Each team member takes four sticky notes, jotting down an important moment from their life on each
  • When they’re done, people take turns sharing what they have written, and each is added to a shared timeline on a shared space (poster paper, whiteboard, etc).

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