Team building activities for the call center
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Excerpted from "More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes" by Brian Cole Miller. Copyright © 2007 Brian Cole Miller. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. All rights reserved. For more information about this book and other similar titles, visit AMACOM Books.
Chapter 3: Welcoming: Introductions and Icebreakers
This excerpt includes three activities: Bet You Didn't Know This, Cell Phone Rings and Human Poker.
Activity: Cell Phone Rings
This is...
A fun introduction or icebreaker activity in which
participants introduce themselves by playing their
cell phone ring.
The purpose is...
For participants to learn a little bit about each other that is not work related.
Use this when...
- Participants don't know each other well.
- You want the participants to warm up, begin talking to each other and connecting without getting too personal or intrusive.
- You don't have prep time and/or materials for anything more elaborate.
Materials you'll need...
Each participant needs a cell phone.
Here's how...
- Have each participant introduce himself or herself with relevant information (name, position, location, etc.).
- The participant then plays his or her cell phone ring tone and explains why he or she chose that particular tone.
"My name is Lynn. This is my cell phone ring. I chose this one because I'm often outside watching my son's baseball games. If my phone rings in my purse, I need it to be loud and obnoxious so that I'm sure to hear it!"
Ask these questions...
(I wanted something that reminded me of the telephone ring I heard when I was a kid; It just came with the phone, and I never changed it; My son likes to change it on me periodically.)
(No, I hardly know how to change this one; Yes, so I can know ahead of time if I want to answer or not; No, that would take too long to set up.)
(As a single mother, I never turn it off completely; I turn it off in meetings; I only use it to make emergency calls, so I rarely ever turn it on.)
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