FUN JANUARY TEAM BUILDING IDEAS
January activities and games for work
this article will feature fun January team building ideas like games and workshops, as well as free January icebreakers and January trivia!
To kick off the new year on the right note, gather your teams for an awesome January team building experience to connect and have fun! After the chaos of the holidays and the new year, January is a great time to hone in on your team-building efforts and set the tone for the year ahead. January can be overwhelming, with lots of strategy building, goal setting, and reviewing happening, and a team bonding experience can help solidify these initiatives!
By planning a January Kick-Off campaign, you can inspire, support, and help your teams connect through a series of fun January team building events, virtual games, and free January icebreakers. These activities will help boost team culture, employee morale, and engagement for any virtual corporate event, virtual offsite, or team building event this January!
1. inspiring January team building activities
Begin your January Kick off with an immersive and highly-engaging workshop: a Bucket List Coach Experience! Invite an experience Bucket List Coach to help your teams become more fulfilled in 2024 as they explore their dreams, goals, aspirations, and how to get started. This immersive virtual workshop will guide your employees through a 12 Step Process in which they will identify what they want to achieve personally and professionally. They will leave this session empowered, inspired, and with a first step to achieving their first bucket list goal.
Bucket List Coach Experience by KraftyLab.
A mental health expert can provide your team with insight and knowledge unlike no other. Inviting a mental health speaker will give your teams practical tools and resources to support their wellness journey and hopefully inspire them to put them to practice. An expert can provide evidence-based recommendations, advice, and tidbits of information that your teams can use in their everyday lives. For January, practical talks like how to avoid burnout or sleep strategies can be well-aligned and may help set your team up for success.
Dr Ellen Vora: KraftyLab’s mental health speaker.
Many of us set resolutions in January, and they often fall into one of the following categories: health, spending habits, skill building, sustainability, etc. A Zero Waste Cooking class supports all these goals by giving your team the skills and knowledge to make delicious and easy meals while wasting less and spending less. This Zero Waste Cooking class focuses on making a delicious meal, like soup, using what you already have, leftovers, pantry essentials, and often discarded ingredients. So, invite a zero-waste chef to teach your team how to best navigate their kitchen in a way that’s more friendly for their pockets, bodies, and the planet!
KraftyLab’s Zero Waste Cooking Class.
2. fun January Wellness Activities
1. Virtual Yoga
Give your teams the gift of serenity this January with a virtual yoga class! Yoga has been used for thousands of years to help align the body and mind through postures, sequences, and breathwork. It is a two-in-one practice as both meditation and exercise, and particularly important for remote and office workers, as they spend so much time sitting down.
KraftyLab’s Yoga Class: Wellness Experience.
Mindfulness is a big buzzword for January, and it can look different for different people. Virtual meditation is a practical form of mindfulness and can be a great way to destress, refocus and breathe through our fast-paced lives. Inviting your team to regular virtual meditation sessions will give them the tools to achieve a sense of peace and release some of the stress and anxiety they may be holding.
KraftyLab’s Virtual Meditation Class.
January is often a time to try and improve our habits, and healthy eating is common. Healthy eating, however, should not be intimidating or judgemental in any way. Invite a registered dietitian to give your teams practical tips and tricks to create quick, easy, healthy meals that will support them on their healthy eating journeys. Your team can learn how to build a balanced plate, make satiating snacks and meals, and prepare meals in a way that works for their busy lifestyles.
KraftyLab’s healthy eating class.
3. Free January Team Building Ideas
Help your team get to know one another through our fun January icebreaker questions, including holiday-related questions, new year questions, and fun, easy questions.
What is your favorite aspect of new year’s?
Do you have any new year’s traditions?
Did you stick to any of your 2023 resolutions?
What was a highlight from the 2023 holiday season?
Do you have any professional resolutions for 2024?
Do you have any habits you would like to practice more in 2024?
Do you have any trend predictions for 2024?
Have you ever been a part of a polar bear swim for New Year’s?
Where would you like to spend next year if you could travel anywhere?
What did you learn about yourself as an individual or your team in 2023?
If you want to test your teams and inspire a little friendly competition, why not challenge them to a round of January Trivia? We have rounded up some questions about historical events, holidays, and other January-inspired trivia!
1. Ellis Island Immigration Station first opened in January 1982. Where was the first person from?
Ireland
Italy
Poland
2. Which Roman god is January named after?
Juno
Jupiter
Janus
3. Martin Luther King Jr. day is celebrated in January. What occasion does it commemorate?
His birthday
The birth of the civil rights movement
The March on Washington
4. What is the birthstone for January?
Amethyst
Garnet
Aquamarine
5. Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January of what year?
2006
2007
2008
6. Prohibition went into effect in January of what year?
1920
1932
1945
7. If someone is born in early January, what star sign will they be?
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
8. Which region is the first to enter the new year?
Samoa
Santa Cruz Islands
The Line Islands
9. Which of the following holidays takes place in late January/late February?
1. Chinese New Year
2. Diwali
3. Rosh HaShanah
10. Which calendar did not include January as a month?
Julian Calendar
Roman Calendar
Gregorian Calendar
For more like this, check out our New Year’s Trivia Questions and our Winter Trivia Questions!
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