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Sometimes a good icebreaker can be as simple as answering a good question or prompt. If the goal is to get people warmed-up, talking, laughing and having fun... sometimes that's all it takes. For a live group, the facilitator picks a question or prompt and asks people to pair up and share with their answer with their partner. For an online community, ask people to post their answers to a community forum or message board.

[http://www.Plinky.com Plinky] is a service/community that you can subscribe to . It will send you good questions & prompts every dayeveryday. You can also browse/search [http://www.plinky.com/prompts their archives].

Here's a sample of some of their recent prompts that would make great icebreaker questions for the start of your next meeting:* Paul Simon was going to Graceland, Toto blessed the rains down in Africa – what place would you write a song about? Explain why it's worthy of song.

Note: they have a lot Plinky has many of questions about relationships, which aren't necessarily may not be appropriate for your group... eE.g. "What's the worst way you've ever dumped or been dumped by someone?" is probably not a good way to start your next staff meeting, so use your discretion. Also, the better you can relate the questions to the content of your meeting or training (even if you don't reveal to the participants how it's related until after the activity) the more it will help build community.

None necesssary, but if If you are doing this live, after you give people a chance to talk in pairs, you can ask a few volunteers to share with the larger group.