Do you want to break up the clumps people come in? That will take a bit longer to count off and move the numbers to different parts of the room.
Otherwise just clump people close to where they are sitting.
Once in groups, everyone gets 1 minute to say their name, their workgroup, the answer to something banal like how they got to work or what they had for breakfast (if it's not obvious like bagels on the company dime) and an answer to some opinion or thought question vaguely topical for the initiative, ....
OR:
Break into groups as above. Within each group, pair up. One minute for first person to introduce self to second, one minute for the reverse. Then go around: each person gets 1 minute to introduce the other half of their pair. I like this one because once I got to introduce the oldest guy in our workgroup: he called everyone male and female "Babe." I said "this is so and so and he has been working in computing since before I was born."
Have fun
DC
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> Last week, at the last minute, the CIO asked me to give a presentation on
> the work I've been doing with a company-wide IT training initiative. Fun!
> It's a sign of power when, at the last minute, you can call on some
> underling dweeb to do something for you and it'll get done, eh?
>
> So, I spoke to 67 of our upper and middle management types, explaining to
> them why they should back this initiative. They didn't need me, really. It's
> an initiative that's backed by the COO and the CIO, so I'm sure that's
> motivational enough for them.
>
> Meanwhile, this week, I have to give another presentation to the rest of the
> dweebs like me -- the dweebs at whom this training initiative is directed.
> I'm trying to come up with some sort of ice breaker for people to do in
> groups of 5-8 for about 10 minutes. If anyone has any suggestions -- either
> something they've used themselves or something they've participated in as an
> attendee, bring it on!
>
> TIA!
>
> shag
>
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