Icebreakers - What Does It Mean?


Objectives

To get participants to offer their opinions on the meaning of words and to promote discussion in the group.

Method

Place the following list of words a flipchart and ask each participant to chose one word and discuss what it means to them.

Note: You can substitute other words to suit the purpose of your training event.

Teams Success
Work-Life Balance
Change Happiness
Vision
Leadership Friendship
Freedom
Trust Faith
Hope

Encourage participants to discuss the meaning of words and how we all can have a different meaning for the same word.

Appropriate Time Required

Flexible, dependent on group size.

Approximate time 15 minutes though you may wish to use this exercise to introduce concepts that will be running through the training event.


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