"Staying connected while working remotely isn't easy, but in this short book Hassan Osman harnesses his years of experience to compile some practical and non-obvious suggestions for getting closer to your colleagues using the tools you already have. Your team can bond virtually, and this helpful guide will help you do it."

- Rohit Bhargava, Author of the Non-Obvious Guide To Virtual Meetings & Remote Work and Founder of the Non-Obvious Guide Series

"Hassan's book of virtual team building activities is a "must-have" resource for keeping teams engaged and connected. Social connection is one of the most important habits for teams to create and this little book provides great ideas that are fun, innovative and help you get to know your remote team members on a deeper level. This should be a reference tool for all remote teams!"

- Tara Powers, Author of Virtual Teams for Dummies and Working From Home for Dummies

"Hassan's insight into remote working and management have always been practical and immediately applicable - and this book on virtual team building is no exception. With hundreds of people now working from home, this book just got added to our essentials list. The very specific yet not overwhelming instructions in here make these easy for any team to try out today."

- Patrick Linton, Founder & CEO of Bolton Remote

"Laughter reduces stress and helps build trust. Trust is the building block of high-performance teams. Hassan’s game ideas are original, fun, and will definitely help your teams bond and work better together."

- Hector Munoz, Managing Director at EY

"As the founder and CEO of two completely remote companies, I know the value that Hassan Osman's book can have for remote workers, teams, managers, and companies to build a collaborative, engaged, and fun remote work environment. At my companies, what we’ve done to create a healthy culture and build a successful business in a virtual environment has mostly been based on our own instincts. A resource like this book, which shares impactful activities to bring remote teams closer, is the type of information that can help companies build cohesive, collaborative, and highly functioning remote work environments!"

- Sara Sutton, CEO and Founder of FlexJobs and Remote.co

"As the founder of an office engagement platform, I've seen first-hand the many benefits of introducing fun into the workplace: games boost morale, productivity, creativity and connection! Hassan's guide is the perfect trail guide to bringing low-maintenance fun to your next (remote) team meeting."

- Collin Waldoch, CEO and Co-founder of Water Cooler Trivia

"If ever there was a time for Hassan’s book about fun virtual team building, this is it. Taking the time to have fun and getting to know your virtual colleagues is critically important, especially now as we shelter in place and live on Zoom."

- Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics

"Kudos for this new delightful how-to guide. These are fun, online exercises for folks working remotely, professional and student alike. Break the ice simply, quickly, with just a little time and effort."

- Howard B. Esbin, PhD., Co-Creator of Prelude Suite™

"For virtual workplaces , team building activities can be challenging but are necessary to inculcate team spirit, promote culture and offer avenues to de-stress and increase productivity. This is even more important with the social distancing constraints brought about by a pandemic. This book gives managers of any virtual team an easy reference to simple fun-filled activities that can be executed with the tools already available in most virtual workplaces. Give any of these activities a try - your virtual team members will appreciate the time well spent, resulting in smiles to their faces if not smiley emoticons!"

- Neil Gomes, Partner at Wipro Consulting

"In an age of suddenly remote working from home due to COVID-19, a robust virtual work culture is essential to your team's productivity, mental health, and resilience. Hassan Osman's "Fun Virtual Team Building Activities," provides a terrific recipe book to facilitate team activities that are not only fun but help make engagement and empathy important norms."

- Beth Kanter, Author of The Happy Healthy Nonprofit, Trainer, and Virtual Facilitator

"Well written, easy to understand, and practical. If you’re managing a remote team and want to forge team connections in unique, fun ways, this book is your manual."

- Stefan Palios, Remote entrepreneur, founder and publisher of Remotely Inclined

"The mixture of real-time and asynchronous activities and the suggestions of how to adapt them to the different communication channels (meetings, collaboration platforms, chat, email...) means that every team will find something suitable for them in the book. The games are so well explained, with plenty of resources to make them easy to play!"

- Pilar Orti, Director of Virtual not Distant & Author of Online Meetings that Matter

"Fun Virtual Team Building Activities is a great book for any team that values teamwork and collaboration. The book provides readers with practical and straight-forward activities that can really help remote teams build a strong culture; making all team members engaged. A great read for teams that recently became remote or would just like to create a new level of engagement with their colleagues."

- Michal Wisniewski, CEO of Your FLOCK

"In a time when people are starved for connection, Hassan breaks down practical ways for managers to deliver. I love that this book shares activities to both learn about your team members on a personal level and create experiences together. Our team's personal favorites are the Virtual Coffee Break, Map It Out, and Local Community Support. I highly recommend this book if you're looking for ideas on ways to bring your virtual team closer together and increase morale."

- Marissa Goldberg, Founder of Remote Work Prep

"We've been running a remote-first team for almost 10 years and have people in 37 different countries and Hassan brought up some stuff that we've never tried before that we're going to implement. For anybody trying to create a remote-first culture I'd say this is your first stop in thinking about how to keep your team communicating and engaged while they work remotely."

- Liam Martin, Co-organizer at Running Remote

"Fun Virtual Team-Building Activities is filled with great ideas, especially for team leaders who find themselves suddenly navigating through the reality of managing their team remotely. As a multi-year remote leader, many of these exercises resonated, and I have used several of these myself with my own teams. It is vitally important that leaders remember that our team members are people first, and we need to care for and about them in a broader context than just the day to day work that they are doing."

- Cathy Rowell, SVP of Channel and Sales Effectiveness at Nectar Services Corporation

"This is a must-have resource for fighting video conference fatigue and isolation. Whether you're kicking off a meeting or striving for everyday engagement, these fun exercises make a world of a difference."

- Corine Tan, Co-Founder of Sike Insights

"Without traditional happy hours and bonding activities, creating a strong culture in a remote company is tough for most managers. I loved that Osman’s book details how to achieve what almost every remote manager struggles with, and presents it in such an easy, comprehensible manner. This belongs on the desk of every remote CEO, manager, and HR person."

- Rhiannon Payne, Founder of Sea Foam Media & Technology

"Hassan has nailed the challenge of keeping a virtual team engaged & interactive. The activities are a healthy mix of personal & professional interactions that will genuinely bring your people closer together. Using this book would help us all build a family, not just a company."

- Nishchal Dua, Founder of The Remote Work Summit