Icebreaker Session : An ice breaker is an activity, game, or event that is used to welcome and warm up the conversation among participants in a meeting.
Activity 1: Form Small Teams and ask them to discuss one common interest among group members. They would talk within themself and end up in one common interest. This should be done within 60 Seconds.
Again the same process is repeated for 60 seconds by combining team together and finding their common interest.
I.E. Suppose there are 30 people in the room and we are dividing 5 teams with 6 members in each team we would come up with common interest for 6 members in team in the first 60 seconds and we would come up with common interest for 12 members after combining team in the second 60 seconds.
Common interests could be anything like food, sports, going for a walk, dislikes, or horror movies.
At the end of 60 seconds, one team member should let others know what is the common thing is shared by the team members.
Activity 2: Ask the client about them and one secret.
Crowd Storming: Crowdstorming is a massive collaborative brainstorming session with a large community of people. With crowd storming, you tap into ideation—or the collection of ideas from a group of people—and leverage it to solve a specific issue.
Activity 1: Take sticky notes and ask the 30 members in the room to write an idea in a few words. The idea could be anything I.E Openness and collaboration, 4Hr work week, Team Outing, Pair Programming, Regular connect with clients. You would give 30 seconds to think so the members would write their ideas on a sticky note with their names on top. Once they are done we would play music and make them take walk in the room.
Once the music is paused we would hand over the sticky notes to a random person who is next to them and ask for a rating. The other person reads the idea and writes the rating on a sticky note and hands it back to the person to whom it belongs to and vice versa. The rating could be 1 to 5. The same process is repeated by playing and pausing music three times and getting their ideas rated thrice by three different persons.
Now all the 3 ratings from 3 individuals would be summed. The crowd storming boards would have 3 sections.
<----------1-5--------->|<----------5-10--------->|<----------11-15--------->
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Collect all the sticky notes and post it in the appropriate section. The Stickies in sections 11-15 could be collected and ideas could be discussed and elaborated with the members who wrote in as a group in the room.
Back to Back Drawing : You would make the team members stand in line and the last person to pick a chit from a lot that has simple drawings. The last person in the group should guide the before one by drawing at their back. This continues till the first person draws the figure on board.
While doing this using paper and a marker to draw would be effective. Try to get Plastic Sheets that could be used to place the paper while drawing on someone’s back since using markers on someone’s back may end up with creases or strains in their shirts. The drawing in chit should be simple shapes and not complex ones.
Below are a few drawings that could be used.
Chinese whispers Make people standin line. The message should be read by last person and communicated to the before person in action. It should be simple phrases from things around them in the room. I.E Temperature is hot, I dont know, Salt and pepper, Its Sunny outside. The first person in the line should come back to the last person and convey what he understood.
Other Things to be checked before Client Arrival:
- WiFi – Check whether the wifi is connecting and available to them in your mobile before they arrive
- Check the TV connectivity for conference call incase needed. Also do dry run if possible with some one at onsite
- Availability of water bottles in Room.
- Room Temperature and AC
- Some mild music which could be played when they enter the room
Casual Conversation Questions to Ask
- How is your flight
- How do you like the city