Brief Encounters Icebreaker teambuilding exercise

Brief Encounters Icebreaker Teambuilding Exercise

Conversation Cards. 3 sets of 50 questioncards about Management, Team and Icebreaker - a total of 150 questioncards each containing 2 questions. The text is in Danish. In total 300 questions.

The basic premise for these conversation cards is: The question you ask determines the answer you get.

With the conversation cards, you as a leader and facilitator can:

• Kickstart the meeting.
• Get the participants to get to know each other.
• Synchronize the entire team at once and in about 10 minutes.

How to use the conversation cards

The leader invites everyone onto the floor. The leader has not yet explained what they are going to do.

Only when everyone is gathered on the floor can the leader hand out 1 conversation card to each. The leader now explain that everyone will meet 1 partner at a time. The meeting with the partner looks like this (the leader shows with a participant what the meeting itself looks like).

First, the two greet each other. Then, one person chooses one of the 2 questions on the card. The questioner then listens curiously to the answer. The answer should take about 30 seconds. This is called a short meeting. After the first question and the first answer, it is now the partner's turn to ask and listen.

When they have both asked their one question and finished listening, they exchange cards and can raise the new card in the air as a signal to a new conversation partner, after which a new short meeting occurs. This can continue about 7 times for about 10 minutes. The leader can then end the exercise, collect the conversation cards and ask the group:

• What did you hear your partner answer?
• What did you hear yourself answer?
• What can you say about the questions you have asked?
• What can you also say about the questions you have asked?
• An important point is: The question you ask determines the answer you get.
• What do you think about that sentence?
• What can we learn from it?
• What can we use it for?

Remember that any experience that invites a group to interact, share and create something together can be considered team-building.