Fun Ice-breakers To Start A Conversation And Build Relationships
Fun Ice-breakers to Start a Conversation and Build Relationships
People in a group often shy away from getting to know each other well. Ice breakers are designed to help us get to know each other better by starting a conversation. By definition, an icebreaker is an activity or game designed to welcome participants and warm them up through various interactions in between a meeting or event. It can be used between two or more people in both the professional and personal settings.
Asking the right questions To Start a Conversation
Below is a list of ice breaker questions to start a conversation that you can use to get to know your fellow team members:
1. What are you currently reading?
2. If you could meet any historical figure, either living or deceased, who would you choose and why?
3. What’s the last film you watched? What did you like or dislike about it?
4. If you could pick up a certain skill instantly, what would it be?
5. What’s your favourite book?
6. What is your favourite movie?
7. What’s the most memorable vacation you’ve ever taken?
8. What superpower would you like to have?
9. Do you have a “bucket list”?
10. Do you collect anything?
11. If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?
12. What’s your go-to karaoke song?
13. If you could be an animal, what would you be and why?
14. Who’s your celebrity look alike?
15. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
16. Is there a certain person that has inspired your work?
17. What’s the most valuable piece of career advice you’ve been given?
18. If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour?
19. What’s your favourite indoor activity?
20. Where would you most like to travel next?
21. Do you love working from home or would you rather be in the office? Is there a balance of both that you like best?
22. What’s the hardest part about working virtually for you? The easiest?
23. Do you have a dedicated office space at home?
24. Show us your office space!
25. Where do you work most frequently from at home? Your office? Your kitchen table? The backyard? Your bed?
26. Be honest, how often do you work from bed?
27. What did you eat for breakfast?
28. What does your morning routine look like when working from home?
29. What’s your number one tip for combating distractions when working from home?
30. How do you stay productive and motivated working virtually?
31. What does your typical work from home uniform look like?
32. How many cups of coffee, tea, or beverage-of-choice do you have each morning?
33. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
34. What about showers? Do you prefer morning or night?
35. What’s one thing we could do to improve our virtual meetings?
36. What’s your favourite flower or plant?
37. What’s your beverage of choice? Coffee? Cola? Tea?
38. What’s your favourite scent?
39. What’s the last great TV show or movie you wanted?
40. Best book you’ve ever read?
41. Best professional development book you’ve ever read?
42. If you could learn one new professional skill, what would it be?
43. If you could learn one new personal skill, what would it be?
44. What’s your favourite way to get in some exercise?
45. If you could write a book, what genre would you write it in? Mystery? Thriller? Romance? Historical fiction? Non-fiction?
46. What is one article of clothing that someone could wear that would make you walk out on a date with them?
47. The zombie apocalypse is coming, who are 3 people you want on your team?
48. What is your most used emoji?
49. What was the worst style choice you ever made?
50. What was the worst haircut you ever had?
51. Who was your childhood actor/actress crush?
52. If you were a wrestler what would be your entrance theme song?
53. Have you ever been told you look like someone famous, who was it?
54. If you could bring back any fashion trend what would it be?
55. What’s the most embarrassing fashion trend you used to rock?
56. What did you name your first car?
57. Does your current car have a name? What is it?
58. You have your own late night talk show, who do you invite as your first guest?
59. If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?
60. If you were famous, what would you be famous for?
61. You have to sing karaoke, what song do you pick?
62. What was your least favourite food as a child? Do you still hate it or do you love it now?
63. If you had to eat one meal every day for the rest of your life what would it be?
64. If you were left on a deserted island with either your worst enemy or no one, which would you choose? Why?
65. If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go?
66. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s: Which decade do you love the most and why?
