Warmupz generates meeting starters that get your team in sync and ready to collaborate. ⌛2-3 minutes each 💻In-person and remote meetings 👪Groups that know each other well and those who don't 🦖350+ combinations from thoughtful questions to animal impressions
These are so cute!!
I love warmups for meetings/workshops and often look to improv techniques for inspirations. But looking back, it was harder to implement at times for many reasons (e.g. having people on board to try one without making them feel like wasting time, especially when you have a couple of stressed cynics in the team). In fact, that is when you need something like this the most to spare some headspace for breakthrough ideas. :)
Would love to hear how it went when you guys tried yourselves. Maybe record and share a zoom demo? lol
@jinahlee1234 Thanks Jin Ah! To your point, we tried to make it as seamless as possible and easy for everyone to get on board - that's probably the biggest barrier to teams trying this out.
As for us trying them - most of the time they've really helped us get grounded for our meetings. Some work better for different types of tasks than others and for different headspaces. We've found the One Word warm-up to be pretty reliable across the board! We'll try to get a demo of that up!
Hey ya'll - Dylan here,
For the last few months my partner Adrian and I have been experimenting with different types of meeting warm-ups. We put them together in this handy generator for you to enjoy and use with your team!
We were inspired by this awesome post from IDEO to try starting at least one meeting a week with a warm-up. (credit to my girlfriend for finding the post).
When we started looking for ideas we found that most were either:
- Icebreakers for people who didn't know each other
- 10-15 minutes or longer
- Involved various materials (cards, M&Ms, etc)
- Required the meetings be in-person - human knot anyone?
We were looking for something that could quickly get us in sync and ready to collaborate, so we started making our own with the following characteristics:
- Works for people who know each other well
- 2-3 minutes long
- No assembly required
- Equally useful for in-person and remote teams
We currently have 20 different types of warm-ups that generate over 350 unique warm-ups. We'll keep adding to the library and also welcome any of your favorites (and of course any feedback on existing ones).
Enjoy!
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