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IO refuse to take part if I possibly can - one thing that sabotages it nicely is to work out the cost per minute to the company of the meeting and say that. "My name is Jeremy and I am watching the company waste £150 a minute on this"
I have also done (once I got the agenda) "is there anything useful going to happen?" "If not I have work to do" and left
Had to participate in one that a client organisation was running. The facilitator asked everyone to stand in a circle and pass a cushion to someone who then had to say what positive things had happened to them that day. Excruciating - especially as everyone else, apart from me, worked for the organisation so they all knew each other anyway. I had to make something up as I'd had a really s**t day.
I regularly train people in marketing who are thinking of setting up in business, so my "icebreaker" (stupid term) is just to ask them their business idea and a brand they admire - these brands can then be referred back to during different elements of the course.
You could ask your colleagues to come up with one thing a competitor organisation does better than you, or as suggested above identify an aspect of your business that could be improved.
Dear me, you lot certainly have a lot of disruptive, blocking behaviours to overcome your shyness!
I went to a training course that was pure bs, with all of the associated crap. The group was asked to make up a rule each for the day to make it all go smoothly. Mine was 'no dogs on the tables', cue stony silence and tumbleweed blowing across the room.
I was quietly peeing myself laughing, and none of them knew I was taking the p. Morons the lot of them.
Get everybody to say what sort of tail they would have, if they could have one from any animal - and why.
The slap game. Each person has to close their eyes, someone slaps, punches, kicks or bites them and they have to guess who it was.
Let us know how it goes!