Learn to Create Templates and Win: Icebreakers Templates Challenge 🎉🥳

  • 21 November 2022
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Learn to Create Templates and Win: Icebreakers Templates Challenge 🎉🥳
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Name: Mirjam Leunissen
Role: Self-employed facilitator & trainer

Board:

 

 

PURPOSE:
The 'Seeing the forest for the trees' board serves as a visual tool for exploration and connection with the entire group at the beginning of a meeting, using the metaphor of individual trees (the participants) together constituting a diverse forest. It sparks reflection & conversation and leverages the diversity of the group, revealing what would otherwise remain hidden - a picture is worth a thousand words! 

What do we (not) have in common? What are the strengths / weaknesses of our individual trees and do we form a healthy forest together? What might be missing in our forest? 

The board connects directly to the shared purpose of the meeting for which the characteristics of the forest are relevant and thus leads naturally into other activities and conversations.
 

Group: 6 - 18 people that are on a shared journey (e.g. in professional development or a project), but may not know each other very well yet.

Duration: 15 minutes

 


FEATURES: 
- the board supports less experienced Miro-users with pre-made drag & drop elements and the user only needs to access the default color palette
- within the limitations of the default color palette the contrast has been optimised to support users with a color vision deficiency
- the board is designed for common laptop screen sizes, optimising legibility while maintaining the overview (and thus limiting the need to zoom in & out)
- the layout follows the default scroll direction for easy navigation

 


FACILITATOR INSTRUCTIONS

Before the meeting:

Decide what information you want to visually encode in the tree ring profiles and what axes you use to sort the profiles. Change the labels on the board if needed.

The example shown is for a group of facilitators from the NeverDoneBefore community, visually encoding:

🌳 How many years experience do you have as a facilitator?
🌳 Are you self-employed or do you work for an organisation?
🌳 What area do you primarily work in these days?
🌳 Do you work mostly online, in-person or roughly 50/50?
🌳 How many certifications in facilitation do you have?
🌳 In how many professional communities are you currently active?

 

During the meeting:

1) Start at the first field and invite participants to duplicate & drag the tree ring image that reflects their situation to the second field on the board.

2) Reveal step-by-step the visual encoding guide at the bottom of the second field and demonstrate the editing steps, letting participants customise their tree rings.

3) Invite participants to move their customised tree rings to the final field, positioning them along the horizontal & vertical scales, so as to reflect their situation.

4) Now it's time to start seeing the forest for the trees! Invite a group conversation by highlighting aspects that stand out and by inviting additional observations. For example:

🌳 Are the trees healthy?
     What aspects of our trees serve / inhibit us? (e.g. certifications)

🌳 Do we form a healthy forest together?
     How might our similarities / differences support us?
     What might be missing in our forest? (e.g. specific expertise)

5) From here you can take it into further conversation and activities connected to the shared purpose of the meeting for which the characteristics of the forest are relevant.

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Hi,

please find our icebreaker here.

What:

  • This Icebreaker game is designed to bring team members closer to each other. Participants need to work together in order to find the answers for some personal questions.

  • Who will win? All of the participants by having more information about each other. Get to know each other increases trust between team members, establishes psychological safety and contributes to a high-performing team.

Who:

  • This template is most beneficial to small groups with 3-10 team members.

When:

  • It can be used as icebreaker before scrum sessions, brainstormings, any type of meetings.

How:

  • Facilitator should think about a theme for the exercise (Christmas, etc.). Identify questions related to the selected theme, like "What was worst Christmas present you have ever got?"

  • As a preparation for the exercise ask all participants to answer one of the questions and collect their answers.

  • Update the template with the questions and integrate the answers to the word search part.

  • Use the exercise as 5 minutes icebreaker for your meeting.

  • Introduce the exercise, review all the questions and ask participants to find the answers in the word search. Answers should be highlighted by the rectangles provided.

  • Team members are to be discussed the answers shortly.

Natalie Nedre
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Time to start our next - March’23 - challenge! 
Find the details in this thread.
Please note, that we now calculate votes and likes in Miroverse for the people's choice award, so the earlier you publish the higher the chances are for winning.

Helena Brandist
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@Nick V You can find the details here. And indeed, you can submit several icebreakers- please add each of them separately in this thread 🙂

Helena, Miroverse Community Specialist
Helena Brandist
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@OnlyAli the link is in the event description: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9551688942. Please join us 😊

Helena, Miroverse Community Specialist
Helena Brandist
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Hey @Paul Snedden , not a requirement, it is also mentioned in the post : “You can then submit your brand new icebreaker template for a chance to win a prize. (if you feel confident with your template creation skills- no need to attend one or more of the workshops- but it’ll be fun.)” 😊

It is for those who want to join but feel they need some training :)

I’ll highlight that part 😎

 

Looking forward to see what you create!

Helena, Miroverse Community Specialist
amtodorova
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🎨 There's an artist hidden in every single one of us! This is an icebreaker that allows everyone to create a mosaic masterpiece and share what they care about in just 25 tiles.

  • Anna-Maria Todorova
  • Agile Coach, eyeo GmbH
  • Mosaic Icebreaker Template:


Miro board link: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVP-RRohM=/
Password: mosaicicebreaker

 

Instructions:

0. Ask participants to choose a board and to add their names to the sticky in the top left corner.

 

1. Give everyone a moment to pick something they love. This can be an object, a person/pet or an activity.

 

2. Give everyone 5 minutes to create a mosaic representation of the thing they love.

 

3. Give everyone 3 minutes to look at the creations of others and write down their guesses on a sticky note. Bump the time if you have more than 8 people joining.

 

4. Go around the board as a group and let each participant share what they actually tried to represent.

 

💡Tip: If you need more than 8 boards, make sure to lock the background & the frame for the mosaic on the new additions, as well as to bring the color tiles to front, just in case!

 

📸 Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash.

Richard Becker
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Miro avatar builder - icebreaker and beginner tutorial

  • Richard Becker
  • Illustrator at Big Pictury GmbH (Hamburg)
  • A combination of an icebreaker and a beginner Miro tutorial, this template will help users to:
     
    1. Create a self-portrait vector illustration using only Miro shape and line elements.
    2. Export the illustration as an image.
    3. Import the image as their Miro profile photo.
     
    The template is intended to be an engaging and expressive way to learn some of the basics of Miro, including arrangement, grouping, connecting, aligning and colouring of shapes, exporting of frames, and importing a profile photo. Users are encouraged to have fun and create something personal and original. The rules are, there are no rules! Examples are given as inspiration or as starting points. More detailed instructions can be found in the template itself.
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  • Barry Jack
  • Scrum Master at Group GTI
  • Instructions in the template

 

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Hello MIRO Creators,

ICE BREAKER - MAKE A OBJECT

A Christmas themed, quick ice breaker to start any presentation, retrospective or event with a fun filled ice breaker game to engage all your team members on a track.

INSTRUCTION FOR THE ICE BREAKER :

  • This template will grasp the team members attention with their attractive and fun filled activity.

  • First engage everyone to say Ho-Ho-Ho as mentioned in the image as a warm up.

  • Then ask team members to pick 1 or 2 and drop it in the box with name on the sticky.

  • Later, ask 1 members to make Christmas tree and 2 members to make snow man with the time on 1 minute.

  • Then see, who has completed everyone and start your presentation.

  • It will be really fun to finish object making on time :-)

Let’s have a fun engaging session with your team members .

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