20 Free Ice Breakers for online meetings, workshops, and training.
Awkward silences, tense meetings, busy workdays. These are all situations that can benefit from fun icebreaker questions!
Designed as simple team building activities to help ease employees or groups into a little team bonding, icebreaker questions don’t need to be as scary, or boring as they seem. When an icebreaker is properly executed, it can diffuse team anxiety!
Good icebreaker questions are also the perfect complement to virtual team building for remote teams. When you start a video call with a quick round of team building icebreaker questions for work, you give your people a chance to connect on a personal level.
Here at Facilitated Training, we know that not all icebreaker questions are created equal. That’s why we’ve created 100 icebreaker questions that will be available on our website shortly.
But what about right now?
We have selected 20 random icebreakers that you can download and use right away and put them into this blog post.
These questions are relaxed, fun and simple but will also encourage your participants to give meaningful answers. Icebreakers are great for starting everything from meetings to events because they involve hardly any planning. Print this epic list of icebreakers for easy access. Once you get into the rhythm of using good icebreaker questions, your team will expect them and be excited about them!
Below you’ll find our 20 virtual icebreaker questions, funny icebreaker questions, great icebreaker questions to provoke thoughtful insight, the best icebreaker questions for meetings in the workplace, awkward icebreaker questions, and ‘If You Could’ icebreaker questions. We’ve even added some of our favourite ‘Would You Rather’ questions, which always have the potential to spark great conversation!
Download -> 20 free icebreakers for virtual training & meetings
Tips and insights to using icebreakers.
Conference Call
How do you break the ice on a conference call?
Kicking off a call with an ice breaker of doing a round table of introducing themselves and answer one silly question is a great way to start. One person should facilitate by asking each person on the call to contribute.
How do you introduce yourself in a virtual meeting?
Turn on the camera and smile. Start with your name, where you are from, your title and what you would like to get out of the meeting.
How do you zoom and use icebreakers?
When zooming it is essential to create a friendly environment to encourage collaboration. Having a simple ice breaker to get people talking and sharing is always a good way to start a call
Kick-off your Friday Zoom call with calibrated icebreakers to set the tone. Simple but thoughtful ice breaker cards that bring an element of fun. Avoid excluding people and let everybody feel involved as they listen to the answers. Designed to make people feel comfortable the questions are insightful but don’t require much thought. And best of all, no props or additional resources are required.
How do you have a fun virtual meeting?
Incorporate games is a great way to get people engaging and being involved in a virtual meeting. An ice breaker is a good introduction if new people but games really ‘up it to next level.’
Infuse engagement in Recurring Team Meetings
Recurring meetings can be a drag. You need to think outside the box to get people excited about what you are doing and really buy into the session. There is no better way than starting off with a lighter note to get that human connection flowing. Break down barriers between team members and start creating meaningful relationships.
Create Engaging Online Meetups with Small Groups (including face to face)
Bring a physical interaction to your online meetings by our using our icebreaker cards. They have are business card size, so they won’t take up much room in your training kit.
You simply pick the card at the top of the deck and ask in a round-robin style to the meeting members. These questions are perfect for small groups who want to get to know each other by discovering something random about others.
Using our handcrafted list of 100 ice breaker calibrated questions (soon to be launched), is a sure-fire way to engage people at your next meeting. Be prepared for every online and offline meeting or workshop with a new go-to tool to kick start a meeting.
Let us know what your favourite online icebreaker are!
Looking for other icebreakers and training activities? Check out this fabulous resource!
Here comes new ideas for training games, activities, icebreakers and reviewing learning.
This eBook is perfect for developing employees’ abilities in communication, teamwork, problem-solving, decision making, and more.
Throughout the book, the author offers suggestions on getting the most out of each activity and guidance on selecting and choosing an appropriate activity for the pivotal stages in the learning process:
Getting started with a variety of targeted icebreakers
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Engaging activities designed to have learners’ recap and recall new knowledge, that is led by the learners.
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