Ideas for Ice breakers in business meetings
Remember when you were a kid in school? Every time you were in a new class most of your teachers would do some kind of ice breaker activity to get to know the class. The exception being that most likely you already knew all of the kids because you had been going to school with them since you were five. So it was never awkward. Too bad it can’t be like that with corporate team building. Whether it be management training or sales training or anything in between below are a few ways to break the ice.
*A great ice breaker for a leadership training session might be asking everyone a time in their life when they first exemplified leadership skills. It could be a good way to lead into conversation topics in the training session.
*For getting to know one another in a business training arena a good idea is to do some interviewing of people in the seminar. Break people off into pairs and give them a set of ten questions that are of neutral topic. After they interview each other tell them to introduce their partner to the entire session. It’s a good way to get to know each other a little better.
*Customer service training sessions and seminars could benefit from an ice breaker where people are forced to talk to a lot of different people in the group. Make up a list of things like find a person born in the Midwest, or a person with at least three siblings. Then let the group loose with the list on this get to know you scavenger hunt.
No matter what type of ice breaker you choose just remember a little planning goes a long way. As long as you get things prepared in advance the ice breaker activity should be a success.
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