David Letterman the Small Group Leader… Why Small Group Members Don’t Talk
Almost every group leader has experienced the “silent guy,” the group member that just won’t get involved in the conversation ... ? A few suggestions… Always do an ice-breaker. The most important reason to do ice-breakers ... to affirm each individual for speaking early in the meeting which will make them secure enough to speak [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 21:27:16
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FOR TODAY July 28...Outside My Window...Blessed bright blue skies after weeks of hazy yellow ( ... tree has finally set some fruit One of my favorite things...a new treat- Ice Breakers Restore Mints ... ...to meet with a new group of knitters tonight, one that was formed on Ravelry & is meeting in the next [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 17:52:00
Getting Comfy: Ice Breakers #13 - Famous People Game
This Ice Breaker appears this month in honor of the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 22nd. Before the meeting, write the names of famous people on sticky labels. Stick the name of one famous person on each lady's back as they arrive. Then explain that the ladies are supposed to ask [more...]
Date: 2009-02-15 08:39:00
Note from my Sister
I got a lovely note from my sister that I wanted to share. Hi! How is everything? I had to tell you my story….yesterday we had a department meeting and we always have to do these stupid ice breakers whenever we get together as a department. Anyway, one of the questions presented to me was “ [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 00:17:21
ON: Celebrating Your Celebrity
Two years ago when I was working with MTV on a project for Hershey's at Spring Break in Cancun, I articulated why people would watch the realty based web-cast Ice Breakers Watch, Whoa & Vote ... ." One year later, in a meeting an MTV exec quoted me back to me in presentation on Widgets [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 21:34:00
Seminars at Samal and smooth, serenading songs of sentiment
Woah! It’s been several weeks since I’ve written. I’m getting bad at this, I know, ... to discuss the volunteer seminar. "The human knot" - one of the greatest ice breakers ever. Two ... will be known Sunday, when our next volunteer meeting is planned. We celebrated valentine’ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 04:48:00
How To Make Your First Date A Successful One
Your first date can be stressful because you both want everything to be perfect. Here are some points to take into consideration! ... with a knife. You need some ice breakers and things to talk about to make the first date go smoothly ... to face meeting you have arranged to meet up somewhere. Thoughts of ?first impressions are always [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 21:09:22
How To Make Your First Date A Successful One
Your first date can be stressful because you both want everything to be perfect. Here are some points to take into consideration! ... with a knife. You need some ice breakers and things to talk about to make the first date go smoothly ... to face meeting you have arranged to meet up somewhere. Thoughts of ?first impressions are always [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 21:03:26
Job Search - The Series
Ready for a meeting! Today I am launching what I hope is an interesting and informative series on the topic of Job Searches ... been sufficient ice-breakers. In this setting, however, it seemed that even “What you in for?” would ... I wanted to set the stage for the session. I’ll flip now to a more fact based sharing of the meeting’ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 11:00:32
Day Out at Sentosa
This picture is only 70% of the awesome people who were actually there today!I’m writing this live from Café Del Mar right now ... me goosebumps and made me smile.. In summary of the entire day.. We started off the morning meeting up at Vivo’s rooftop, then dividing campers from the 5 respective tribes into 7 random groups. Ice breakers [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 15:13:00
A clearly dangerous precedent
Well, Heroes is back for Volume 4 and I don't care what the world says: I plan to make the most of it while I can ... he's come up with, called America's Next Top 24 Lost Prison Breakers On Ice. Won't that be exciting ... know if this is a deliberate attempt to bring back former glories, but it did fit in nicely with meeting Mohinder [more...]
