
Screenshot of May King Tsang‘s #FOMO Creation Session on Zoom as part of Atomicon 2020 Plan your online meeting icebreaker in advance The best ones are linked in some way to the main purpose of your online meeting – so your icebreaker will provide a great warm-up for the themes you’ll be diving into more deeply.They bring people together, create what will become shared memories and your delegates will begin to collaborate early on – setting them up for more task-focused work later.When they are unusual or surprising, fun icebreakers positively ‘disrupt’ delegates’ thinking, get them out of the day-to-day and straight into participating in the session.Benefits of icebreakers in online meetingsįun, well-chosen and facilitated icebreakers bring a number of benefits: But if your online meeting is more of a training session, workshop, team building event, innovation or problem solving sprint, it will need creative facilitation all the way through, and a great icebreaker is definitely an important part of your meeting agenda. If your online meeting is a regular catch-up on the day-to-day, it may be better to get straight to business after some quick hellos.

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