Icebreakers: thoughtful exercises and activities to improve team performance

5 - 15 minutes

Share your team’s information with the group in 4 short memorable phrases - thereby building new bonds and leveraging an ever-growing network

As players/participants enter the room or begin the round/exercise, they spend four minutes writing their 4 phrase resume.
That’s it. 4 phrases. They can cover any point in their life and any type of event. There are no restrictions. What each person chooses to write about in their 4 phrases is part of the exercise since participants tend to focus on vastly different (or scarily similar) elements
In People Science groups (or if PS teams are unavailable, groups of two to four) participants then review each others’ resumes and discuss intriguing pieces or questions
The group should then try to identify common history and background (e.g., previous companies, people they know, skills, experiences, hobbies, education)
Document this information and pass to knowledge weaver. The information should then be built into the rest of the event.

With a team that works together regularly, instead of a professional resume, make it a personal one
Collect all the resumes, and at the end of the day hold a “Guess who?” contest - e.g., Who played basketball with Magic Johnson in college?
5 minute version - don’t have them write anything. Just get in small groups and have them share their 2 sentence audible resume
Give categories for each of the 4 parts of the resume phrases. I.e. Biggest accomplishment, biggest failure, high school skills you are still using, how income disparity is impacting your business, etc.
Use this detailed overview of creating your 4 lines as inspiration: http://bit.ly/1FzdgSF

Collect all resumes and input to profiles for each player
If players are entering info directly into devices - do real time display on dashboard

4 Phrase Resume