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Team Building Icebreaker Guide

This document outlines steps for a "Five of Anything" icebreaker activity that can be used at meetings to help participants get to know each other better. The steps are: 1) Divide participants into groups of 4-5 people. 2) Have each group member share their top 5 favorite movies, books, or other topic. 3) Optionally, the topic can be tailored to the meeting topic. 4) Designate a note-taker for each group. 5) Have the note-takers report back their group's lists to spark further discussion.

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Team Building Icebreaker Guide

This document outlines steps for a "Five of Anything" icebreaker activity that can be used at meetings to help participants get to know each other better. The steps are: 1) Divide participants into groups of 4-5 people. 2) Have each group member share their top 5 favorite movies, books, or other topic. 3) Optionally, the topic can be tailored to the meeting topic. 4) Designate a note-taker for each group. 5) Have the note-takers report back their group's lists to spark further discussion.

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Five of Anything Icebreaker Steps

1. Divide the meeting participants into groups of four or five people by having
them number off. (You do this because people generally begin a meeting
by sitting with the people they already know best or the people from their
own departments.)
2. Tell the newly formed groups that their assignment is to share with the
members of their group their five favorite movies of all time, or their five
favorite novels or their five least liked films, and so forth as discussed
above.
The topic can be five of anything - most liked or disliked. This icebreaker
helps the group explore shared interests more broadly and sparks a lot of
discussion about why each person likes or dislikes their selected five.
While I generally recommend icebreakers that are related to the topic of
the meeting, five of anything is a quick, fun team building activity that
people really enjoy. No one is asked to leave their conversational comfort
zone and I have never found a participant unwilling to share the answers to
this type of question.
3. You can also use this icebreaker for topical discussion. As another
example, in a session on team building, you might ask, "What are five
dysfunctional behaviors you have experienced when participating on an
unsuccessful team?" Or, "Think about the best team you have ever been
on. What are five key and important factors that made it your best or
most successful team?"
4. Tell the groups that one person must take notes and be ready to share the
highlights of their group discussion with the whole group upon completion
of the assignment.
5. Debrief the team building icebreaker by asking for a volunteer to read their
list of five of anything. Or ask the volunteer to list any movies, for example,
that more than one person had in common and shared as their favorite.
Then, ask each group to share their whole list with the whole group.
Because people are almost always your best source of laughter and fun,
the reading of the lists generates a lot of laughter and discussion. You can
also catch the drift of the conversation in the small groups based on the
transitions made from item to item.

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September 29, 2019

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