Team
Building
Ice
Breaker
Are
you looking for a new team building ice breaker to try
out on your staff?
The one below looks fast, easy and
fun.
Team Building Icebreaker
Steps
1. Divide
the meeting participants into groups of three or four
people by having them number off. (Do this because
people generally begin a meeting by sitting with the
people they already know best.)
2. Tell the newly formed
groups that their assignment over the next five minutes
is to find ten things they have in common, with every
other person in the group, that have nothing to do with
work. Tell people
no body parts (we all have legs; we all have arms) and
no clothing (we all wear shoes, we all wear pants). This
helps the group explore shared interests more
broadly.
3. Tell the groups that one
person must take notes and be ready to read their list
to the whole group upon completion of the
assignment.
4. Ask for a volunteer to
read their whole list of things in common first. Then,
ask each group to share their whole list with the whole
group. Because people are your best source for laughter
and fun, the reading of the lists always generates a lot
of laughter and discussion. You can also catch the drift
of the conversation in the small groups based on the
transitions made from item to
item.
Source:
Susan M.
Hearthfield
