Hi everyone,
It’s amazing to see how so many diverse ideas and templates are shared to help teams form meaningful connection!
Thank you to the Miro Team and Judges for hosting this challenge to feature our work and get our templates in team connection out into the world!
Looking forward to seeing more Magic happens at Miro Community!
Frankie
This is ,by far, the best news of the week! Thanks! 
Congratulations @Eline Charles, loved the simplicity and it’s an icebreaker that can be embedded in many contexts in an interactive and fun way. Kudos!
Thank you @René Nauheimer, I’m happy to hear it was so well received!
This is ,by far, the best news of the week! Thanks!
Congratulations @Eline Charles, loved the simplicity and it’s an icebreaker that can be embedded in many contexts in an interactive and fun way. Kudos!
Wow, you knocked me off my feet! I´m humbled and grateful to be a winner, thank you so much for bringing the Moon Landing template in the spotlight! 
This is ,by far, the best news of the week! Thanks!
Hi @Vincent Schnor @Johanna Torstensson @JPalz @JanaFiaccola @Romy Smith @Agile Games With James @Clyde D'Souza @Ruslan Kildeev @Nhi Tran @Tracy Bain @Frankie Kok @Lech Guzowski @NinaSwitch11 @Regine @Daria Rudnik @Eline Charles @Kokoro @DWestgarth @Val_theWiz and all the guests of this challenge 
Ta-da! I am happy to announce the winners of this Miroverse Challeneg: Team Connection 
Ladies and gentlemen,
The winners are:
Congratulations! 
The prizes will soon be on their way to the winners and all the participants who followed the entry requirements.
The winners will also see a new badge in their community profile soon 
We want to thank everyone for participating in this challenge and sharing your awesome boards! Most of these templates will soon appear in our Miroverse and will become available to all Miro users.
Stay tuned for the next challenge! 
Have a good one 
Hi @Vincent Schnor @Johanna Torstensson @JPalz @JanaFiaccola @Romy Smith @Agile Games With James @Clyde D'Souza @Ruslan Kildeev @Nhi Tran @Tracy Bain @Frankie Kok @Lech Guzowski @NinaSwitch11 @Regine @Daria Rudnik @Eline Charles @Kokoro @DWestgarth @Val_theWiz and all the guests of this challenge
You have less than 12 hours to vote for your favourite templates! 
Please note: we will only consider templates that made it to the second round 
We will be announcing the winners tomorrow! 
Hi @Vincent Schnor @Johanna Torstensson @JPalz @JanaFiaccola @Romy Smith @Agile Games With James @Clyde D'Souza @Ruslan Kildeev @Nhi Tran @Tracy Bain @Frankie Kok @Lech Guzowski @NinaSwitch11 @Regine @Daria Rudnik @Eline Charles @Kokoro @DWestgarth @Val_theWiz and all the guests of this challenge
I have an update from our judges! 
We received a lot of templates submissions and after reviewing all of them and qualifying them for different categories, below is the list of templates that made it to the next round:
For everyone who did not make it to the next round- you are welcome to contact me for feedback 
Hi @Vincent Schnor @Johanna Torstensson @JPalz @JanaFiaccola @Romy Smith @Agile Games With James @Clyde D'Souza @Ruslan Kildeev @Nhi Tran @Tracy Bain @Frankie Kok @Lech Guzowski @NinaSwitch11 @Regine @Daria Rudnik @Eline Charles @Kokoro @DWestgarth @Val_theWiz and all the guests of this challenge
Many thanks to all participants for sharing your amazing boards!
I’m here to tell you that we closed this thread for new submission and our judges take a week to choose the winner 
Public voting for the People’s Choice is also open until January 20 (EOD), so let’s get voting! Please put a thumbs-up under a post if you like a template. Participants can also share a link to this thread with your network and get their support (
NOTE: we only count the likes 
under your comment here in the Miro online community).
Stay tuned! We will get back to you on January 21 and announce the winners 
Good luck 
Hi, I am the Founder of The Creative Gym. For the Ice Breaking and Team Building Category, here is my entry for Life Values Auction.
What's Life Values Auction?
Harvard research indicates that of all the things that boost emotions, motivation, and perception during a day, the single most important thing is making progress in doing things that are meaningful to you. What are the things that are meaningful to you and the underlying value that guide your action?
At Life Value Auction, a fun exploration of self-discovery game, we will come together to play an auction simulation game and dig deeper into the values, lessons learned and stories behind your choice and gain more clarity in your life’s value!
How does Life Values Auction works?
