SECTION 4WHAT: Topic-Driven Icebreakers

Common topics for breaking the ice may seem cliché, but they’ve become cliché only because the topics intimately affect us. With a little creativity, finesse, and alignment with purpose, cliché topics can serve your ice-breaking mission well.

Perfect Phrases to Break the Ice by Talking about Weather

Why is weather a common topic for breaking ice? Because it’s a shared experience that affects us all. Weather affects us in interesting ways. It changes our plans, and it changes our moods. We all have extreme weather stories. No one goes untouched by the weather, and how we respond to it gives clues to who we are.

 

I was reading about the (tornados in the Midwest, hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, earthquakes ...

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