Open Fist
Teams work better when they find things in common. Stronger teams reduce turnover, increase pleasant interactions, and improve productivity.
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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The Desert Island
Many of us have played a game similar to this before - if you were stranded on a desert island, what essential items would you choose to survive?
Participants are given a list of items to choose from and must work together to decide which items will help them stay alive.
A great, remote-friendly exercise for a team to work together and share opinions.
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
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.
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.
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!
Have you ever...?
This process is used to bring people together, exploring and celebrating the diversity of experiences.
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.
Human Spectrogram
Applying a linear scale to gather a diversity of perspectives, opinions and responses.
Celebrity Party
Great activity to help people warm up in a new environment.
Apple, Orange and Banana!
Fun energiser to create energy and fun. Great to use after breaks such as lunch or coffee breaks.