How to Use Ice Breakers for Team Meetings to build Teamwork

Instructions

Step1

The team meetings begins the ice breaker excercise with each person getting in a large circle.   Each team member starts off by taking a balloon, with the rest of the balloons in a nearby pile.  Everyone at the team meetings begins bouncing and hitting their balloons in the air to each of the other team menbers in the circle. Every five seconds, another balloon is added to the team.

Step2

The object is to see how long the group can keep the balloons bouncing in the air before receiving six penalties. A penalty is announced loudly (to create stress!) by the team leader when a balloon hits the floor, or once on the floor, if is not got back into play within the group in five seconds.

Step3

The team meeting leader keeps a cumulative score by shouting out "one", "two", etc. When the leader gets to "six", time is stopped. After some discussion, the group tries to improve teamwork to better its record with another attempt.

Things You’ll Need:

• Two to three inflated balloons per person

• stopwatch or clock with second hand timer
  

Tips & Warnings

• This promotes teamwork for the group and also gives each individual group member a chance to improve together as a team.
• these ice breaker team meetings can get very loud and will be a lot of FUN as well as encourage teamwork and boost morale!
• make sure each team member has at least 2 or 3 balloons or 3 times as many balloons as persons in a teams group or the excercise will prove too easy