Date: 2009-02-05 00:54:54
Spreadin’ Some Bloggy Love Today
December 6, 2008 — Sue J It’s cold here. I mean, it may be colder where you are right now, but it’s darn cold for Maryland ... and good food are ice breakers, but they cannot make up for forced conversation or lack of things to talk ... and I had the best time last night meeting the Suburban Lesbian Housewife, aka Sara. In town for a blogger [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 20:19:21
Get to Know your Neighbors
5 Ways You Can Get To Know Your Neighbors in the Inner City Atmosphere. (These are NOT all inclusive or exhaustive.. just to get you thinking) 1 ... are great ice breakers (unless you don’t take the pooper scooper!) 5. Stay Home. This could also ... , and even expectations of cleanliness! They are a great gateway to meeting their parents and [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:42:09
Thursday 15th JanuaryHappy New Year from Ice Breakers at Energy Cafe! ... are all welcome here. “This land is for everyone” as the Abyssinians sing.Its been a time of meeting people who work or live locally…A meeting with Paul Roper, Lee Valley Park Projects Manager provided [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 19:57:25
How To Win Over A Job Interviewer
by Chris Channing Getting a better job isn’t so easy, largely in part to the fact that interviews don’t always go over so well ... common ice-breakers is “Tell me about yourself.” Apart from that, interviewers like to know how ... handshake either before or after the meeting- if not both! Sometimes the interviewer will not offer [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 10:20:15
Ice Breakers
Here's a good-looking site if you're running a meeting, a party, or feel a spontaneous urge to bond with the other people in the subway.http://wilderdom.com/games/Icebreakers.html [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 00:15:00
1st GIM; Fall 2008
First General Interest Meeting: Ice Breakers; Fall 2008. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 17:41:23
Exodus Paves Path to Violence against Gays, Ex-Gays in Sub-Saharan Africa
A prominent board member of the “ex-gay” group Exodus International spoke at a conference in Uganda last week, where activists vowed to “wipe out” homosexuality through police action, forced re-education, life imprisonment, and vigilantism. Exodus President Alan Chambers (pictured) enabled the hate by doing nothing to stop the conference [more...]
Date: 2009-03-10 13:30:34
Down with team-building games
Count me among those who do NOT get worked up about city councils and other public bodies treating ... $3,000 on a "leadership seminar focused on team-building" at their retreat at the end of last week ... in a maze without talking to each other. To confess, I have a deep-seated prejudice against team-building [more...]
Date: 2009-03-03 20:48:22
A Conversation about Redux Getting Their Users Laid
When I was at GoogleIO, I received an email from Brent Griffith, one of the guys on the team behind Redux.com. Redux was mentioned recently on Hacker News, and rather than rewrite much of this commentary, I figured it would be more interesting to just post the conversation here. Slightly edited to remove non-public and irrelevant bits [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 18:03:22
First Day of 2nd Semester 2008
Do unto others what you want others to do unto you.Today I welcomed back Sunway International School with an expecting heart and a positive face ... would've bored anyone sitting beside me.After the intro speech we had some ice breakers. It was so hot ... I was the captain.After the ice breakers I was wet from all my sweat that I looked as if I just [more...]
Date: 2008-07-14 04:29:00
Music Clips Collection
A A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray A-HA - Take on me ABBA - Super Trouper ABC - The Look Of Love Accept - Balls to the Wall Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier Adrian Gurvitz - Classic Adriano Celentano - Susanna AerolĂneas Federales - No me Beses en los Labios [more...]
Date: 2006-10-07 23:00:21
Youth group curriculum reviews: What’s hot, what’s not
Some of the feedback I’ve heard about what you’d like to see added to Life In Student Ministry are reviews of different curriculum so you know what’s worth your money and what isn’t. Personally, I don’t purchase much curriculum because I like to write my own for our ministry — I feel it allows me to be much more precise in addressing the issues [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 08:02:06
Onramps to online engagement
Rambly post alert - this one hops all over the place with little regard to coherence. ... it - and not just at a F2F meeting, but try it online. It could be tricky because it actually asks participants ... for trust building, but as an onramp to engagemetn. Michele Martin shares some of her favorite ice [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 23:53:30
Some Thoughts on Evangelism Methods
Geoff Baggett’s post the other day on altar calls stimulated my thinking about evangelism methods in general. With my father as one of the more well-known and effective practitioners of altar call evangelism in recent years, and having observed literally thousands of people’s lives impacted for eternity as a result, [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 06:01:57
Area Manufacturer Threatens Legal Action on Congressional Candidate
PRESS RELEASE Plasticard Locktech International, the nation's largest key card manufacturer, ... a meeting with three area industries, Plasticard, Nypro, and Plasti-Form, regarding information ... has been a persisting voice of opposition to illegal immigration. He was instrumental in a recent ICE raid [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 12:30:00
Seven team building activities for retreats
Retreats (aka conferences and offsites) often start with a get-to-know-others activity (See my post of Sept ... a dose of team building. Here are some examples from my consulting experience. Team cooking (such as by Team Cuisine in Massachusetts) lets members of a law department do something together [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 16:53:05
February's 13
As someone who's just recently completed the dreaded "25 Things" list on Facebook, I'm feeling particulary meta this weekend. So, let's roll out the shortest month's dose of self-involvement... Social networking site, the aforementioned Facebook: So, yeah, more about Facebook. During the first meeting of my Mass Comm [more...]
