Ice breakers are a powerful tool to facilitate the team working. In this session we will see some exercises and games to help the creation of the groups, collaboration, communication, or even just to break the ice and create a close-knit group.
Once a student in a class said: “thanks to the exercises that you have made us , I found myself working with others like I know them for a long time , even if we met this morning for the first time “ The goal of this session is exactly this.
Agile methodologies give great importance to the concept of the team, to being part of a group where people work together to achieve goals.
Teamwork is a great thing, but it is not always so easy to be part of a team. Tuckman through its five stages model (forming, storming, norming, performing positions) explained that, before reaching the stage performance, a team must pass a series of steps related to the growth of the team itself.
As agile coach often find myself having to facilitate and simplify the process of growth to get in the easiest and fastest in the performing stage. Due to my experience in the theater of improvisation, in public speaking, agile coaching, creating communities within organizations, I have collected a number of useful tools such as ice breakers and then simplify the phase of team building.
I use them in my classes, but also in the coaching of development teams and in general all the times when you need to find a way to help people know each other. My set of ice breakers embraces issues of serious gaming, time management and time awarness, comunication and public speaking skills, agile management team and more.
At the end of these exercises in the group circulated a positive energy, joy and the desire to work together.
I would like to share them with you.
