Tom KrieglsteinFounder, Global Keynote Speaker, Swift Kick Leadership · Founder and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker at Swift Kick Leadership

Stop Saying Ice Breaker #DanceFloorTheory, #CultureOfConnection

Name: Stop Saying Ice Breaker #DanceFloorTheory, #CultureOfConnection
Uploaded: 2023-07-01T13:36:29+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Tom Krieglstein
Description: In this brief instructional video, Tom Krieglstein urges facilitators to abandon the term "icebreaker," arguing that it carries negative energy that can…

1 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional video, Tom Krieglstein urges facilitators to abandon the term "icebreaker," arguing that it carries negative energy that can hinder group dynamics. He proposes simply labeling such exercises as "group activities" or, better yet, rolling directly into them without any preamble. Krieglstein also references neuro‑linguistic programming (NLP) as a source of three specific phrases that can help create connection without invoking the dreaded label. The overall message is to normalize seamless, unlabeled activities that foster rapport, leveraging NLP insights to do so.

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Just take your pencil or pen or whatever and just cross through, put an X through icebreaker from this moment forward. But the word, the phrase icebreaker has so much negative energy attached to it. So I'm going to give you some strategies to create an icebreaker without saying the word icebreaker. The very first thing is, if you need to say something at all, just call it a group activity if you need to. In fact, I'm suggesting that we just roll right into it. Don't even tell them that you're going to do this. In fact, we've actually done it here today, if anyone's interested. These three phrases come from a whole body of research called neuro linguistic programming.