International Women’s Day game for work: Celebrate the women who shape your team.
On 8 March, teams everywhere mark International Women’s Day. Crowdboard turns it into something the whole team takes part in: a game-show board on the TV, two teams buzzing in from their phones, and questions about women who inspire your colleagues, in their own words.
When: 8 March.
Free for up to 6 phones. No card needed.
Why it works
In your colleagues’ words
Send a survey before the day. The women your team names, and the qualities they admire, become the board.
A conversation, not a lecture
Every answer on the board is a name or an idea someone can talk about. The game starts the conversation the day is for.
Office and home together
Share the board in Teams, Zoom or Meet, and colleagues in other offices or at home buzz in from their own phones, which show the board as well.
Nothing to set up
It runs in a web browser on the host’s laptop, the TV and every phone. Players scan the code on the screen, type a name and pick a team.
Questions to ask before the day
Put these in a survey. There are no answers here on purpose: your team’s own answers make the board.
- Name a woman who changed the world
- Name a woman in science people know
- Name a woman from history people learned about at school
- Name a famous woman athlete
- Name a quality of a great leader
- Name something that makes a workplace fair
- Name something that helps people balance work and family
- Name a skill you learned from a woman you work with
They’re filled in for you to change before you share the link.
How to run it
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A week or two before: ask
Make a survey from the questions below, change any you like, and share the link in your team chat. Colleagues answer on their phones in a minute, with no account and no name.
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The day before: make the game
Turn the survey into a game in a few clicks: the answers people gave most become the board. Add a ready-made round or two from the question bank if you like.
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On the day: play
Put the board on the office TV or share your screen, and let phones join from the code. Two teams guess what the team said, and buzz in from their own phones.
Questions hosts ask
How do we keep it respectful?
Keep the questions about people and qualities your team admires, as in the list below, rather than jokes. Read the answers before the game, and leave out any you wouldn’t show on the board.
Can we add a round about women in our industry?
Yes. Write your own questions in the game editor, with the answers you choose, and mix them with your survey’s.
How many people can play?
Any number of people can watch and shout answers. Up to 6 phones can buzz in on Free, 20 on Pro and 40 on Team.
Celebrate together, in a game.
Start a free game now, or see it all on one screen first.