Date: 2009-02-02 04:53:27
Food, Fast, and Lent.
T he memory of Lent, for those of us raised Catholic in the 50's and 60's, is surrounded with a gray hue ... Bars, Jaw breakers, and ice cream. I saw no sense getting too carried away with this fasting thing ... , say ice cream, got a certain amount of cache. But one had to temper the desire for good-standing [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 08:34:00
Day 15: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tough day at work. Fortunately, Sharon had made it back from Mississippi (a pleasant surprise), but it was just her and me for the day ... , and Shannon was down with the flu or something. The backlog from the ice storm had begun to roll ... I had turned the breakers on. Folks north of us had power and she thought we should, too. I thought [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 01:05:25
The Knollcrest East Apartments: Where RAs go to Die
Being an RA in the dorms is a coveted position, unlike at a lot of other colleges/universities where the administration has to plead and bribe ... , ice-breakers w/ fellow RAs and sessions of pointers. Then the day when the Barnabi move in they have to re-do all those ice-breaker games. Then, move-in day for the freshman and a week later the rest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 06:08:00
Rethinking conferences
When I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 19:43:59
Ice Breakers: Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Meeting
Ice breakers are meant to establish a comfortable environment for proceedings to occur by making the participants feel at ease ... the right tone for a meeting to proceed.Copyright (c) 2009 Alan GilliesThe purpose of Ice-Breakers ... at hand.Ice breakers are used not only in the beginning, but also when the meeting is in the midway [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 21:01:27
Body Language That Turns Women Off
***SUCCESS STORY*** If there are people out there who still don’t believe in the cocky & funny, QUIT DOUBTIN’ IT AND START WORKIN’ IT! The other night I was at a burger joint near my office. It’s one of those grungy independent places that’s popular with the locals, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-22 17:39:53
100 Day Challenge - Group Coaching Session
Take the 100 Day Challenge! — Group Coaching Program Starts 2/22 Yes, you can meet 50 men in just 100 days ... ! Participants surpassed their goal, talking to and meeting over 50 men in less than 100 days! Their friendly ... . You might ask, “What’s so great about meeting 50 men?” Plenty! Here are several [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 02:11:23
Stocks Crash, But Sex Skyrockets!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you know that the economy’s in the can. Entering into the greatest fiscal depression since the ’30s can be tough, but some inventive (and horny) folks are reaching out for some, uh, sexual healing after getting canned and losing tons [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 16:38:54
The Lost Valley
I was longing for some excitement last Sunday and wanted to explore something new ... . And this is not counting the increase in the number of green speed breakers. I'm all for safety ... of frost, but no ice on the road.Some ten kilometers upstream from Itsukaichi, the river splits [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 06:50:00
Going out is hard when unemployed
Besides balancing study time and free time, returning to the life of an unemployed student has been a lesson in trying to have a social life without breaking the bank. The other night, I went out for dinner with some old and new friends. We ordered family-style, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-24 12:00:31
nuffnang sharing session @ italianniese, the garden
Well this is my first sharing session with nuffnangers @ Italianniese, The Garden.And boy I had a great time because there was great company.. ... ! ^^ We had speech from robb and KY. Then a lil informal ice-breakers among ourselves. Ice breaking ... In between we had small talks among ourselves. Nice chatting and meeting you peeps!got to meet [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 09:45:00
Schmoozing For The Job Hunter or For Getting New Business
