The Group Press Conference (Icebreaker)

I love training games! They really are essential tools for the corporate trainer.

Press Conference is a great icebreaker, one of my favorites in fact. Here’s how to play:

Choose one person to be “it” and ask him to leave the room for 3-5 minutes.

The people remaining in the classroom decide who that person is going to be. For instance, they might choose someone like “Darth Vader”.

Once decided (take no more than 5 minutes to do so!) call the person back in to the room. Remember, they do not know who they are supposed to be. Have them sit at the front of the class and have participants each ask one question as if they are reporters.

For the Darth Vader character, example questions might be “Do you have respiratory problems?”, “How is your relationship with your family?”, “Are you sometimes violent or have a bad temper?”, “What is your favorite color?” The answers of course do not match what the character would say, but it will have everyone laughing and at ease in no time.

Stress to participants that the idea is not to give away who the person is supposed to be through the questions.

The game is over in one of two ways: When the person guesses correctly the game is over. If every participant has asked a question and the person has not guessed correctly, the game is over and a new person/character is selected.

The person can guess who they are supposed to be at any time during questioning.

This game will have everyone laughing and enjoying themselves!

Enjoy!

Lorie

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