How the Team-Building Business Has Reinvented Itself in the Pandemic

Businesses nationwide are struggling to stay cohesive and stress-free while working from home. These leaders are looking for solutions.

Kelly Leonard knows a lot of team-building games from his job at the famed Chicago-based improv troupe, the Second City. But his new favorite starts with everyone on Zoom writing down a wish.

Next, they write down the emotions that achieving the wish would evoke. Then, they write down something they can do right now, in their home, to encourage those same emotions. A swim in the ocean would leave you feeling refreshed? Go for a walk. Slap water on your face.

“You start to reflect on the fact that yes, you can’t do certain things, but you are in charge of your emotions and your attitude toward the world right now,” says Leonard, the Second City’s executive director of learning and applied improvisation. And when entire teams come to that realization simultaneously, their stress eases. Communication improves. So does productivity.

Leonard has been thinking a lot about people’s mindsets since the country shut down and his company had to move its corporate team-building department, Second City Works, to the virtual realm. He’s one of the many team-building experts across the country spending their quarantines creating new programs that specifically address the demands of remote work in the coronavirus age. These activities range from Zoom improv to online magic shows–and they’re getting a big response as remote workplaces struggle to stay cohesive and low-stress.

Second City Works launched its online program in April–at roughly $10,000 per workshop, it targets larger companies–and has already attracted big-name clients like Salesforce. Don’t worry: Smaller companies with tighter budgets can find plenty of similarly reinvented experiences online.

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