Your team member is resistant to icebreaker activities. How can you encourage their participation?
When you encounter resistance to icebreaker activities, it's essential to approach the situation with empathy and tact. Here are some strategies to encourage participation:
- Personalize the experience. Tailor activities to your team's interests to make them more engaging.
- Offer choices. Give team members a say in which activities they'd like to participate in.
- Highlight the benefits. Clarify how these activities can foster a better team dynamic and improve collaboration.
How have you successfully engaged reluctant participants in team-building exercises?
Your team member is resistant to icebreaker activities. How can you encourage their participation?
When you encounter resistance to icebreaker activities, it's essential to approach the situation with empathy and tact. Here are some strategies to encourage participation:
- Personalize the experience. Tailor activities to your team's interests to make them more engaging.
- Offer choices. Give team members a say in which activities they'd like to participate in.
- Highlight the benefits. Clarify how these activities can foster a better team dynamic and improve collaboration.
How have you successfully engaged reluctant participants in team-building exercises?
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Don't. Shift your frame from ice breakers to purposeful activities related to what you're doing during a session. Forget icebreakers that are just there to create "team building" or "mandatory fun" — flip how you look at this, build the experience, offsite, meeting FIRST then think about what type of opening moments would put people in the right mindset to do what they are going to do together.
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Don't surprise people with the icebreaker or the connection question in the moment. Give them advanced notice of what you will be asking or the activity you will be doing. Speaking from experience, as a huge introvert, I don't like being put on the spot with icebreakers.
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Ice breakers only work if the ice needs to be broken. Explain why you are doing a particular activity and debrief afterwards. Most resistance comes because the participants don't know why you are doing something or how it adds value to the workshop.
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I am not a fan of icebreakers. But I am a fan of synectic and metaphoric activities that introduce key themes, behaviors and skills for the workshop. I often start with an interesting activity that helps folks feel more comfortable with participating in the session rather than with other people.
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They key is know your audience (or team in this instance) and understand why they don’t want to get involved. You can’t please everyone all the time, so find out what it is and maybe just give them some space to warm to it or simply observe? Please also be aware the more you personalise an activity to make it appealing to a type of person, the more you may alienate others. I am not saying don’t, just be careful.
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