To play, you simply ask each person to brainstorm three "facts" about themselves -- two of the facts will be true, and one will be a lie. I have three brothers. I ziplined in Switzerland once. FYI, I have two brothers, not three, so that's the lie.
Unfortunately, I did audition for Zoom. Two Truths and a Lie is a fun and engaging game, and more importantly, it can help your team learn facts about one another, so they can begin forming deeper bonds. This ice breaker lets individuals ease up and have a little fun without a hassle. If you have more time on your hands, have the pairs split up after showing off their super cool shake and make even more creative ones with new partners.
Asking fun questions is an easy and effective ice breaker game. To play, simply go around the room and have each person provide an answer to a fun question. The questions are up to you, but if you're stuck, here are a few ideas:. These questions serve two purposes -- first, they allow your coworkers to get into a sillier, more creative mindset.
Second, they encourage conversation on topics typically reserved for outside the office, which enables members of your team to get to know one another on a deeper level.
Meg Prater , Sr. Marketing Manager of the HubSpot blog, says "When I first started including ice-breaker questions in our weekly team stand-up meetings, the experience was … cringeworthy. It felt like exactly what it was: organized fun. But we kept at it. I listened to feedback and tried to incorporate it into better ice breakers. Keeping the ice breakers inclusive keeps everyone engaged. This ice breaker can promote team bonding, and it's one of the easier options on the list.
Simply choose a brief personality quiz on your phone or computer if you're stuck, here's a list , and pull it up on a projector or send the link to everyone. Once everyone has completed the personality assessment, have each colleague mention one thing they agree or disagree with from their results.
This game allows your team members to gain a new perspective on their peers, and it's also a fun and easy way to get an interesting conversation started. Have everyone write a unique, strange, or unexpected fact about them on a piece of paper. Then, put the pieces of paper into a hat and mix them around. Pull from the hat and read each fact.
Allow the team to try and guess who wrote it. After they guess, ask the employee who wrote the fact to identify themselves and give any further context if necessary. This could be a great way to get to know surprising new things about your teammates.
To play, you simply divide your team into groups of four and give each group 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and a marshmallow.
Whichever team can build the tallest structure, wins -- the trick is, the marshmallow must be on top. There are a few reasons this game works as both a great ice breaker and a team-building exercise. First, the most successful teams are the groups of people who don't spend time competing for power. The game forces your colleagues to work collaboratively when brainstorming potential solutions. Second, the Marshmallow Challenge encourages people to think quickly and offer alternative solutions when their initial idea fails.
With the Marshmallow Challenge, you can strengthen your team's brainstorming and problem-solving skills, and your team can also have some fun. A win, win. At HubSpot, we conduct a scavenger hunt for new hires on the first day of their training. It's fun and encourages collaboration, but additionally, it can help employees learn their way around the office. Fortunately, you can conduct a scavenger hunt for your team even if they've worked at your office for years. Simply split up your team into groups, and give each group a shortlist of items to find -- if you work in a smaller space, maybe you can hide some funny items around the office ahead of time.
A scavenger hunt is also an exceptional opportunity for cross-department interaction. Consider reaching out to managers from other departments and creating groups of employees who don't often get to work together.
This game is simple and meant to energize your team. Get your colleagues in a circle and ask one volunteer to sit or stand in the middle. Tell the volunteer that they can not laugh or smile, regardless of what happens.
Then have each other colleagues take turns telling the volunteer a work-appropriate joke. The goal of the volunteer is to hear a joke from every colleague around the circle, while the goal of the other team members is to make the volunteer laugh.
This icebreaker can be helpful in new-employee or management training to lighten the pressure of starting a new job. It can also be helpful as a way of lightening the mood on teams that regularly deal with stressful projects or situations. In this game, you ask players to identify ways to solve the problem opposite to their current problem. For example, if your goal is to increase customers at your retail store, then you would ask people to solve the anti-problem: How do you decrease customers at your retail store?
This game is a simple way to generate multiple ideas and build on them. Distribute a large index card to each player and ask them to write down an idea. Have players pass their index card to the right or fold it into a paper airplane and fly it to another participant. Read the idea on the index card just received and add an idea inspired by the original idea. Continue the process until there are multiple ideas on each card. In this game, players identify why a project failed miserably before the project begins.
I have personally tested them and refined them to function in a professional context, and I will give you step-by-step instructions for each one. Feel free to shoot an email — always happy to chat. This is a very physical and fun teambuilding game, perfect for morning meetings — just make sure people have had enough coffee and are at least three steps apart! After minutes, things should start to calm down and everyone should be syncing in the same position.
This is a fun teambuilding game you can use to get people to open up, share, get to know each other better, and get active and wake up in the meantime! This deep and fun teambuilding game comes from Marijn Vissers of improphondo — credit goes to him and to the Bring a brick podcast , where I first heard about it. Have you ever been in a meeting in which people are physically there but all they do is look at their phones?
What a waste of time and energy! These team meetings could be so much lighter, shorter and effective if everyone actively listened and focused — so here are four fun teambuilding games to play just before a meeting to help people focus and listen! The goal of this teambuilding game is to have people focus on what they hear and on finding the right moment to talk.
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