It allows people to get to know each other and have a few laughs on the way. It gives the team members a good way of letting other people know them and perhaps even fix some assumptions people might have made. To mix it up, you can have people write down the statements and mix the lies and truths around. Instead of two truths and a lie, people can simply make two lies and one truth. You will just need your group of people, an office space and a pen and paper for each member of the team.
You should divide the people into smaller teams of five or smaller. The teams will be given a topic and their task is to list five of their favorite things on that topic. The topics can be:. Each member can write their top five and once everyone is finished, you take turns to share your favorite things with each other.
The game helps people to get to know each other while having a bit of fun. For example, five of your favourite marketing strategies or so on. If you have enough time, you can also have the smaller teams share their five favourites with the rest of the teams. You want to divide your group into pairs. Each person will have to make a statement reflecting the most negative experience they have had.
When they first make the statement they talk about the negative — what was so bad about the event? Afterwards, they have to focus on the good with the help of the team. Essentially, together with others, they should focus on finding the silver lining — perhaps something good came out of it or the event taught them something valuable.
The bad event or experience can be work related or something personal. Everyone can freely choose what they want to talk about and which event they shall pick.
This beautiful ice breaker game is a great way to get to know people and to create feelings of empathy. It shows that even bad things can be turned into strengths and shows the power of focusing on the positive. As mentioned above, you can have people do the activity in small groups rather than pairs. You can also make the groups think about random negative events losing your first job rather than everyone having to pick an event out of their own lives.
The objective is to come up with a single question that the team finds the best for a situation they have been presented with. In effect, you will be presented with a situation and you only have one question to ask to solve it. Essentially, the question is to find if a person is suitable for a specific situation or to deal with a particular problem. When you have the teams set up, you present them the situation and give them 10 or so minutes to think about the question.
You can then share the solutions with the rest of the group and talk about what others think. The game is a great way to show your creative thinking. It will force everyone to communicate and give their opinions regarding different things — it will help everyone know what each other think.
In terms of space, any kind of office space will do and you can use separate rooms if needed. You, essentially, need blocks that can be stacked and attached to each other in order to create different designs. The organizer of the game should create a Lego or building block structure or design prior to the event.
Ask people to make at least five different points on their chart to represent significant moments in their lives. Tips: This one may take longer than many other activities. It might be good to have people draw their charts beforehand to bring with them. If people are willing to share honestly, this can be a great activity to help your group bond.
Ask your group to share only one to three points on their graphs to save time, or have people share their whole graphs in smaller groups. Description: Each person in the small group receives a piece of computer paper and a pen. Everyone writes a funny or unusual sentence at the top of their paper. Then, each person hands their piece of paper to the person on their left. Now everyone will have a new piece of paper. Each person draws out a picture of the sentence. They fold the paper so only the picture is seen.
The paper gets passed to the left again. This next person will write out a sentence that describes the picture and fold the paper so only the sentence is seen.
The game alternates between people drawing and writing out what they see as they continue passing each paper to the left. The icebreaker ends when each person receives their original paper. Let everyone share their original sentence and the final sentence or picture. Tips: This is a popular icebreaker. It usually produces lots of laughs as everyone shares their papers at the end of the activity. Plan on this game taking minutes.
Description: Have everyone in your group stand in a circle. This creates a human knot. From here, let the group untangle the knot into a circle again. The icebreaker ends when there is no longer a knot.
Tips: Younger people will most likely enjoy this icebreaker more than adults. The game is fun and challenging and will get the group laughing. This icebreaker is fun with a bigger group of people. Plan on the icebreaker taking minutes.
Description: This game requires your group to line up in any type of determined order without speaking to one another. For example, ask your group to line up in order of their birthdays, starting with the earliest in the year.
Or have them line up in descending birth order, from oldest to youngest. The prompt could be anything, as long as there is something they can order themselves by. The game is engaging because they have to figure out how to line up correctly without talking. Tips: This game gives insight into how people operate. You will learn how the people in your group solve problems, who takes a leadership role and who does not, and how different personalities respond to the game.