- Imagine right now you join a virtual camp with a group of friend to discuss about life choices based on the the time you have left in your life i.e. 10 years and that’s all you have to bid the 20 items in the auction list, from being a millionaire to living a worry-free life, what’s your choice?
- Bidding on an item indicates you are willing to spend “x” years on achieving such goal ("Cards" as auction items) and "1 Life Coin" = 1 year of your life.
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Name: Jana Fiaccola
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Role: Collaboration & Leadership Coach
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Category: team building
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Miro board:
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Instructions on how to use the template:
Use this template if you want to optimize the energy in the team and to strengthen their team spirit.
It is a combination of self reflection and learning more about the other team members.
Usage: Follow the rules within the board.
Part 1: What is your current energy level?
1 - Ask for their current energy level and let them stick it to the battery
2 - Let them present their currency level & ask to share insights
Part 2: What can be done to improve your current level?
1 - Ask what can be done (by themselves for themselves, by others, for others)
2 - Let them share their notes
Social Bull’s Eye DIY workshop
- Lech Guzowski
- Workplace Culture Design @ human
- Team building
Inspired by an activity done at Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era, the purpose of this activity is to see under the surface and create a picture of how people see themselves in relation to the team. It's a great exercise to improve team cohesion as it encourages vulnerability and showcases other people's perspectives.
You start bask asking everyone to position themselves on the bull's eye based on how connected they feel to the team. Then you focus on discussing and exploring what makes individual feel more and less connected. The real value is in the final part where the group discussed what they should continue or stop doing to help improve things.
Step by step instructions can be found inside the template.
Team Self-assessment DIY workshop
- Lech Guzowski
- Workplace Culture Design @ human
- Team building
Most teams operate on auto-pilot with little thought given to how people fit and grow together. Stopping and doing this exploration is not only a great exercise to bring the team closer together, but also surface challenges or tensions which otherwise might go unsaid.
This workshop looks at 4 areas:
- team relations and environment - how does the team work together? what blocks/enables them?
- team purpose - what's the team's why?
- communication and decision-making - how does communications happen in the team? What helps/hinders information flow?
- learning and individual development - how team members learn and develop?
It first allows individuals to reflect for themselves before collaborating together to create a map of actions for further exploration.
The aim is to surface challenges and tensions which otherwise might go unsaid and create a list of actionable tasks and topics for further discussion.
Step by step instructions can be found inside the template.
Penny Game
The Penny Game is a popular agile game to teach the importance of reducing batch sizing and the evils of large workloads. It helps people understand the time it takes to deliver value to a customer.
How to use this template
This game is ideally for 10 people plus the facilitator but can be scaled back to 4 people with the facilitator taking over the roles of the customer and the scribe. Each worker would then use their cell phone to start timing the start/stop time of themselves, while the facilitator tracks time from the first coin flipped/changed colour by the first worker... to the last penny flipped by the last worker.
If you enjoy please subscribe to my YouTube Channel where I review other games, create templates, and provide resources for your teams!
Multitasking Myth-Buster Game
This is the Multitasking Mythbuster Game to be played In Miro. This game is a great example to show the cost of multitasking and context switching. This game is perfect for remote teams. To learn how to facilitate this game please watch the movie below.
Setup
Part 1 - Select one of the orange box play areas and write your name in the purple box that says "Your Name Here"
Part 2 - Grab your phone/stopwatch and set it to the timer mode ( which will count up when pressing start)
Round 1
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(start the timer)
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Write each first character horizontally
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Then write the next character in each column horizontally
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Continue with each row till you are done
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( Stop the timer/ Record your time)
Round 2
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(start the timer)
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Write the characters in the specified order, this time complete each column's characters all at once before moving on to the next column.
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( Stop the timer/ Record your time)
Wake Up In The Morning
Everyone has a morning routine...
But not everyone's morning looks the same. Some involve pets, others kids, some are breakfast people... while others are not.
In this virtual agile game, we adapted the popular "Wake Up In The Morning" game. This game comes Jeff Patton's book "User Story Mapping". Steve Fraser and I collaborated on this template together to bring this amazing game to the Miroverse. You can watch the video below on this page or on m YouTube channel about how to play. Full instructions are also provided in the template as well.
This game is a great exercise for story mapping, iterative development, creating an MVP, Sprint Planning, and much more. It can also be a great way for new teams to get to know each other.
- Keep On Learning!
Chocolate Bar Game
In this game your players will be mostly customers while the only a few players will make up the team and PO. It works great for teams of 5 and up, but you may need to make multiple copies for teams over 10. By the end of each round the customers will answer yes or no if they would buy the candy bar.
