Tag: Icebreaker

Free-Prize-Inside-Icebreaker

Free Prize Inside Icebreaker: Focused Performance Improvement

At the start of any LEAN or training-style workshop, it’s very important to open up the floor to participants and ask them some key questions before launching into the “learning” phase.

Rock Paper Scissors Icebreaker Starfish Taylor

Rock Paper Scissors Icebreaker: Energizing the Masses

Despite the somewhat blurred history of what many see as a juvenile hand game, Rock Paper Scissors has been used for millennia all across the globe.

Yellow Pages Icebreaker Starfish Taylor

Yellow Pages Icebreaker: Mergers & Acquisitions

Today we are living in the crux of the “Information Age”, where the Internet is our go-to resource for limitless knowledge. While the Internet is indeed an unparalleled tool, having a printed volume of systematized information is not obsolete.

Into the Matrix Icebreaker - Starfish Taylor

Into the Matrix Icebreaker

Just like the first weeks in a new project team, where everyone is adapting to a new environment, without their core group of friends, a 3-day meeting or workshop full of unfamiliar faces may host its own level of awkward confrontations.

Three Things in Common Icebreaker: Team Building

Team Building Icebreaker: Finding Three Things in Common

No matter how bold or vast your differences may be with another person, all humans share some common denominators that go beyond gender, race, nationality, and socioeconomic status.

Top Three Icebreaker

Top Three Icebreaker: Guessing the Priorities

Are you a project manager who’s in the midst of solving a complex problem? Building a list of ideas and/or solutions might seem like an easy win, but the tricky part is in narrowing down and highlighting a small set of priorities to focus on. Let’s say, a Top 3.

Family Vacation Icebreaker Starfish Taylor

Family Vacation Icebreaker: Compromising Customer Needs, Creating the Ideal

If you come from a big family, it’s likely you’ve experienced the toils of planning a vacation that suits everyone’s needs and/or desires…naturally, planning a trip [of any size] depends on numerous elements.

Secret Service Icebreaker

Secret Service Icebreaker: Cracking Your Code Name Alter Ego

While plenty of alternative “names” exist for presidents and other prominent figures in politics, in the US, these high-profile men and women are actually required to have a code name, used in lieu of their birth name by the Secret Service.

Supermarket Icebreaker - Starfish Taylor

Supermarket Icebreaker: Blending Products with Personalities

We’ve done numerous workshops lately focusing on improving Customer Experience and we believe this supermarket icebreaker is a great one for a customer focus. It starts with the simple question, “what product are you?”

The Human Face of Big Data

Big Data Icebreaker

We were recently tasked with facilitating and designing a workshop around the topic of Digital Transformation. What will the digital, hyper-interconnected world look like in the coming years?