It's my turn to provide an icebreaker at our next department meeting, and I want something fun/cool.

Nothing too over the top, as I work with a somewhat conservative group of people.

Whatcha got?

8/16/2007 1:55:56 PM

Go read Dilbert -- it should give you some ideas.

8/16/2007 1:57:00 PM

companies do this sort of thing?

8/16/2007 1:57:21 PM

boy-girl-boy-girl

pass the jolly rancher, no hands.

always worked wonders as an ice breaker in high school

8/16/2007 1:58:56 PM

http://www.meetingwizard.org/meetings/icebreakers.cfm

8/16/2007 1:59:29 PM

http://www.icebreaker.com

8/16/2007 2:01:02 PM

get a couple of cases of beer.

well, that's how we do it anyway.

8/16/2007 2:02:11 PM

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"It's my turn to provide an icebreaker at our next department meeting"

I can't stand places that do this.....it always seems so forced, and if i'm in a meeting, i'm not trying to waste time with that crap.

8/16/2007 2:13:12 PM

^

8/16/2007 2:14:25 PM

Split the group into smaller groups and have each individual group come up with some ice breaker ideas for future meetings.

8/16/2007 2:16:16 PM

walk in with a big block of ice behind your back and break it on the ground.

8/16/2007 2:24:55 PM

I've seen a bunch on some websites, but they didnt really impress me

8/16/2007 2:28:16 PM

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"I can't stand places that do this.....it always seems so forced, and if i'm in a meeting, i'm not trying to waste time with that crap."

8/16/2007 5:53:34 PM

weaboo

8/16/2007 5:53:59 PM

You'd be my friend forever if you brought a hammer, chisel, ice block filled with beverages to a meeting like that and broke the beeotch in half.

However, that is extremely cheesy and lame, and so will be whatever solutions you will find, because if it's forced, it sucks.

8/16/2007 5:58:21 PM

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"Split the group into smaller groups and have each individual group come up with some ice breaker ideas for future meetings."

go with this.

8/16/2007 6:41:47 PM

naked twister gets my vote. really gets ppl to know each other.

8/16/2007 6:46:25 PM

russian roulette?

8/16/2007 7:19:36 PM

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"I've seen a bunch on some websites, but they didnt really impress me"

Do one of them anyway. If they're really bad, you won't be asked to do it again.

8/16/2007 7:41:50 PM

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"weaboo"

bwwahahahah i literally LOLed at this


I also recommend alcohol as Bobby suggested.

8/16/2007 8:40:44 PM

a game of soggy biscuit

8/16/2007 8:42:13 PM

8/16/2007 8:44:46 PM

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"I can't stand places that do this.....it always seems so forced, and if i'm in a meeting, i'm not trying to waste time with that crap."

8/16/2007 9:01:17 PM

alcohol

alcohol must be involved

8/16/2007 9:18:02 PM

go around the room and make everyone name the lamest icebreaker that they have ever had to do

8/16/2007 10:19:05 PM

maybe something with ivory since its corporate and all...

8/16/2007 10:26:33 PM

People love talking about themselves....
Make everyone in the room find a 2 connections with each person to the L & R - they have to talk about themselves to do it 'til another says 'me too'
Lame, but easy

8/16/2007 10:28:14 PM

just pop in the episode of the office where they Review all of Dwight's complaints against jim.

I know I would love you forever (no homo) as a coworker for that.

8/16/2007 10:31:43 PM

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"So.. how 'bout that bottom line?"

8/16/2007 11:54:26 PM

We start all our telecons with 20 minutes of, " hello? are you there? can you here me? ok i see you? oh you can't connect? hello? hello? call me. oh no, i'll call you. its not working. can you see my desktop? hello? you cant hear me?"


I LOL everytime. its rediculous

8/17/2007 9:27:49 AM

You forgot "I'm hearing a lot of background noise. Can somebody go on mute? Whoever is on the cellphone can you go on mute? Hello? I don't think they're listening. Hello?"

8/17/2007 10:50:58 AM

roll a fat blunt an pass that shit around

8/17/2007 10:55:29 AM

If the people don't know each other then get them to write down 3 things on a sheet of paper. 2 of them are true statements and one is a lie. Then the person stands up and reads them out loud and the group tries to decide which statment is a lie. Its a pretty fun game.

