icebreakers, teambuilding exercises

Icebreakers and Team Building Games &

Exercises

 

By

 

Gregory P. Smith, MS


 

Get Your Meetings Off to a Great Start!

 

Over 64 Icebreaker Games and

Teambuilding Activities Designed to:

  • Make your classes and meetings fun! 

  • Make your meetings productive, motivating and exciting!

  • Improve communication

  • Foster creativity and innovation

  • Help resolve conflicts between people

  • Build strong team building skills

  • Enhance cohesiveness

  • Recognize everyone's unique talent and abilities

  • Sharpen problem-solving skills

  • Save Yourself Time!

Break the Ice and Make Your Meetings Come Alive

 

I have been a professional speaker, consultant, and trainer for over ten years. In the hundreds of classes I have taught, I learned one simple truth -- people learn quicker if you make classes and meetings fun and interesting.

As a result, I have compiled my favorite exercises and techniques into a 70-page book. It is cram-packed with innovative ideas and exercises to make your meetings, classes, and workshops come alive and make you a HERO with your group.

One of my favorite teambuilding games is the "Terrorist Toxic Explosive Situation." This is a easy to perform exercise for both adults or teenagers. The goal is to decontaminate a can of "toxic" popcorn that has been placed by terrorists. Your team has to quickly come up with a plan of action, assemble tools and equipment, transfer the material into a "safe" container before the "toxic" substance explodes. A great game to identify the doers, thinkers, and how important it is to have a good plan. Comes with a debriefing questionnaire to help people understand what went right and what went wrong. A million laughs!

 

This Icebreaker Book Is a Great Resource For:

 

  • Business meetings

  • Corporate team building

  • Leadership training

  • Church groups

  • Retreats

  • Sorority get-togethers

  • Teachers

  • Team training

  • Creative problem solving

  • Planning sessions

 

Greg Smith

Author, Trainer & Consultant

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Section 1 - Quick and Easy Team Icebreakers


Twenty-seven different activities to help you keep meetings and your teams energized including:

  • A Great Day for Hats!

  • Letters and Names

  • This is Ridiculous!

  • The Napkin Game

  • Name that Person Ball Toss

  • This Is Me!

  • Introduce the Person Next To You

  • Yep

  • Want Ads

  • Toilet Paper Tango

  • Truths or Consequences

  • Secret Agent

  • Role the Die

  • Empty Chair

  • Playing Card Introductions

  • Personal Emblems

  • Team Crests

Section 2 - Creative Brainstorming Icebreakers

  • Dollar Exchange Idea

  • A Bag Full of Money

  • Story Boards

  • The World's Best Place to Work

  • The Car

Section 3 - Communication Icebreakers

  • The Paper Communication Exercise

  • Can You Follow Directions?

  • Balloon Game

Section 4. Problem Solving Icebreakers

 

Many different exercises to help people brainstorm and think creatively including: 

  • Reverse Brainstorming

  • Gordon/Little Group Technique

  • Advantages/Disadvantages

  • Consensus Mapping

  • Nominal Group Technique

  • Osborn's Brainstorming

Section 5 - Team Building Icebreakers

 

Several stimulating exercises designed to get groups of people working together. Each exercise lasts 15-45 minutes.

  • Co-Operation

  • Crash in Piranha Valley

  • Puzzle

  • Golf Ball in the Bag

  • Space Mission to the Moon

  • Torpedo Weapons Loading Exercise

  • Scavenger Hunt

  • Terrorist Toxic Explosive Situation - A fun and suspenseful situation where your team has 30 minutes to "decontaminate" a container of "explosive" popcorn. They can only use equipment you provide. (See picture on the right side of the page. MY ALL TIME FAVORITE!!

Section 6 - Teambuilding Case Studies

 

Five case studies to help your team sharpen their problem-solving and analytical skills. I have used Heartbreak Hotel to train people to identify leadership problems and customer service breakdowns.

  • Heartbreak Hotel

  • Can You Help Mary?

  • Dictator or Delegator?

  • BOHICA Airline Company

  • What Good Managers Must Do

Section 7 - Funny Stories Icebreakers

Funny stories to use in your training programs you can read to your group that will keep them in stitches.  Great openers or closers for speeches or training programs.

  • The Art of Raising Pigs

  • New Restroom Policy

  • Guidelines for Casual Dress Days


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BONUS #1  Innovative tips to energize your teams: Everyone has had a bad hair day, but how about a bad tie, bad hat or bad shoe day? More and more companies are putting together team contests and competitions. Another company sponsors an annual turkey bowl. Here is a special report containing 20 different and innovative tips to energize your workplace and build more fun at the office.

 

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