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Team building
You’ve probably heard this before, but when it comes to team building — you need to put your best foot forward! In order to have a successful team you need to create opportunities for your coworkers to step up and be who they are: an asset. Being openly happy and grateful instead of controlling or trying to hide it makes employees feel valued and helps you create a positive working relationship. This post will provide you with some excellent team building questions to help you have better conversations with your coworkers and build a better team!
- What are your favorite TV shows?
- Would you rather live at the North Pole or the South Pole?
- Would you rather have candy for dinner or have candy for breakfast?
- Where have you traveled?
- Would you rather become CEO for a day or receive a bonus?
- Vacation or staycation?
- Where do you see yourself going in the company?
- What was your least favorite childhood chore and why?
- What’s your favorite type of day? (weather, temp, etc)
- What is a best practice when working from home?
- Would you rather have a fully stocked snack bar or a limitless coffee machine?
- What is your favorite knock-knock joke?
- Would you rather sing karaoke with the head of our department or be on a group call with the CEO and your parents?
- Would you rather have a terrible boss and a good job or a good boss and a terrible job?
- What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten?
- What was the first record you ever bought?
- Would you rather never fart uncontrollably or never find a bathroom when you need one?
- Who is your pick for the most underrated character in a movie or TV show?
- Would you rather fight one bear-sized duck or ten duck-sized bears?
- Would you rather sit near the printer or the water cooler?
- Would you rather live forever or pass naturally in your sleep?
- Would you rather kill one person on purpose or twenty people accidentally?
- What is one thing you would like to do this year that you have never done before?
- Would you rather have the powers of Wonder Woman or Captain Marvel?
- What weird food combinations do you really enjoy?
- What was your least favorite food as a kid and do you still dislike it?
- What was your favorite cereal as a kid?
- What did you eat for breakfast?
- What was your favorite subject in high school?
- What was the first R-rated movie you saw? How old were you?
- What’s the story of your first crush?
- What’s wrong with “not changing” and “staying the same”?
- What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?
- What’s your first memory as a child?
- What was a time when you got into big trouble with your parents?
- Would you rather live somewhere that’s always cold or always warm?
- Where is your dream location to work from?
- What was your favorite activity as a 10-year-old?
- What’s your favorite plant?
- What wastes the most time in your day to day life?
- What’s your favorite way to waste time online?
- What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
- Where do you want to see yourself in 10 years?
- What’s your favorite song?
- What was your favorite show, book, band, or other piece of media when you were 12 years old?
- Would you rather have no one show up to your wedding or your funeral?
- What’s the most expensive habit you’ve started as an adult that you now wish you could break?
- What’s your favorite TV show and why?
- Who knows you best?
- Would you rather have a creative costume or a scary costume?
- Where do you live?
- Would you like to be famous? If so in what way?
- Would you rather keep the death penalty or abolish it?
- Would you rather have a lot of acquaintances or just a few close friends?
- Would you rather lose your sense of taste or sight?
- Would you rather go on a beach vacation or a travel adventure vacation?
- What was your first record, tape or CD that you ever owned?
- Would you rather have a theme song for your life or a constant soundtrack playing in the background?
- Would you rather talk like Batman or Mickey Mouse for the rest of your life?
- Would you rather live alone or with roommates?
- What’s the most delightful hotel or house you’ve stayed in on vacation?
- Would you rather have no arms or no legs?
- Would you rather spend a weekend without your phone or laptop?
- What is your favorite musical instrument?
- Would you prefer to always be slightly late or always be an hour early?
- What's your favorite breakfast cereal or breakfast food?
- Would you rather have the right to privacy or security?
- What’s the worst prediction you ever made?
- Would you rather know you were about to die of cancer or live the remainder of your life unknowing?
- Would you rather live in the ocean or on the moon?
- Would you rather have unlimited free airfare or unlimited free food?
- Underestimated or overestimated?
- What is the most painful memory you are willing to share?
- Would you rather have shrimp for fingers or screaming nipples?
- Would you rather live in the city or the country?
- What’s your funniest talent? Or un-talent?
- What is the last YouTube video you watched?
- Would you rather have smelly feet or food stuck in your teeth all day?
- Would you rather have the ability to fly or speak any language?
- Who is your least favorite actor?
- What’s your favorite place?
- What’s your favorite type of sandwich?
- What is your favorite compliment of all the compliments you've ever received?
- What’s the weirdest food you’ve eaten?