Game #2
This game is called the lunar hotel,
For this game you need the following supplies for each group, groups range from any size over 4 people.
50 regular index cards
1 role of regular tape
one ruler
one pair sicssors
markers
The goal of this game is to get the people in the groups to compete and build a lunar hotel that people will want to live in once people start living on the moon. They have 20 minutes to build and decorate their hotel using the listed items. However the hotel will have to withstand a hit from a meteor. This is usually a big book that will be dropped on the hotel from like 4 feet high. Tell the groups that the winning team will get a prize and watch them compete.
The ideal purpose of the game is for all the teams to come together and work as one to create one hotel so they all win. If they don't do that then it will be interesting to see what they come up with.

8/17/2007 12:00:56 PM

at this department meeting, does everyone already know everyone else? or is this something where it will be a group of total strangers?

8/17/2007 12:03:40 PM

We all know each other VERY well.

I dont really see the point of an icebreaker at this point, but it just provides us with a chance to have a little fun and warms everyone to the idea of discussion.

8/17/2007 1:00:24 PM

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"roll a fat blunt an pass that shit around"

8/17/2007 1:14:05 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CxVr2JGaQP8

8/17/2007 1:17:14 PM

play the name game

8/17/2007 1:18:08 PM

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"boy-girl-boy-girl pass the jolly rancher, no hands. "

Haha.

We used to have to do ice-breakers at a youth group thing in high school, 'twas lame.

You should each reminisce about your favorite pro-wrasslin' matches.

8/17/2007 1:25:04 PM

whatever you do, make sure you start by saying "good morning" or "good afternoon" and when the group responds either say it again or say "I can't hear you" and repeat it so they'll say it louder.

8/17/2007 5:47:05 PM

open with "i promise i wont take up too much of your time"

that would automatically make everyone pay more attention cause they could leave sooner

8/17/2007 5:50:59 PM

you could try wearing a dress.

8/17/2007 5:55:46 PM

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"If the people don't know each other then get them to write down 3 things on a sheet of paper. 2 of them are true statements and one is a lie. Then the person stands up and reads them out loud and the group tries to decide which statment is a lie. Its a pretty fun game."

Just to be a dick my three statements would be

[something random]

The first statement is true.

The previous statement is a lie.

8/17/2007 5:59:09 PM

I was on a conference call and about half way through it some idiot (there are like 30 or 40 people on the call all over the country) starts blasting the white album. Takes about 2 mintues for them to stop. Poeple just get retarded. THen you have the people who wear headsets and breath into them. And of course the people who drag things out arguing inane points.

I swear we spent 1 hour aguring over how to extend our current password form 8 characters to 12, HOW THE FUCK HARD IS IT.

(Btw Wolfpackis#1 was propose but rejected :-( )

8/17/2007 7:25:15 PM

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"We start all our telecons with 20 minutes of, " hello? are you there? can you here me? ok i see you? oh you can't connect? hello? hello? call me. oh no, i'll call you. its not working. can you see my desktop? hello? you cant hear me?""

aaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha



"I have a netmeeting/webex/etc/etc. Can you see my screen? *bee-doop* HELLO? Who just joined? Hi, it's Vasiliy from DRM. Oh, Hi Vasiliy. Did you get the IP for the netmeeting? Is Joe on the call? Yeah, I'm here. Oh Hi Joe. Joe did you get my email about feature 6dXyF? *bee-doop* HELLO WHO JUST JOINED THE CALL. Hey Joe, I can't connect. Where's Tim? Do we want to wait for Tim? I'll just send him a text message."


BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

[Edited on August 17, 2007 at 9:54 PM. Reason : this is my life]

8/17/2007 9:51:50 PM

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"go around the room and make everyone name the lamest icebreaker that they have ever had to do"

I think this is actually the best suggestion so far. I think I will use it if I ever get stuck with something like this.

8/18/2007 3:27:44 PM

I would just leave the meeting if they started doing shit like this. waste of time

8/18/2007 3:47:13 PM

10 mins practice in teams

dance-off

8/18/2007 4:12:06 PM

I would start out by having everyone introduce themselves, and then you ask

"what would you say, you do here?"





[Edited on August 19, 2007 at 12:19 AM. Reason : Bob!]

8/19/2007 12:13:15 AM

^ I love that man.

8/19/2007 12:24:20 AM