Category: Step 1

A great icebreaker for bringing together a group who will be working together. Asking each participant to share their answers to each of these questions is good way to begin getting to know one another and build trusted relationships. |

The Gifts of the Head, Heart and Hands is a simple but incredibly effective tool to help uncover one another's gifts, talents, skills, interests, knowledge, and passion. Great way to get to know one another. More details can be found in this two minute video. |

Here are 29 Holiday Intros that work well for online meetings but can also be used in face to face settings.  These can be used one at a time or use the 2 powerpoint slides and have participants choose their own. You can download it 'as-is' or customize it if you have other intros to add. Enjoy and Happy Holidays! |

Provided in a ready-to-use powerpoint file, these four well-tested intros are a great starting point for participant engagement in online meetings: Four Intros for Online Meetings |

Five great ideas in less than five minutes from *Bytes! a special webseries. |

This form was inspired by the work of Ivan Scheier who believed engaging people and keeping them engaged as volunteers in their communities was dependent upon ensuring a "good fit".  His four questions are designed as an efficient and effective strategy for determining an individuals's assets, their preferred areas of growth, and what they don't want to do. Additionally, there is one question designed to help better understand their values. ...

UNDERSTANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE Being able to build a dynamic team—a group of individuals capable of pulling smoothly in the same direction—is especially important for leaders wanting to ensure collective impact and ultimately transformative change in community, business, and/or government settings. As such, it requires understanding that people are different and, while differences are essential for innovation and change, they can also...

This file contains 30 intros printed on one page. These are ideal for having participants introduce themselves using different icebreakers. It makes for interesting introductions while at the same time exposing participants to options for helping participants get to know one another.  In a face to face meeting, you can simply cut out and distribute a different intro to each participant. 30 Intros.docx |

Creating a team charter or terms of reference will help you to learn about your team or committee members and put some structure or boundaries around the group process. In order to build the best team possible and mitigate potential conflict that can hinder productivity, it is important to establish guidelines about key priorities, roles and responsibilities and how you will work together. Conflict in teams is normal but how you handle it makes...