Best and Worst
This activity could easily break the ice at the beginning of a workshop, enabling participants to get to know each other in a fast process.
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Mirror Exercise
In pairs in front of the class to demonstrate, then everyone.
Interview
The interview is a good warm up for every training or workshop session. Playful start in which the participants will start to communicate with and come to know each other, directing the thinking toward the topic of the day. It is usually a very cheerful activity.
Az interjú egy jó bemelegítés, jégtörő minden tréninghez vagy workshophoz. Játékos kezdés, amelyben a résztvevők elkezdenek megismerkedni és kommunikálni egymással, miközben a gondolataikat már a nap témája felé irányítjuk.
Wet dog (Crazy 8's)
Count fast down from 8 to 1 while shaking each body limb as a group
Fitness-Kreis
Das Teamspiel ist einfach anzuwenden und bringt den Kreislauf sehr zuverlässig in Schwung. Wenn man das Teamspiel am Anfang eines Workshops zum wach werden macht, ist es ein subtiler Hinweis, dass jeder etwas beitragen kann und sich nicht in eine Konsumhaltung fallen lassen kann..
Near and Far
Near and Far is a wonderful warm up game that provides excellent avenues to build connections and to discuss various issues of corporate culture and dynamics. I have used it in conferences and it is suitable for small, medium, and large groups.
Hot Spot
group game where one person sings in the middle and is tagged out
Kitty Cat Career
One at a time, players step to the center of the circle and pretend to be a cat engaging in some sort of occupation. Other players try to guess what occupation it is. The winner is the next to step into the center.
Break-out Room Tag
Everyone plays tag, using breakout rooms in Zoom
Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ)
It doesn’t matter where you work and what your job role is, if you work with other people together as a team, you will always encounter the same challenges:
- Unclear goals and miscommunication that cause busy work and overtime
- Unstructured meetings that leave attendants tired, confused and without clear outcomes.
- Frustration builds up because internal challenges to productivity are not addressed
- Sudden changes in priorities lead to a loss of focus and momentum
- Muddled compromise takes the place of clear decision- making, leaving everybody to come up with their own interpretation.
- In short, a lack of structure leads to a waste of time and effort, projects that drag on for too long and frustrated, burnt out teams.
Replace all open discussion or brainstorming with a structured process that leads to more ideas, clearer decisions and better outcomes.
When a good process provides guardrails and a clear path to follow, it becomes easier to come up with ideas, make decisions and solve problems.
This is why AJ&Smart created Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ). It’s a simple and short, but powerful group exercise that can be run either in-person, in the same room, or remotely with distributed teams.
Remote Fitness Check
Worum gehts:
Du suchst nach einem Energizer für deinen virtuellen Workshop? Dieses Energizer Spiel ist wirklich zum Aufwachen, denn es wird sportlich. Das geht überraschend gut per Webcam und ich habe schon Gruppen richtig ausflippen sehen. Jede:r Teilnehmer:in kann eine Bewegung vormachen, dadurch lastet weniger Druck auf dem Moderator:in des virtuellen Workshops, das er die Teilnehmer „zwingt“ jetzt Sport zu machen. Durch die Bewegung werden Teilnehmer deutlich wacher, weil man in den meisten virtuellen Workshop lange Zeiten unbeweglich sitzt.
Birthday Lineup
This is a simple warmup game where people use non-verbal communication to organise themselves into lines based on the give criteria