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8 Work From Home Tips For First Time Remote Employees – BreakoutIQ

Dean

We at BreakoutIQ would like to share 8 helpful work from home tips to help get you through the novel coronavirus pandemic. In response to COVID-19, many companies have transitioned to a completely remote workforce. But it’s not as easy as you think! You and your colleagues are used...

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How to Stay Connected With Your Team Remotely – BreakoutIQ

Karen

We at BreakoutIQ would like to share some helpful tips and team building activities for remote teams looking for ways to stay connected during the coronavirus pandemic. Your company may have moved to a work-from-home setup in response to COVID-19 and public health guidance; but just because the lights...

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How Coffee Break Contest Made a Big Impact on a Small Team

Devin

Meet Focus Lab In the downtown heart of Savannah, Georgia lies the office and headquarters of Focus Lab, a branding agency that has helped reshape dozens of brand identities, including Udacity, Serverless, and Marketo. With 25 employees, they are a small but mighty group that collaborates on everything from...

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Benefits of Regular Remote Team Building

Dean

There are a lot of factors that go into cultivating a thriving workforce culture. Your team might be rather large and looking to strengthen unity, or small and seeking to promote workplace harmony. Your employees may be partially or entirely distributed, and with more workers interested in increasing their...

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Behind the Scoreboard: The Facilitator’s Perspective

Karen

Your conference room has been transformed into a mysterious escape room and you’re full of excitement for the puzzles that await you. Two cool nerds in bright blue shirts welcome you, start the clock, and set you on your way. After celebrating the winners and a job well done...

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Trivia for Corporate Teams: Why BreakoutIQ is Right for You

Lisa

Open Concept, Closed Minds Team building is taking the world by storm in an effort to foster relationships throughout a company. Bar trivia is an attractive and easy activity for your group, but lacks the problem solving challenges that are needed for an effective team building activity.  BreakoutIQ has...

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Why Add a Learning Workshop To Your BreakoutIQ Activity?

Tamara

How Do We Learn? We learn in a myriad of different ways, and at BreakoutIQ we are most interested in experiential learning models. One influential model – Kolb’s learning cycle – describes effective learning as a person progressing through at least four stages. First there is a concrete experience....

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Escape Rooms for Corporate Teams: Why BreakoutIQ is Right for You

Tamara

Core Elements Of An Escape Room & How Breakout IQ Has Improved On The Industry Standard Escape rooms are physical adventure games in which players solve a connected series of puzzles while racing against the clock. Anything in the room can be a clue – everyday items like picture...

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Why Trivia Is Great For Team Building

Lisa

Huddled Together, Heads Down, Whispers Rampant. This isn’t a football game but it’s just as competitive. What movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1998? Ashley knows! Titanic came out the year she got her braces on and started the 7th grade. Boom! Your team whispers excitedly...

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Why Problem Solving Based Activities Are Great For Team Building

Tamara

Remember When Problem-Solving Was Play? What factors caused last quarters’ financial downturn? Who’s bringing what to your work anniversary potluck? How many vacation days do I have left again? Often as adults, our minds are churning out solutions to mundane problems of various shapes and sizes all day long....

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