Does anyone know a quick team building activity to start of a team meeting?

I'm the administrator for the audit department of an accounting firm and we have lost some very valuable people in the department. We have a lot of young staff who don't have the confidence to work together yet. I am looking for an activity or 2 that we can do at our monthly meetings. It would need to be something fairly simple that can be done in a conference room in about 15 minutes. Just something to get everyone to relax and interact with eachother. Any suggestions?

I've started training sessions by asking each person to tell us something interesting about themselves - it's a good way of finding out about another person.

At a listening skills training session, we had to sit facing opposite each other, and we had one minute to find out how much we had in common. Then one side moved down, and you did the same thing with the next person.

At another course I went on, we paired up, and told the other person some information about ourselves, then that person had to introduce us to the group.

These are all easy ways to get people talking to each other, and you can find out some really interesting stuff about your colleagues!

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