EXIT STRATEGY
No.
23296 FASTCOMPANY.COM MAY 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY JANNE IIVONEN
If you’re trying to build camaraderie at your kick-ass company, don’t settle for non-disrupty drills like
trust falls and egg drops. There’s no I in team, but there is a u in unoriginal.
BY JAY WOODRUFF
SIX BOLD TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Vocal Frydays
Everybody speaks in
Kardashian intonations
and communicates
exclusively via fish gape
and emoji.Frack-a-thon
Nothing brings people together
like getting their hands dirty
by doing backbreaking labor. (Any
natural-gas deposits discovered
beneath your office will put an end
to worries about Q4 revenue.)Throwback Thursday
No intra-office IM or email. All
employees must communicate
face-to-face, via desk phone,
or using Post-it Notes. (Bonus
points to anyone who knows
their office extension.)Tough Commudder
Working in teams of three or four
during their commutes, all
employees use FaceTime and Slack
to choreograph a Bollywood-style
dance number for this year’s
corporate holiday video. Winners
are excused from filming.Stack Ranking,
Executive Edition
The rank and file rate all the execu-
tives. Whoever winds up last has
to collate copies of the board presen-
tation Power Point until 4 a.m.
the morning of the annual meeting.
Escape the
On-site Off-site
The first team to extract every member
and reassemble at Dave & Buster’s
without detection by a company execu-
tive wins swag bags from last year’s
national sales conference.