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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 19, 2018 16:16:29 GMT
The one I remember best was everyone at the table shared their most embarrassing moment. It was hysterical! Then a spokesperson person from each group shared the funniest one from the group. I still remember some of the stories 30 years later! ^^^ now see, as an introvert perfectionist who is hyper-self-critical, this sounds AWFUL to me. I would NOT want to tell perfect strangers my most embarrassing moment; I hate feeling like people are laughing at me! (it's hard enough for me to talk about that kind of stuff with my counselor, lol...) So I agree with sharlag ; make sure it's something more on the 'light' or 'random' side of things, so people can't take it the wrong way. ETA: and that cookie conference sounds amazing! (I'd volunteer to be a taste tester, if they needed any of them... )
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Post by littlemama on Sept 19, 2018 16:26:22 GMT
Having to do any of these would make me a one time attendee.
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Post by idahopea on Sept 19, 2018 19:14:52 GMT
The one I remember best was everyone at the table shared their most embarrassing moment. It was hysterical! Then a spokesperson person from each group shared the funniest one from the group. I still remember some of the stories 30 years later! ^^^ now see, as an introvert perfectionist who is hyper-self-critical, this sounds AWFUL to me. I would NOT want to tell perfect strangers my most embarrassing moment; I hate feeling like people are laughing at me! (it's hard enough for me to talk about that kind of stuff with my counselor, lol...) So I agree with sharlag ; make sure it's something more on the 'light' or 'random' side of things, so people can't take it the wrong way. ETA: and that cookie conference sounds amazing! (I'd volunteer to be a taste tester, if they needed any of them... ) Just to ease your fears a bit, no one shared anything THAT personal...a wig that fell off in a play, a broken zipper that had to be pinned together for the rest of the day, one person wore 2 different colored shoes after getting dressed in the dark, etc., but it was the way people told the stories that made them funny. No one was mean to the others for the stories they shared. I know I chose something that was a mild embarrassment, not something I would be mortified to share with coworkers. I'm sure if someone said they didn't want to share, no one would have made them.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 19, 2018 19:21:03 GMT
I'm sure if someone said they didn't want to share, no one would have made them. that's good... I've been in some day-long interpersonal communication seminars (due to company re-organizations) and they got pretty ugly a number of times- I felt soooo bad for the poor facilitator who got stuck teaching our re-organized department (I was glad I had to leave early to get a CROWN done, if that tells you anything).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 19:33:46 GMT
Me too. I once attended a two-day course for writing risk assessments, the teacher stated right at the beginning he wouldn't be doing any icebreakers cos who wants to start the day off by being mortified? No one that's who.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 19, 2018 20:15:21 GMT
The one I remember best was everyone at the table shared their most embarrassing moment. It was hysterical! Then a spokesperson person from each group shared the funniest one from the group. I still remember some of the stories 30 years later! ^^^ now see, as an introvert perfectionist who is hyper-self-critical, this sounds AWFUL to me. I would NOT want to tell perfect strangers my most embarrassing moment; I hate feeling like people are laughing at me! (it's hard enough for me to talk about that kind of stuff with my counselor, lol...) So I agree with sharlag ; make sure it's something more on the 'light' or 'random' side of things, so people can't take it the wrong way. ETA: and that cookie conference sounds amazing! (I'd volunteer to be a taste tester, if they needed any of them... ) Everybody got to taste all of the samples and then vote for their favorite recipe in each category. There were four vanilla sugar cookies, four chocolate sugar cookies and four specialty flavors. At the end we got a recipe book with all of the recipes! It was really cool. And now I want to bake cookies, LOL.
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Post by AllieC on Sept 19, 2018 23:50:28 GMT
We did one recently at work that wasn't too bad (and I'm a supreme introvert). It was a list of "find someone who": was in the military, is an only child, speaks more than one language, has a pet that isn't a dog or a cat, has lived in another country, etc. All we had to do was write someone's name in each space. Some people got involved in interesting conversations and didn't move on to others, while others buzzed around frantically trying to complete the whole list. Works either way and gets people talking. I was going to suggest this one. We played it only yesterday at a conference. It was a "bingo" type game. Like you said, some people started chatting and didn't move on (which is OK) and others went around the room finding all their answers.
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Post by danalz on Sept 20, 2018 2:34:24 GMT
I absolutely HATE stuff like this It would def make me NOT come next time I agree. I'm an introvert with anxiety and I hate icebreakers. If I knew there would be icebreakers at every meeting I would never be back. At least make it optional to participate. Just reading these ideas makes me freak out. No stupid games.
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