This game is not so much about chocolate as it is about satisfying customers while under constraints. This game will also get you to empathize with the product owner as well as the customers and create great conversations/analogies around the constraints you may face in your current organization.
Can your team satisfy your customers? Put your product ownership to the test and have some fun with this great game.
Check out the video below for an idea of how to facilitate the game and some of the conversations that it created for us.
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My name: Johanna Torstensson
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I am Agile Coach in Sweden
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Category: Team building
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Miro board
- What is it?
The Moon Landing exercise brings people together to navigate a high stakes survival situation! 
It is ideal to stimulate the problem solving capacity of your team. It helps your team to practice communication, assertiveness and self-confidence to stay alive in the hostile environment on the moon!
The Moon Landing exercise was originally developed by NASA.
- When to use it?
Moon Landing exercise is a team building activity that will reveal how your team deal with problem situations in extreme circumstances when time and resources are limited.
You can use it to build your team and develop their team working skills anytime during their journey together.
- How to run it?
This Moon Landing exercise can be done in any group size. The template is created for 9 people but can easily be adapted to any size of your group, by duplicating the Ranking sheets so everyone has their own copy.
During the assessment step you will break up in smaller groups of 3 for efficient discussion and decision making.
Time needed for this team building exercise is 90 min in total.
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More detailed process steps how to facilitate the Moon Landing exercise are found in the Miroverse template.
Enjoy! 
Regards, Johanna
- @Vincent Schnor (a Company Board by @Netzwerkknoten)
- Agile Coach & Organisational Consultant @Netzwerkknoten
- Category: Team Building
- Instructions are in Miroverse & on the board
- Title: Open Space Remote Edition
- Link: https://miro.com/miroverse/open-space-remote-edition/
- @Vincent Schnor (a Company Board by @Netzwerkknoten)
- Agile Coach & Organisational Consultant @Netzwerkknoten
- Category: Team Building
- Instructions are in Miroverse & on the board
- Title: Hybrid Culture Canvas
- Link: https://miro.com/miroverse/hybrid-culture-canvas/
- Your full name: Romy Oceane Smith
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Role and company: Scrum Master, Stint
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Mention category: team building, Icebreakers
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Miro board embedded with your template (with view access):
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Instructions (included in the template)
3 minute Video (
Icebreaker Islands, Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration - 10 January 2022 - Watch Video
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Instructions:
What?
The ‘Icebreaker Islands’ template is all about team building. It ties 6 icebreakers together into a single game that can be played in a single social event or over a series of weeks.
It was created to build team bonding exercises into your teams’ process.
Who?
This is particularly beneficial for:
When?
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This was designed to be built into a recurring weekly or fortnightly team meeting. For example, a project check-in, virtual ‘drinks’ or even a team retrospective.
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It could also be played as a single game. For example, to introduce colleagues from across teams in a virtual company social event.
How Does it Work?
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Your journey begins at ‘arrivals’; where you and your team will play the first of 6 challenges.
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You will then travel across all of the ‘Icebreaker Islands’, discovering a different icebreaker at each one.
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Once the first 5 challenges are complete, you will reach your final destination: the ‘mystery island’, where ‘X marks the spot’ & you play the final challenge.
P.S. Thanks for running the competition. I always have a lot of fun using miro-based-meetings to achieve my goals for the teams; however, the high standard of templates from across the miro community really made me challenge my miro skills and level up my formatting.
Template: Mood Check In - Christmas
Use this simple mood check in board to see how everyone's doing in the team.
I've created an avatar for each team member and suggest you to add the individuals name below the avatar to make it more interactive and fun.
There're different ways to use the board, for example:
It might open up a few discussions or untie a few things. However I hope you find this simple mood board valuable.
Template: Mood Check In
Use this simple mood check in board to see how everyone's doing in the team.
I've created an avatar for each team member and suggest you to add the individuals name below the avatar to make it more interactive and fun.
There's different ways to use the board, for example:
It might open up a few discussions or untie a few things. However I hope you find this simple mood board valuable.
Template: Retrospective - Christmas Edition
This is a retrospective with a touch of Christmas.
Start with an icebreaker and share your favorite Christmas movie with the team.
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Most wonderful time of the year? - Things that made my iteration to a wonderful one
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How the Grinch stole Christmas? Things that made me feel that the Grinch stole my iteration
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All I want for Christmas is you - Things that we would like to bring into the next iteration
Tips! Play some music in the background while the team is writing the notes.
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. This contest is all about reflection and learning. How do you make sure your team members feel connected, supported, and happy? What are the Miro tools you use?
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