What is Virtual Team Building?
If your team is bored of the standard virtual zooms or teams meetings that businesses have put in place since 2020, then you need to level up and try our virtual team building. Virtual team building should not be boring, and with our range of virtual team building and virtual escape rooms, there is now no excuses.
Should your team be sitting in front of their computer screen bored? No they shouldn’t, they need to be inspired so that they are more productive and skilful. The good news is that our virtual training can be done on any screen sharing platform such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Team-viewer, and the rest. This means you don’t have to download anymore software and can use something your team is comfortable with.
The Science Of Virtual Team Building
A 2020 study by Fundera says that even before the pandemic hit and forced work from home, there were over 5 million employees in the US working from home half the time anyways.
It’s also estimated that two thirds of managers who offer flexibility and remote work see more productivity from their work from home staff. Further studies from Atlassian show that teams with an openwork style are 80% more likely to report higher emotional wellbeing. With this being said it is apparent that working from home is here to stay in many organisations, and virtual team work and virtual team building will only grow.
The studies also show that effective communication is the key to making it work. Some of the negative issues of working from home or virtually is that some workers find their work invisible, and they have issues of navigating new barriers to collaborate, such as having less access to their managers, amongst other issues. How do we solve these issues? With the correct virtual team building.
For remote teams that need a session with actual narrative pull — not just a Zoom quiz — The CEO’s Abduction virtual team building scenario is a longer-form, story-driven format where distributed teams have to coordinate clues, role-play and decision-making against a ticking clock. It’s particularly effective for newly-formed remote teams that haven’t yet found a shared rhythm.
Virtual team building solves issues
So virtual team building has to be strategically designed to engage, inform and inspire your workforce. It also has to reenforce a shared team identity, something that you get when you are working with your team in person. Some examples of the virtual team benefits are below.
- Virtual team building reminds everyone in the organisation that they have a team around them and gives them important time with their colleagues. This can stop any negative emotions from cropping up such as isolations, loneliness or the feeling of being unsupported by the organisation.
2. Virtual team building activities help bring out excitement, fun, and healthy competition to the virtual workforce with engaging games and tasks that would be harder to replicate, and more costly to do in person.
3. Virtual team building is perfect for hybrid working, where the whole office can also play virtually online with the remote members of the team, so there is no hard rules saying that It has to be done with all staff being remote.
4. Virtual team building gives workers that crave autonomy a perfect opportunity to gain trust from their managers and peers.
Leadership is key to virtual team building
Kirstin Sundin, a business scholar, who studies many organisations, found that transformational and visionary leadership can get remote engagement levels up to onsite engagement levels. Whether your team is temporarily or permanently working from home, you don’t have to be together in person to have fun and blow off some steam.
Team building can increase communication and morale on any team since it’s a crucial part of an ongoing employee engagement strategy. Team building events are a great way to welcome a new colleague, celebrate surpassing your team goals, or just to get the team together. They let your employees socialize outside of a work environment, develop existing relationships, and get to know teammates they might not interact with regularly, which can improve workplace collaboration and increase team performance.
For finance, data and analytics teams in particular, the Number Crunch analytical virtual team building format pitches the puzzles at the level that actually engages quantitatively-minded people — the most common feedback being that it’s the first virtual team event that felt like it respected their intelligence.
Building high-performing teams goes beyond daily tasks — it requires intentional, engaging experiences that strengthen bonds and improve collaboration. Organisations across the UAE are increasingly investing in dynamic team activities, and Bespoke is a standout option that challenges participants to communicate, problem-solve, and trust one another in a structured yet enjoyable environment.
The benefits of virtual team building are clearest when the activity itself is well-designed enough to create genuine connection across a screen. The Virtual Treasure Hunt for distributed and hybrid teams is a proven example — a collaborative, competitive, and energising experience that consistently delivers the rapport-building results that remote teams need most.
The 5 main benefits of virtual team building
- Virtual team building improves productivity and strengthens the collective.
- Promotes teamwork and ensures everyone gets a platform to communicate.
- Builds stronger relationships amongst team members.
- Improves communication and collaboration for all people involved.
- Reduces stress and improves employee wellbeing leading to better mental health.
For teams who want a virtual format with a problem-solving edge rather than pure entertainment, The Vaccine Hunt collaborative virtual team building puts cross-functional sub-teams against a shared scenario where information has to be shared deliberately to win — a useful design for organisations actively trying to break down silos.
What are the best virtual team building solutions?
PROTRAINING offer many virtual team building options. We also have the best facilitators in Dubai and The Middle East to guarantee that they get the most out of your team.
Our virtual team building is not just the mediocre programmes that are out there either. They are customisable to each organisation so they are unique to your team and your team only. They are facilitator led so that our experts can keep your teams engaged and excited always, as well as give them great structure and clarity on what your team needs to do.
Whether you’re looking for a single workshop or a multi-module learning journey, Protraining has a solution to match. Explore our full training catalogue for a comprehensive overview of available programmes across leadership, team building, sales, communication, and experiential learning — all available for delivery across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the wider UAE.
Within our virtual escape room range, the Rescuing the Sheroes virtual escape room sits as the most narrative-rich option — particularly popular with organisations using International Women’s Day or D&I moments as the anchor for a team event with substance beyond a panel discussion.
Among the lighter virtual options, the virtual treasure hunt team building game is the easiest to drop into a typical workday — a 60-to-90-minute format that combines individual research, team coordination and quick wins, which works particularly well as a remote-team energiser around quarter-end.
Among the higher-production virtual formats, the DIB: The Secret Service virtual team building experience runs as a multi-act spy-thriller scenario with live characters and branching outcomes — the option to choose when the brief is to give a senior or VIP audience a virtual session that doesn’t feel cheap.
So what are you waiting for? Contact us today to learn more about how virtual team building can work for you organisation.
See below for our full list of virtual team building.
Among our themed escape rooms, the Midnight Hunger Hunt virtual escape room is the most lighthearted and pitched specifically at evening or end-of-week slots where the brief is morale rather than insight — useful for marking team milestones without burning a working day.
For organisations that want a recurring team event with progressive difficulty rather than a one-off, the Regaining The National Treasure escape room trilogy is designed as a three-part arc that can be run across a quarter — giving teams a shared storyline that reinforces collaboration across the gap between sessions.
Please see our new Virtual Team Building Solutions
The CEO's Abduction
Virtual Team Building
Rescuing the SHEREOS
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Escape Room - The Last Piece
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Midnight Hunger Hunt
Virtual Team Building
The National Treasure Trilogy
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DIB Secret Service
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Virtual Treasure Hunt
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Number Crunch
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The Vaccine Hunt
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