25 Interesting Ice Breaker Games for your Next Team Meeting

An icebreaker is an activity, game, or event that is used to welcome attendees and warm up the conversation among participants in a corporate setting. Icebreaker can be a quick session for participants to get to know each other, form deeper relationships with one another while having fun or reinforcing the team building skills before the next planned activity at your meeting.

Depending on how well your participants know each other, there are different approaches to break the ice. Through our experience, we have classified the various type of ice breaker games into three main types of icebreaker activities;

Level 1 – Getting to Know You: If your participants don’t know each other well, these icebreaker ideas will be useful for them to introduce themselves in a fun and comfortable manner. Incorporating the element of fun will definitely lessen the awkwardness since they might be meeting each other for the first time. These icebreaker games would be useful if you are welcoming overseas guests for your meeting. 

Level 2 – Connecting With You: These activities are suitable if your participants already know each other. Incorporating an icebreaker game is still effective to warm up the conversation. These activities build deeper interaction among the participants and help them to understand each other better which in turn develop important skills such as leadership, communication and even collaboration.

Level 3 – Having Fun With You: Assuming your participants already know each other inside out, this last type of icebreaker is mainly for fun. Before breaking into a formal meeting, introduce these icebreaker games will lessen the stress level, as the laughter and conversation generated by the activities will definitely warm up the group further. These activities are also very useful for your team building events.