How to Utilize Energisers and Ice Breakers for a Team Meeting

Energisers and ice breakers are great tools for developing a team atmosphere when holding employee meetings. Here are examples of team meeting ice breakers that act as energizers to develop employee relations in a group setting.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• icebreakers and energizers
• stopwatch

1. First call your team meeting as you normally would and cover any necessary agendas before beginning your energisers and icebreakers games.

2. Try to make your team meeting as informal and fun as possible by letting employees divide into groups and giving themselves a unique name. Then have each team assign a team leader.

3. To begin your games give each team member two or three icebreakers to use as energisers and assign someone at the meeting to time each team with the stopwatch.

4. Icebreakers can be any fun prop like balls, sticks, beanbags, etc. to use to play games or you might decide on energizer items that are more related to the employees specific work environment.

5. Each team member starts with one of the icebreakers, with the rest remaining in a nearby pile at their feet.

6. The team members then begin using their icebreakers themselves or in conjunction with each other and after so many seconds, another icebreaker is added.

7. The object of the energizers game is to see how long the group can keep the icebreakers in the air before receiving six penalties.

8. The leaders job is to announce a penalty (to create a stress energizer!) when icebreakers hit the floor, and once on the floor, if is not got back into play within five seconds.

9. The team leader keeps a cumulative score during the meetings and energizes the group by loudly shouting out "one", "two", etc.

10. When the team leader counts to a set number, the time is stopped. After some meeting discussion, the group tries to better its record with another attempt using the icebreakers as energizers over again.