Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library

Birthday Roundup!

get-to-know icebreaker teampedia opening team

Birthday Roundup is a get-to-know game in which participants act out simple activities that has to be repeated by other members of the group. It may also be used for learning names.

Bright Blurry Blind

communication collaboration problem identification issue analysis critical thinking

This is an exercise for creating a sense of community, support intra and inter departmental communication and breakdown of “Silos” within organizations. It allows participants to openly speak about current issues within the team and organization.

Broken email

teampedia collaboration communication

The activity shed a light on the importance of collaboration and how often what is clear for us can be confusing to someone else thus the method can be used to stress the effects of team communication, misunderstandings and shared knowledge.

Broken Email

communication collaboration teampedia icebreaker team

This a simple game in which participants play in teams and their task is to replicate an image shown to the first team member as they are set up in a chain. The winner is the first team to correctly reproduce the "email"

Celebrity Party

teampedia icebreaker communication diversity team action

Great activity to help people warm up in a new environment.

Coriolis Affect

teampedia action team teamwork problem solving

Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.

Crazy Handshake

icebreaker get-to-know opening teampedia team

This activity helps people ease in a group and brings out their creativity without a lot of effort.

Diversity Bingo

icebreaker get-to-know opening teampedia action

This game helps participants to get information on each other in a fun, competitive way.

Friendly Flyers

communication collaboration icebreaker diversity teampedia skills

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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