The first and last few minutes of any training session are vital - this is where you set the tone, get people motivated and into their learning state, and at the end, get them to review, reflect and reinforce their learning. Icebreaker and ending activities can make all the difference to a training session, transforming it from ordinary to extraordinary!
Best of Icebreakers and Endings has been selected to give you brilliant tools for these crtical sessions.
There are 36 icebreakers and 64 endings - all carefully chosen to provide you with the widest range of application across a broad spectrum of training situations.
Use icebreakers to:
- Relax and release tension
- Mix up the group
- Build trust and honesty
- Set the pace or tone
- Create the right learning state
- Share learning objectives
- Get to know each other
- Share what they already know
A treasure chest of activities that will transform your training ... ensuring that you get off to the best possible start, and leave your participants with a memorable ending!
ICEBREAKERS:
1. Pictorial introductions
2. Walk the plank
3. Coat of arms
4. Personal collage
5. The Sunday roast
6. An appropriate gift
7. Pleased to meet you
8. Character from literature, history or television
9. Last one standing
10. Coin exchange
11. You shall go to the ball
12. The Jamesian mayonnaise
13. The tried and tested icebreaker
14. Conversation over coffee
15. The nail challenge
16. Fact or fiction?
17. Colours of the rainbow
18. Word definition
19. The debate
20. The e-mail message
21. Everybody up
22. Spic and span
23. Bean bounce
24. Four words
25. Chinese charades
26. Twelve items
27. 5, 10, 15, 20
28. The three snowflakes
29. Song lines
30. Animal farm
31. The lottery game
32. Adjectival intros
33. Tattoo
34. Circuit breaker
35. Five degrees of separation
36. Second impressions
ENDINGS:
37. If you painted your life
38. The cracked pot
39. Fashion show
40. Compliments
41. You must remember this
42. The wise old manager
43. Recipes
44. Resents and appreciates
45. Icing the cake
46. Creative review
47. Fortune-tellers
48. Something old, something new
49. Three wishes
50. Try again
51. Hike who?
52. Symbol of learning
53. It takes two
54. String of events
55. Ending on a positive note
56. Cartoon review
57. Tongue-twisters
58. Tree of learning<>
59. Journey log
60. Secret concepts
61. Similes
62. The perfect cut
63. DIY quiz
64. My vision
65. Snap
66. Review skit
67. Talking behind my back
68. Word shapes
69. Passport to learning
70. Closing time
71. Lifeline
72. So you think its all over
73. Exercise review
74. Join in
75. Lingo
76. Commitments
77. Teaching others
78. Finish the sentence
79. Please Mr Postman
80. Leisure
81. Marooned on a desert island
82. Key learning points
83. Speech bubbles
84. Draw your learning
85. Magazine madness
86. Radio broadcast
87. Story time
88. Tower of strength
89. Mercy dash
90. Personal prescription
91. Promote your team
92. Incremental review
93. Buddy letter
94. Action planning
95. Prioritise your goals
96. Ball toss
97. Evaluation sheet: Style 1
98. Evaluation sheet: Style 2
99. Being
100. Clever clogs
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