This icebreaker can be used to launch a study about leadership or how to respond to obstacles— or topics like that. It can also be used to help your group discover how they behave as a group and how they can grow as a group. Description: Set up chairs in a wide circle. Count the number of people at your study and ensure you have one chair less than the total of people.
The game is played by having one person stand in the middle of the circle of chairs. This person states something true about themselves. The person who ends up without a seat must then go in the middle. Tips: Try this icebreaker during warm weather and place chairs outside so there is more room to run.
This icebreaker works best in a large, open space. This game is great for helping people get to know one another. Encourage group members to share their names before sharing their statements.
Description: Break up your small group into two teams. Give a topic for the charades game movies, sports, celebrities, books, etc. Each person writes four to five charade ideas that relate to the topic on slips of paper.
The teams take turns having someone from each team act out as many charades as they can from the slips of paper within a set time limit. The team that has the most correct answers wins the game. Tips: Have someone volunteer to be the timer each time someone acts out the charades.
Description: Ask each group member to give you one interesting or unusual fact about themselves before the group meets. Give everyone in the group a sheet and have them find out whose name goes in each blank. When they find the right person, they must also learn one other fact about that person. This does not need to be written on the paper, it just encourages conversation.
At the end, introduce everyone in the group in the order on the list. Give the person who found all the answers first a prize.
Tips: This icebreaker will work best with people who do not yet know one another well. Plan on this icebreaker taking 20 minutes. Description: You will need a Jenga game.
Cut out small pieces of paper that fit the length of each Jenga block and tape them to each Jenga piece. Then have each group member take a few blocks and write a question on each slip of paper. These questions can vary between light-hearted and deep, but let each person decide what question they want to use.
Examples: How many siblings do you have? If you could see any singer in concert, who would you see? What is your middle name? Assemble the Jenga game. Split your small group into two teams and have each person take a turn removing pieces from the Jenga game. Each time a block is moved, the person must answer the question on the slip of paper.
Continue playing until one team wins the game. Tips: This game is fun with more people. This activity should take minutes. Prompt your group to listen when each person answers the question on their block; otherwise, the game may get loud as people strategize together. It is fun to see the types of questions people write. You may have experienced the awkward silence, the multiple-people-talking-at-once problem or a lack of depth in conversations, but another problem is that it can be a challenge to come up with fun and engaging icebreakers in a videoconference format.
Below are virtual icebreaker game ideas that can help you and your small group get to know one another. Would you rather? The three object hunt Zoom: whiteboard game - write a poem Pick a song to share!
Description: A fun way to keep participants engaged in virtual meetings is utilizing the chat feature in your video conferencing software. Any funny or interesting responses? Ask that person to share more! Description: Ask everyone to spend five minutes running around their home to find objects that represent how they are currently feeling emotionally, spiritually and physically. This activity is suitable for those who like history and as a trainer, it can help you to introduce a bit of imagination to your icebreaker.
There are some great ideas here that I will definitely be incorporating this into my classroom this August! Hi Jess. Great to hear that you will use the classroom training activities. All the best :. Let us know how it goes. Very interesting activities. They are innovative too. I expect that many activities will be in demand repeatedly. Thanks a lot for sharing these wonderful ideas. Participants know each other already. What would be another activity that can be done to get them tuned to the session.
If the participants already know each other then there are several options for ice breakers. I have got lots more on the ice breakers main page. Wonderful ideas. Keep it up. Looking forward for more online teaching ideas. I would love to know, for example, how to keep students engaged throughout the minute session and they remain active throughout and not disappear halfway through the session.
Hi Shalini, I am glad to know that you find these ideas useful. I know, it is harder to keep students engaged online! A way to keep their attention is to keep asking them questions and to engage them throughout the training session with activities and discussions, even more so than you would do for a face-to-face training session. Thank you so much!
Wonderful ideas and I will surely incorporate these in my virtual new session. Hi Gagan. Yes, those activities are great for making virtual lessons more interactive.
