Quick Grouping Exercise Mixes Teams Rapidly - Clumps
Quick Grouping Exercise Mixes Teams Rapidly - Clumps is a relationship mapping exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Explain that everyone will soon be invited to form a series of smaller groups.
- Each group will comprise a defined number of people matching the number you announce. For example, if you announce “SIX,” everyone must form small groups of six people, including themselves.
- Encourage people to locate or form their groups quickly.
- Upon gathering, consider asking the group to complete a task, such as share a response to a question you pose.
- Repeat, by continuing to announce a series of numbers until you are satisfied you have created sufficiently random small teams.
- Clumps Quick grouping exercise to create random teams with high energy.
- Clumps is the perfect icebreaker game because it mixes people randomly and sparks meaningful interactions.
- Ideal as a get-to-know-you activity, participants interact energetically through the space while meeting new people.
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Explain that everyone will soon be invited to form a series of smaller groups.
Each group will comprise a defined number of people matching the number you announce. For example, if you announce “SIX,” everyone must form small groups of six people, including themselves.
Encourage people to locate or form their groups quickly.
Upon gathering, consider asking the group to complete a task, such as share a response to a question you pose.
Repeat, by continuing to announce a series of numbers until you are satisfied you have created sufficiently random small teams.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Quick Grouping Exercise Mixes Teams Rapidly - Clumps. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain that everyone will soon be invited to form a series of smaller groups.; Each group will comprise a defined number of people matching the number you announce. For example, if you announce “SIX,” everyone must form small groups of six people, including themselves.; Encourage people to locate or form their groups quickly.; Upon gathering, consider asking the group to complete a task, such as share a response to a question you pose.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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