Real Conversations
COWORKERS TO CONNECT
Do your office conversations make you feel like you’re stuck in a stock photo?
You can sit three feet from someone for years and know nothing past their coffee order. {THE AND} Co-Workers Edition closes that gap without the forced fun, no trust falls, no two-truths-and-a-lie. Each card asks something real, and the team that answers it works together differently than the one that sat through another icebreaker.
199 questions and prompts. One deck. The team-building that doesn’t feel like it.
A Deck Built for Teams To Actually Connect
Gets Past the Coffee Orders
{THE AND} Co-Workers Edition asks the questions that never come up between meetings. Each prompt opens a real conversation with the people you work beside every day, so you leave knowing something more than their job title, and a team that knows each other works together better.
Better Than Forced Team Building
No trust falls, no ropes course, no two-truths-and-a-lie. Just a card and a question anyone can answer, team building people don’t dread and quietly opt out of. Works around a table or over a video call, in five minutes or an hour.
Work-Appropriate by Design
Real without being too personal. The questions go deeper than small talk but never put anyone on the spot in front of colleagues, start light, and no one ever has to share more than they want to.
TURN MEETINGS INTO
BETTER WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Open your next meeting with a card instead of a status update. One real question, before the agenda, and the awkward silence everyone’s used to turns into the part of the meeting people actually look forward to.
The best teams aren’t the ones who agree on everything. They’re the ones who know each other, who’ve found the surprising common ground and can name the differences without tiptoeing. {THE AND} Co-Workers Edition gets a team there one conversation at a time, not through another all-hands about values.
Want A Better Work Culture?
Ask Better Questions
The right question in the room changes how a team talks to each other. {THE AND} at work editions (Coworkers, Team Building, On Racism) are built entirely out of those questions, the ones that get people past the status update and into an actual conversation.
They come from Topaz Adizes, founder of The Skin Deep and an Emmy Award–winning artist, drawn from more than 1,200 real conversations filmed around the world over the last decade. This isn’t a set of icebreakers someone wrote in an afternoon. It’s a decade of studying what makes people open up, distilled into a deck your team can use in five minutes.
Bring it to your next meeting, offsite, or onboarding and find out what your team sounds like when the questions are better.
Booking: Topaz is also available for live experience design, keynotes, and speaking engagements.
FAQs
{THE AND} Co-Workers Edition is a team-building card game from The Skin Deep, made for people who work together. It’s a 199-card deck of questions that get coworkers past small talk and into real conversation, for meetings, onboarding, offsites, and remote teams who want to actually know each other.
Yes, it’s designed for the office. The questions go deeper than “how was your weekend” but never put anyone on the spot or get too personal in front of colleagues. People start with the lighter cards and only share as much as they want to, so it works across a whole team without anyone feeling exposed.
Yes. {THE AND} Co-Workers Edition works just as well on a video call as around a table, one person reads a card, everyone answers, no setup or props required. It’s one of the simpler ways to build real connection on a distributed team without flying anyone anywhere.
Most team-building activities stop at the surface, fun facts, trust falls, two-truths-and-a-lie, then back to work. {THE AND} Co-Workers Edition is a Skin Deep deck, built from over 1,300 real conversations filmed around the world, so it’s made to get a team somewhere real instead of just filling the awkward slot. It’s the team building people don’t quietly dread.
It works from two people up to a full team, one conversation at a time, there’s no rigid group size. Use it to open a meeting with a single card, run a full deck at an offsite, or help a new hire’s team get to know them. Draw a card, read it out loud, and let people answer; that’s the whole thing.
Yes, we offer bulk pricing for corporate and team orders. {THE AND} Co-Workers Edition makes a genuinely good gift for a management team, a department, or every employee in the company, a team-building tool people will actually use, not another branded water bottle. Reach out to our customer service team with what you’re looking for and they’ll be happy to put together an order that works for your team.