We know that social networking is all the rage. We also know in this tough economy its very important to learn to market yourself. Your online network needs to move to a personal connection. For many people, learning to network face-to-face or Schmooze with people is hard [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 20:08:08
GINNY BATES: RIDERS IN THE STORM
Here's another installment of my Great American Lesbian Novel (in progress), Ginny Bates . If you are new to reading GB, go to the section in the right-hand column labeled Ginny Bates to read background and find out how to catch up. July 2019 With great regret, [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 05:30:00
January 22 - Jobless claims rise to 589,000 - Tyco cuts 2500 - Intel: up to 6000 jobless - 2000 more gone at GM - Huntsman releases 1175 - Nokia slams 1000 - OHSU trims 1000 - UAL to discharge 1000 - How many jobs cut at IBM? - Microsoft to layoff 5000 - Eaton to chop another 3200 - Yahoo to end 3000 jobs? - SUN sets on 1300 jobs - F5 minus 7% - Black day for 200 at Black Box
Mike: Good day to all. Today’s much anticipated news will likely revolve around earnings releases from Microsoft and Google, as well as the Jobless Claims numbers. Yesterday, a few earnings reports were better than expected, as in the case of Apple, but the layoff announcements didn’t slow their brutal pace [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 13:04:15
100 Years, 50 Losers: #1
“It’s a Festivus Miracle!”George Costanza, SeinfeldPlayed By: Jason AlexanderBorn to Lose: I was watching some NFL TV special on the Top Ten Power Running Backs of All-Time, and some guy that when it came to the subject of power running backs, “Jim Brown is #1. And there is no #2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 05:40:41
100 Day Challenge - Group Coaching Session Special
Take the 100 Day Challenge! — Group Coaching Program Starts 2/22 Yes, you can meet 50 men in just 100 days ... . And, 99.9% of the time their conversations and ice breakers have been welcomed and very well received ... to and meeting over 50 men in less than 100 days! Their friendly, flirtatious encounters turned [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 18:33:03
In a New History of NSA, Its Spies’ Successes Are [Redacted]
Agency Tells Story but Keeps Victories Secret; The Day the Soviets Changed Their Codes By SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON — For much of its history, ... War II from listening in on the French. Code breakers missed a key tip-off in the Cuban Missile [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 21:00:58
100 Day Challenge - Group Coaching Session
Take the 100 Day Challenge! — Group Coaching Program Starts 2/22 Yes, you can meet 50 men in just 100 days ... . And, 99.9% of the time their conversations and ice breakers have been welcomed and very well received ... to and meeting over 50 men in less than 100 days! Their friendly, flirtatious encounters turned [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 02:11:23
HELP! BORACAY Family Under Seige Monday, November 17, 2008 / Posted by Brian /
Dear Readers, PLEASE read this and give your opinion.I will hyper link it later. I just want everyone to read this.The SISTER of the MAYOR?????? ... are on leased land while The Apartments (building) is on purchased land. Both properties are under siege [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 13:43:00
Of A Church Camp & A Memorable 17th Birthday
WARNING! WARNING!Trust me, this will be long! I remember very clearly after finishing my Biology Paper II and after checking through them, ... of the lightings. Haha!It was quite a night out that night as we had comm meeting in church at 8.30 [more...]
Date: 2008-05-25 13:12:00
Final Scores Thur Nov 20th, 2008
Final Scores Thur Nov 20th, 2008 You're browsing: Home (Thursday, November 20th) Final Score: Pittsburgh 27, Cincinnati 10 Pittsburgh, PA - Ben Roethlisberger didn’t let a bitter, snowy night bother his throwing or running, totaling 243 yards passing with a passing and rushing touchdown, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 12:31:23
How To Break the Ice in Team Player
How To Break the Ice in Team Player Ore: 07:17 - Tags: Improve Yourself Ice Breakers can be an effective way of starting a training session or team-building event. As interactive and often fun sessions run before the main proceedings, they help [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 00:17:40
