I do train people on life insurance related topics which is a dry topic. People get bored very easily, hence i am searching for ice breakers, funny ppt presentations, quiz, jokes and other such material which can bring them on common line of interest and make the session more interesting
2006-09-24 01:34:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Insurance
If the people you are training know each other, ask each to bring a baby picture with them. Then you post them on a flip chart and assign a number to them (say 1 thru 30). You give everyone a sheet of paper numbered 1-30 and have them guess who each baby is. Everyone will have to get up and mingle and look at the flip chart.....it is great fun, even for the humdrum people. And of course, you give a little prize to the person or persons who guesses the most right.
If your audience are people who do not know each other, you could do the same with famous people baby pictures. You could find these on websites by doing a google search.
Hope this is helpful!!! :)
2006-09-24 01:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by CJ Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
forty years ago during OCS training we were so sleep deprived that some would nod off during lectures in Infantry Hall. One presenter of some mundane subject, like the range of various artillery or how to maintain a supply line, or something had a novel approach. He would state right at the beginning that he would throw a brick at anyone he saw napping. He clunked it on the podium and then placed it underneath. About 5 minutes into the subject he grabbed it and threw it at someone in the first row! Of course what he threw was only a piece of foam that looked like a brick, but it certainly caused people to set up and watch the presenter and waked everyone up. All of us got a shot of adrenaline. Beware however that you may change the actuary tables by this action. In our class the person that was hit was so shocked that he fell over backwards.
2006-09-24 08:48:30 · answer #2 · answered by Nightstalker1967 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the group is small enough, one of my favorites is "Two Truths and a Lie" which is where each person tells two truths and one lie (in any order) about themselves and it's up to the crowd to determine which is the lie. Example:
"My son plays for the Boston Celtics, I've been married four times, and my middle name is Harrison." The the crowd decides which is the false statement. In the above mentioned example, which is a true example from a seminar I attended, the man's middle name was James - lol
Anyway, it's fun... it helps the folks to get to know a bit about each other... and it makes people think (gets them back into their frontal lobe instead of their snoozing zone.)
2006-09-24 08:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by thegirlwholovedbrains 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
divide them into teams. Get a nerf ball or some such, for each team. Name them the current Survivor teams, and do pop quizzes, throwing the nerf ball around the room. It gets them moving, puts it in current pop terms, and definately breaks ice!!
2006-09-24 10:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep searching
2006-09-24 08:35:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell some clean jokes.
2006-09-27 06:44:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.demotivation.com
these are funny (just don't overdo it)
2006-09-24 10:43:15 · answer #7 · answered by derek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