From the course: Icebreakers for Teams, Meetings, and Groups

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Large general meetings

Large general meetings

- When you walk into a room filled with people, what's your strategy? Do you show up with a friend? Do you find a seat as far from the front as possible and look at your phone? Being comfortable in a crowd is tough and that's why we need icebreakers for large meetings. They create energy and excitement for your event. To get people talking to one another, make a game of introductions. Play human bingo, for example. You make a piece of paper with 25 squares and in each square, write something a human being can do. Skydiving, maybe, or playing the piano. Be sure to leave space in each box for a person who's done that activity to sign their name. Participants take their copy of the paper and ask others which of the things they've done. The first person to get a straight line of signed boxes from one end of the paper to the other wins a prize. Debrief by introducing the people who signed the winning card. I've gone…

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