Ice Breakers and Warm Ups

Ice Breakers are a useful for Trainers as they help your delegates settle and relax.  Even if you are an in-house trainer and the people that you train know each other an Ice Breaker enables them to discover new things about each other in a safe way. 

Ice Breakers can be quick or they can form a larger part of the learning.  It is entirely up to you the trainer and resources and time available to you.  ice Breakers do not need to relate to the learning event directly and sometimes it is better if they don't.  If you are able to relate the ice breaker directly that is fine.  From most ice breakers you should be able to pull out some learning points to relate to the course.

Warm ups are very similar to ice breakers but, they can be used at any time during a learning event - especially after lunch.  They 'warm up' the audience so that they are ready for the next session.

The following ice breakers and warm ups require no set number of people or special equipment.