Thank you for visiting our site. All the best with your online teaching. The new academic year starts on Monday. We are still going to go on with virtual lessons. Thank you so much because I have found some! Thanks for all these suggestions! Thank you so much…such fun ideas! I was worried about bonding with my students on the online platform. Not anymore! Great ideas! It will help with keeping them engaged in my class as well as give them some ideas to use when they start their own teaching.
Yes, these icebreakers can be good for teaching at all levels and ages. Students have the option to come to school or log in from home. Do you have some suggestions on how to incorporate groups in this way? Zoom Break Out rooms allow you to split your meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. You can choose to split your students into these separate sessions automatically or manually. If you need to visit each room to monitor progress, you may wish to put more students in each room so you have fewer rooms to visit.
These are beautiful activities. Will surely be helpful in making training fun. In the First activity, any specific reason why the participant with the most incorrect wins is the winner. Thank you so much. Hi Sabahat. With the first activity, the more votes you get the more successful you were at tricking the others.
I will add a sentence or two to explain this to update it as I can see I can make this clearer. Thanks for pointing this out. Thanks Sabahat. I agree so grateful you share these activities with us. I am looking forward to trying them next week with my students especially the storytelling icebreaker. Thank you! Hi Lisa. Thanks for sharing!
You'll ask your team to choose their favorite movie, song, T. The question can change every week. This icebreaker helps your team get to know each other even when they work remotely and can spark conversation on what everyone likes or dislikes.
If you're looking for a remote icebreaker that's more of a game, and less discussion-based, you can host a trivia game.
Kahoot is a trivia platform you can use for free hosts up to 10 people. To get started, all you'll need to do is sign up for a free Kahoot account.
Then, you can choose a featured trivia game to play. To run this remotely, you'll want to share your screen with your team. Everyone will need to have a separate device to use so they can enter the game and submit their answers. This is one of my favorite icebreakers because it's a fun way to get to know your team. For this game, have everyone bring in an embarrassing photo and tell the story behind it.
Have your team members share their screen or send a file to the team leader to share with everyone. To make this more interesting, you can have people guess whose photo it is before your team member shares their story.
Doing this icebreaker is a great way to build connections remotely. For this icebreaker, have everyone on your team go around and share a word or phrase that represents how they feel that day. Manager, Christina Perricone , says this is her favorite icebreaker.
It provides a space for participants to bring their entire self to work and it gives the team context for how to support that team member that day," Perricone adds. Take turns showing off the cutest pictures and videos of your pet. The more nonsensical the prompt, the funnier the drawings become. Drawasaurus is one of my favorite online drawing games to play with colleagues.
Players get to choose from three random prompts to quickly interpret and draw their vision. Other players can score more points for identifying the word the fastest and take turns going until the timer goes out.
Thinking off the top of your head is a lot harder said than done in Scattegories. Each round the game will highlight a random letter of the alphabet and let players come up with any noun or phrase that starts with said letter. The best part — players can dispute answers amongst each other to take the win. A perfect icebreaker for your overly competitive colleagues. A rather straightforward ice breaker, team members can share an object they love over Zoom. Have team members share some bucket list items they want to achieve in the future.
Not only can these be inspirational, but they also open the floor for team members to encourage one another to pursue their dreams, too. While dispersed teams may not have the chance to share a handshake or hug, you can still share the love amongst each other in this icebreaker. Shout them out for their helpfulness in a project, for the energy they bring to the team, or for their lovely smile. Making something with your team can be a great opportunity to learn something new and keep decorative mementos in your space to remind you of your team.
Have everyone follow the same instructions to make a craft like simple origami, a drawing, or painting by a designated instructor in the Zoom call or YouTube tutorial. This icebreaker is best suited for new hires who may feel more reserved as they virtually meet the team. Find common ground and get the conversation going with your team members. Have a manager or team leader start the conversation by sharing something they have an interest in, like popular TV, music, foods, or whatever they love to get everyone thinking.
Popcorn it over to the most enthusiastic team member with that same interest and have them share a new one.
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