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Posted by Chloe Manchester ·

Epi Games?

Hi All! I have somehow gotten myself involved in helping plan our Infectious Disease Surveillance Epi team's "Staff Day" - an off-site annual event that we have not had for 2 years. Its half "fun"/ team building but also needs to have some content-relevant activities (i.e. something epi/ infectious disease related). Does anyone have ideas?? I am thinking a scavenger hunt or Trivia game but would love to know if you have done something like this in the past. 
Thanks!

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Erica Smith, Deputy State Epidemiologist, DE Erica Smith, Deputy State Epidemiologist, DE
I've done bingo before! It's a great ice breaker depending on how well the team knows each other already and it's easy








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Natalie Marzec, Zoonotic Disease Unit Manager, CO DPHE Natalie Marzec, Zoonotic Disease Unit Manager, CO DPHE
We've done collective noun trivia with mini microbes as prizes at our One Health conference - like what's the collective noun for a crow? and whoever yells "murder!" first wins.
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Amelia Salmanson, Viral Hepatitis Coordinator Amelia Salmanson, Viral Hepatitis Coordinator
Hi Chloe! We just had our first program event in two years as well and did a ton of games; it was so fun! We didn't have an infectious disease theme, but we broke into teams and played a bunch of Minute to Win It games: here & here. You might be able to get creative & make them ID themed?
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Chloe Manchester, Epidemiologist Chloe Manchester, Epidemiologist
These are all amazing suggestions! Thanks everyone!
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Katrina Hansen Katrina Hansen
Love this thread! We had a game that was made locally. I think it was called 'Pox' (timely for what is going on now). It was like a roll out board game and goal was to vaccinate. I will try to dig it up and see if we have extra. Happy to mail it out if I do find an extra on hand but these were made a while ago. 

We also have a 'getting to know you' at various meetings. Depending on the size of the group, you can have a couple people present each time. They answer random questions about themselves and it helps with team dynamic. E.g., 1) what was your first job, 2) what did you want to be when you grew up, 3) what is a hobby of yours, 4) if you could paint a picture what would it be?, 5) if you could meet anyone, who would it be and why? , 6) what is something you are excited about in the next upcoming year. etc. You could pick any array of questions. At times it may feel cheesy, but works for both virtual/hybrid meetings and we have had positive feedback. My favorite is learning about what people wanted to be when they grew up or first job. Always a conversation starter!

Curious how your meeting /game goes!!  
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Amelia Salmanson, Viral Hepatitis Coordinator Amelia Salmanson, Viral Hepatitis Coordinator
OH! I love all of these "getting to know you" questions!

Yes- Chloe! You will have to update us on how it goes and what you end up doing for games.
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Roza Tammer, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Reporting Epidemiologist at Oregon Roza Tammer, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Reporting Epidemiologist
I did a game similar to the post it game (https://www.jubed.com/Post-It-Note-Games) but I made little cards hanging on lanyards to wear around their neck but hanging down their back so they couldn't see. Each card had a different pathogen on it and a bunch of facts to help guide the question asking/answering. The person who guessed what their secret identity was first won the game - I don't have the cards handy but I think I have a PDF hidden away somewhere if folks want. 
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Roza Tammer, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Reporting Epidemiologist at Oregon Roza Tammer, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Reporting Epidemiologist
Another really quick one is just to go through everyone in attendance and have folks type quick compliments and positive feedback in the chat for them. Not everyone has to chime in for each person to feel appreciated and it can work for small groups and especially works well in virtual meeting platforms
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Leann Liu, Manager of Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit, Harris County Public Health Leann Liu, Manager of Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit, Harris County Public Health
Hi,
This is the list I mentioned in our call today :)

1)    Introduction and check in on how things are going
2)    (Review performance plan)
3)    What other projects or a secondary role are you working on? 
4)    How about your workload? Are there any challenges?
5)    What are your short-term and long-term goals? Or job-related interests? 
6)    How could we support them for you to be successful?
7)    What training/professional development opportunities you would like to have?
8)    Do you have any suggestions for things that could be done better in our program?
9)    Do you feel ok with the way I work with you? Any suggestions?
10)     Do you have any concerns? Do you feel you have a communication channel when you have concerns? 
11)     Any other questions
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Bernice Carr, Epidemiologist, MPH, MS, NJDOH 👍
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Lisa McHugh, Assistant Bureau Director, Bureau of Epidemiology Lisa McHugh, Assistant Bureau Director, Bureau of Epidemiology
At one of our staff days, we asked each staff member to provide a "fun fact" about themselves. This could be anything from a cool car they had, a unique place they visited/lived, a hairstyle gone wrong, a sport they played or an odd job they did. We started this at the beginning of the day and said people could try to coax the fun fact out of people so it really got people talking about themselves. This was a bingo game with people trying to match the fun fact to the person who contributed it. Our team talked about this activity for years afterwards. 
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