Break the Ice! Getting to Know Your Hybrid and Remote Team Members
Whether you are reconnecting with members of your remote team, staying connected, introducing your remote or hybrid teams to each other, or starting and continuing conversations, Stormboard has an Icebreaker Template for you!
The questions in these templates were carefully selected in order to give some insight into the personality of your team members, spark conversations, and learn how individuals like to communicate and share information.
What is an Icebreaker?
An Icebreaker is a facilitation exercise intended to help the members of your group build rapport and learn more about each other. These exercises also have the added bonus of helping you and your team get familiar with Stormboard.
Typically intended to last a few minutes, your Icebreaker is a quick way to introduce your group to each other and jump right into working better together.
Here are some of Stormboard’s Icebreaker Templates.
Meet and Greet
The template has the following sections:
Introduce yourself!
Are you a coffee or a tea person? Do you drink coffee, tea, both, neither?
What’s your hidden talent or skill? What can you do that might surprise the group?
If you could stay one age forever, what would it be? What age would you want to be for the rest of your life? Why?
What do you want to take away from today? What would you like to learn from our meeting?
Where in the World are You?
The template has the following sections:
Who is in our group today? Take a moment to introduce yourself!
Where are you joining us from? Where in the world are you?
Are you a morning person? Are you an early riser? Or are you late to bed?
What’s the best live music you’ve ever heard? Where did it happen? What made it so special?
Getting to Know You
The template has the following sections:
Who do we have in our group today?
Add one truth and one lie.
Everyone in your group adds one truth and one lie to the white space in this section of the template. Then everyone works together to determine which is the truth and which is the lie by placing the sticky notes on the correct side of the pie chart.What’s your most-used emoji? We all have one — what’s yours?
Post your workspace!
Have your team members upload a photo on an image sticky note, or they can use a whiteboard sticky note to draw the space that they are working in.
Four Fun Questions
The template has the following sections:
Who do we have in our group today?
Have you seen a film recently that you would recommend? A classic, new film, etc.?
Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Are you outgoing and chatty, quiet and insightful, somewhere in between?
What’s some great advice you’ve been given? What has really stuck with you?
What do you want to take away from our meeting today?
Introductory Mixer
The template has the following sections:
Introduce yourself!
What are the best and worst gifts you’ve ever received? What gift meant the most to you, and which caught you off guard?
What was the last TV Show or movie that left an impact on you? What are you watching right now?
What topic could you give a 20-minute presentation on without any preparation? Don’t worry, you don’t need to actually give the presentation — we just want to know what you’re passionate about!
What do you expect to take away from today? What are some things you would like to learn by being a part of this team?
Are you interested in getting to know your team better with Stormboard? Access all of the Icebreaker Templates here and get started with a 30-day free trial now!
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