67. What’s your favourite sandwich and why?
68. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
69. When you die, what do you want to be remembered for?
70. What is your favourite item you’ve bought this year?
71. What would be the most surprising scientific discovery imaginable?
72. What is your absolute dream job?
73. What would your talent be if you were competing for Miss or Mister World?
74. What would the title of your autobiography be?
75. Say you’re independently wealthy and don’t have to work, what would you do with your time?
76. If you had to delete all but 3 applications from your mobile phone, which ones would you keep?
77. What is your favourite magical or mythological animal?
78. What does your favourite shirt look like?
79. Who is your favourite Disney hero or heroine? Would you trade places with them?
80. What would your dream house be like?
81. If you could add anyone to Mount Rushmore who would it be; why?
82. You’re going sail around the world, what’s the name of your boat?
83. What fictional family would you be a member of?
84. What is your favourite television network?
85. What sport would you compete in if you were in the Olympics?
86. Who is the better businessman or business woman and why?
87. What was the worst job you ever had?
88. You can have anyone fictional as your imaginary friend, who do you choose and why?
89. What would your superpower be and why?
90. Which band / artist – dead or alive would play at your funeral?
91. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
92. What’s your favourite tradition or holiday?
93. What fictional world or place would you like to visit?
94. What is your favourite breakfast food?
95. What is your favourite time of the day and why?
96. Coffee or tea?
97. What is you chosen super power - Teleportation or flying?
98. What is your favourite TV show?
99. What book, movie read/seen recently you would recommend and why?
100. What breed of dog would you be?
101. If you had a time machine, would go back in time or into the future?
102. Do you think you could live without your mobile phone for 24 hours?
103. What is your favourite dessert?
104. What was your favourite game to play as a child?
105. Are you a traveler or a homebody?
106. What’s one career you wish you could have?
107. What fictional world or place would you like to visit?
108. What’s your favourite place of all the places you’ve travelled?
109. Have you ever met your idol or someone you revere greatly?
110. Have you ever completed anything on your “bucket list”?
111. Do you have a favourite plant?
112. What did you have for breakfast this morning?
113. What was the country you last visited outside of Malaysia?
114. What’s is one thing we don’t know about you?
115. What is your favourite meal to cook and why?
116. Are you a morning person or a night person?
117. What is your favourite musical instrument and why?
118. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
119. What languages do you know how to speak?
120. Popcorn or M&Ms?
For High School Students
121. Do you play any sports?
122. Do you play any instruments?
123. If you could donate a million dollars to any charity, what cause would you choose?
124. Do you have any hidden talents?
125. What subject is your favourite?
126. What subject is your least favourite?
127. What are you most excited about this year?
128. What song or album could you listen to on repeat?
129. If you could live in one fictional universe, which one would you choose?
130. Name one cool feature you would add to your dream house.
131. Describe a time you laughed so hard you thought you would cry, or when you did cry. What was so funny?
132. If you could have your own TV show, what would it be about?
133. What is one thing you want older generations to know about teenagers today?
134. What is your favourite memory with your best friend?
135. What is the best dish you can cook?
For College Students
136. What is your major?
137. If that wasn’t your major, what would your major be?
138. What most surprised you when you first arrived on campus or first started classes at this school?
139. If I visited your home town, what local spots would you suggest I see?
140. What is your favourite midnight snack?
141. What is your best study tip?
142. What is the strangest habit you have?
143. What is the most amazing story about your family?
144. What movie do you think everyone should watch?
145. What is the last TV show that you binge-watched?
146. What is one thing we would never guess about you?
147. Name an imaginary college class you wish this school offered.
148. What current fact about your life would most impress your five year old self?
149. Besides graduating, what is your number one goal for your remaining time at college?
150. Describe the best teacher you have had so far.
For Kids
151. If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be?
152. If your pet could talk, what do you think it would say?
153. Would you rather explore outer space or the bottom of the ocean?
154. Would you rather visit a volcano or a rainforest?
155. If you could only eat one dessert for the rest of your life, what would it be?
156. If you could choose any name besides your name, what would you choose?
157. If you had a million ringgit, what would you buy first?
158. Who is your favourite Disney character?
159. If you could switch lives with anyone for a day, who would it be?
160. What is your favourite colour?
161. Which cartoon character do you wish was real?
162. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
163. What is your best idea for a new invention?
164. If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
165. What is your favourite ice cream flavour and ice cream topping?
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3. What It Takes to Have Good Communication Skills
4. Why Public Speaking Workshops Is Not A Waste Of Time
5. Eye Contact As Body Language
6. 7 Practices To Help You Master Effective Communication
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8. 14 Benefits Of Public Speaking That Will Change Your Life
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10. 3 Useful Tips On How To Improve English Speaking Skills
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12. 7 things I learnt about interpersonal communication from my time at Scouts Malaysia
13. 5 Tips To Improve Your English Language Skills
14. 5 A's to Communicating Better with Your Child from an Educator’s Point of View
15. Non-Verbal Communication Activities For Kids/High School Students
16. How To Be The Best Leader, Simply
17. Why activities for communication building is important for you and family
18. 5 traits of a good teacher at work
19. 4 Ways to Improve Your Stage Presence and Crush your Presentation
20. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Tips that can Change and Save your Child’s Life
21. Leadership Communication and the Impact on a team
23. How to start a formal speech
24. Persuasive Words That You Should Use for a Lifetime
25. Importance Of Public Speaking Classes
26. How To Write With A Speech Format
27. Barriers Of Communication To Avoid
28. Using Verbal Communication As A Tool
29. Using a Public Speaking Script
30. Understanding the Communication Process
31. Showing Confidence in Body Language
32. Non Verbal Types of Communication You Should Use
33. Verbal Types of Communication You Should Use
34. Other Non Verbal Types of Communication You Should Use
For tips on CONFIDENCE:
2. Importance Of Speaking With Confidence
3. How To Battle Shyness Or Feeling "Segan" in Public Speaking
4. How to Gain Confidence In Leadership
5. How To Gain Confidence In Communication
6. Do you struggle to have Self Confidence In Leadership?
7. 135 Quotes On Confidence For Your Everyday
8. Importance of Confidentiality with Children
9. Effective Teaching and Learning for Young Children
10. Parenting Skills List You Need to Know
11. Being the Opposite of Timid
12. Affirmation for Confidence you Can Live by
13. Natural remedies for focusing
14. Being A Good Teacher At Work
15. 7 Qualities Of A Good Home Teacher That Will Get You Closer To Your Child