Open Fist
Teams work better when they find things in common. Stronger teams reduce turnover, increase pleasant interactions, and improve productivity.
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Library of facilitation techniques
Icebreaker Workshop Activities
Ice breaker games to help people get to know each other and promote team bonding.
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True of Me / Spotlight
In gallery view we say something that is true of you (e.g. I have a dog). Everyone that this is true for keeps their camera on; everyone that this is not true for covers their camera. Repeat with a new true statement from someone else in the group.
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Blind Drawing
Blind Drawing is an icebreaker game where one person describes an object the other person must then draw with only verbal instructions as a guide.
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Friendly Flyers
This is an exercise to build up relational and communication skills. While creating paper flyers in teams, you learn about your group members one-on-one as you build paper planes with them. Afterwards, you get to know more about the rest of your group when you play a personality-matching guessing activity.
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Passions Tic Tac Toe
This simple game that explores the concepts from these two quotations:
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you". —Oprah Winfrey.
"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are." —Penelope Lively, novelist
Game Breaks (Word Search) for Online Facilitation
Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting
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The Time Machine
Encourage creative thinking and getting to know each other better with a short round of 'time travel' questions to each of your participants.
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Have you ever...?
This process is used to bring people together, exploring and celebrating the diversity of experiences.
Two Lies and a Truth
This is a well-known and simple ice-breaker, designed to get to know the other members of your team well, as well as practicing your own poker face!
Name Juggling
Name Juggling is another variation of a try-to-learn-everyone's-name but the game guarantees high energy level as well as some strategic thinking.
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Apple, Orange and Banana!
Fun energiser to create energy and fun. Great to use after breaks such as lunch or coffee breaks.
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Human Spectrogram
Applying a linear scale to gather a diversity of perspectives, opinions and responses.