+61 414 638 895 The Easter Reset Your Team Didn’t Know
They Needed 
A Simple Easter Team Motivation Activity That Actually Works
Charlotte messaged me last week.
Not a long message. Not dramatic.
Just:
“Got anything simple I can try with the team this Easter?”
I could picture her straight away. Calendar squeezed into a four-day week. Deadlines still marching forward like nothing’s changed. A team that’s showing up… but not quite there.
You’ve probably seen that version of your team too.
Not disengaged. Not resistant.
Just… stretched.
This is exactly where a simple team motivation activity can make a difference.
And in those moments, the instinct is often to do more. Add another touchpoint. Another plan. Another push.
But Easter has a different rhythm.
It invites a pause. A reset. The kind that doesn’t come from doing more—but from doing something smaller, more intentional.
So instead of giving Charlotte something heavy, I gave her a simple team motivation activity: the 1-2-3 Easter Egg Challenge.
It’s a short, almost deceptively simple exercise that helps people reconnect with how they show up—especially when things feel a bit messy.
Let's get started...
Step 1: Set it up (keep it simple)
Take a few minutes before your next team touchpoint. Grab some sticky notes. Or open a blank board if you’re remote and write down a handful of simple commitments. Nothing lofty. Nothing that sounds like it came from a strategy deck.
More like:
Fold them up and drop them in a bowl.
Step 2: Bring your team in
When you’re together, keep the tone light. You might say something like,
“Let’s try something small this week. No extra work—just a different way of showing up.”
Then each person picks a note.
Now here’s where this becomes more than a game.
Instead of rushing on, pause and get curious together.
Ask:
You’ll notice something shift here. The conversation becomes real. Grounded. A little more honest.
Then give it a gentle nudge of accountability: “What’s one way you’ll know you’ve done this?”
We are looking for a signal rather than a report.
Step 3: Let it play out during the week
This part is intentionally quiet. No dashboards. No chasing updates.
Just the occasional nudge:
It’s less about tracking and more about noticing.
By the end of the week, bring everyone back together for a short reflection.
You don’t need a long debrief. A few questions will do:
Maybe you hear “I handled that conversation better than I normally would.” Or “I didn’t react straight away this time.” Often, someone will say something that indicates that your team embraced this moment to reset how they’re showing up with each other.
During busy and fragmented weeks, we focus so much on what needs to get done that we lose sight of how we’re doing it. This challenge gently brings that back into view. It gives people permission to adjust by 1% - and small shifts add up faster than most big initiatives.
If the room still feels a bit quiet…
One thing that might happen is that the activity works, but some people didn’t quite know what to say in the moment.
This is completely normal.
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Think of it as having a few good questions in your back pocket when the energy dips.
Try this Easter team motivation activity this week and see what happens when you give your team just a little space to reset—not the work, but how they meet it.
Sometimes, that’s all it takes to bring the energy back.
Eva is one of the masterminds behind Approach Services' blog and The 6 Cents of Change. She is an innovator, trainer and change manager. Her work has been published in the Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research. In her spare time, she enjoys camping with her two little boys and permaculture gardening.
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