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Creative AI Group Activity / Closing
You think you're just watching a YouTube video, but surprise—you’re being teleported into the closing session of the Connector Summit, a virtual event packed with powerful moments of connection. This session wasn’t about teaching a clever closing exercise—it was about...
Connection Before Content – Best Icebreaker & Team Builder
Welcome! If you’re here, you’ve discovered a concept I believe to be the ultimate icebreaker and team-building approach: Connection Before Content. Think of this article as your crash course, packed with insights, strategies, and tools to bring intentional connection...
Behind the Scenes: Creating 50 Million Conversations
This video and article is an unfiltered look behind the curtain on my content strategy, vision, and mission for 2025. It’s not just about creating content—it’s about inviting you into a shared mission: to spark 50 million conversations that make connection easy in the...
Ask THIS to Edit Your Future
How Connectors Edit the Future: Conversations That Change Lives What if a simple question could change the trajectory of someone’s life? Two years ago, a mentor of mine asked me a seemingly mundane question: “What’s something you’d like to do more of?” My answer?...
4 Conversation Starter Questions For Work
How do you create meaningful conversations at work? Whether you’re breaking the ice in a meeting, facilitating deeper dialogue, or simply trying to connect with colleagues, the right questions can spark engagement and foster a positive team culture. Below, I’ll share...
Perfect Pictures For Team Building And Group Activities
Visual tools are a game-changer in team building. Most people are visual thinkers, whether or not there’s scientific consensus around that fact. What’s undeniable is that imagery and experiential data tend to leave a lasting impression, embedding themselves in...
5 Meeting Starter Questions for Events: Fantastic Templates to Build Connection and Purpose
Starting a meeting with the right question can make a world of difference. Crafting fantastic questions for meetings and events is an art—and a science. This guide offers five go-to templates for creating connection-building, purposeful questions that you can easily...
Free Printable Team Building Activities for Work
Looking for free, printable team building activities to make your next work gathering more meaningful and fun? You’re in the right place! In this guide, I’ll introduce you to a collection of free printable team building resources designed to bring teams together,...
Unique Suggestions For Team Building Activities
If you landed here, you're probably looking for some good suggestions for team-building activities. In this blog post, I’m going to give you some unconventional, unique, yet wildly useful and universally applicable team-building exercises. Whether you're working...
Quick Energizers For Large Groups
Here are 6 really awesome, quick energizers for large groups. I’ve facilitated energizers with over 100,000 people. It’s what I get to do for a living, and in this post, I’ll share some really creative energizers that you probably won’t find on the internet anywhere...
Virtual Team Building Activities For Large Groups
In late 2024, we are well past the height of COVID, yet many of us still find ourselves attending virtual meetings. Unfortunately, a lot of those meetings have fallen into bad habits—becoming passive, dull, and filled with consumption-only content, especially when...
No Prep Icebreakers For Adults
So, you're searching for icebreakers for adults, and you’ve stumbled upon this guide featuring five no prep icebreakers. I do this for a living, and I'm here to share the best of the best. I’m also going to help you avoid one of the biggest pitfalls when leading...
Best Way To Start A Team Meeting
Sheryl Sandberg, the former COO of Facebook (now Meta), once walked into a board meeting and said, "Hey, everybody, this meeting is really expensive, let's get started." It’s a powerful reminder that time is precious, and meetings should reflect that. In my opinion,...
4 Team-Building Activities For Corporate Events
If you Google team-building activities for corporate events, you’ll find plenty of ideas like bowling nights or happy hours. But you’ve landed on the right page, where I’m going to share four impactful exercises that can truly help your team build lasting connections....
7 Amazing Icebreakers for College Students
This post is going to unpack seven amazing icebreakers that work incredibly well for college students. Whether you're dealing with first-year students who are nervous, trying to be cool, and feeling a bit uncomfortable, or you're engaging upperclassmen, these...
Top 5 Facilitation Skills | How To Be A Great Facilitator
Whether you're a beginner facilitator just starting out, or you're an expert who makes a living from facilitating, training, and leading groups, this blog post is for you. I’m going to break down the top five facilitation skills, but with a twist—I'll map them out on...
Best In-Person Connection Group Activity / Experiment
When was the last time you engaged in a conversation where you truly connected? Not the typical, “Where are you from?” or “What do you do?” but something deeper, something that created a lasting impact? If you're like most people, those meaningful connections are...
How To Conduct Effective Meetings
60 minutes go by, everybody walks out of the room or clicks off Zoom. "That meeting should have been an email." We want to avoid this at all costs. How do you conduct really effective meetings? I'm going to give you two tools in this video. The first tool you can...