Leadership Icebreakers #2

Here's another game on leadership icebreakers you can use to actually start off your crowd on the topic of leadership.

Leadership icebreakers #2: Taking the initiative

The speaker told everyone in the seminar to go around to exchange greetings with five other people in about 5 mins.

After 5 mins, he asked the crowd a few questions:

1. How many people actually did that for five other people? How many did less?
2. How many people did it for more than five people?
3. How many actually went the extra mile and starting asking others for namecards?

During this short exercise, the group was able to evaluate themselves on how they would behave on in a relationship: were they active people who would take the initiative to get to know others, or were they the type that were passive and waited for people to get to know them.

As a leader, we have to learn to take the initiative to get to know people. We are supposed to be the 'hosts' ( as opposed to guests) in a relationship. This means that we take initiative to direct, lead, make the other party feel welcome in your presence.

It means going the extra step in any relationship. Put it this way. People under you most likely won't be the ones coming to you and purposefully getting to know you. In Asian culture, it doesn't work that way.

It's always the superior that initiates the conversation and leads the direction of the conversation as well. So if you're in a position of leadership, you have to be the ones to befriend people, and not expect them to come to you for it.

On a side note: I'm writing this leadership icebreakers for a reason. Of which I'll tell you my friends if you ask me over MSN only. Haha.

Life's been pretty great. When us SMU-CHCers come together to pray in the morning, we can feel really energized and focused for the rest of the day to be productive, effective individuals.

Remember, that when we put Him first in our lives, says Matthew 6:33, that all the things that we need will be added unto us. =)