New Team Kickoff

Everything you need to bring a new team together and set the foundation for exceptional collaboration. These carefully sequenced exercises help teams build trust quickly, establish shared working agreements, align on goals and values, and develop the psychological safety needed to do their best work. Whether you're launching a new project, onboarding team members, or reorganizing, start strong with a kickoff that actually kicks.

Icebreakers

Quick activities to energize and connect your team.

App First Impressions

10.0 mins

Participants share first reactions to popular apps, discussing what grabbed their attention or caused confusion. This helps teams understand the impor...

Design Focused

Exercises

Core activities to drive collaboration and results.

Atlassian - Team Charter

1.5 hours

A team charter is a living document. It defines your team's purpose, values, and working agreements. It aligns everyone on how to work together and ac...

Atlassian

Team Collaboration Simulation

2 hours

Teams often struggle to collaborate effectively, especially under pressure. This team collaboration simulation provides a structured challenge requiri...

Collaboration

Team Role Exploration

2 hours

Misunderstandings about roles cause conflict. This exercise clarifies responsibilities, expectations, and decision authority. Ambiguous roles create d...

Collaboration

Team Vision And Alignment Mapping

2 hours

Uncover team alignment and expose hidden disagreements before they cause problems. Team vision and alignment mapping highlights shared understanding a...

Collaboration

Values Mapping

2 hours

Teams often say they value "innovation" and "collaboration." But what do those words really mean? Values mapping makes the abstract concrete. Map out ...

Manifestos/Principles