10 icebreaker polls for your next meeting
By Voxpla team ·
The first five minutes decide whether a meeting is a monologue or a conversation. A quick poll gets every phone in the room involved before you reach the first agenda item. Here are ten that work.
Word clouds
- Describe your mood in one word. The word cloud shows the energy of the room at a glance.
- Where are you joining from today? Great for hybrid meetings and conferences with guests from many places.
- Your perfect weekend in one word. Light, personal and always good for a laugh.
Quick choices
- Coffee or tea? Coffee, tea, both or neither. Everyone can answer in two seconds.
- Which superpower would help you most at work? Teleportation, reading minds, stopping time or being in two places at once.
- Morning person or night owl? A simple split that starts conversations.
Scales and open answers
- How is your energy level right now? A scale from 0 (exhausted) to 10 (full of energy) tells the facilitator how to pace the session.
- What do you expect from today? Open text answers appear as cards on the screen and you can hide any of them.
- One thing you learned last week. Short open answers that often turn into the best discussion of the day.
A one-question quiz
- A question about your own company. When was it founded, how many people work here, which product came first? Points, a speed bonus and a leaderboard turn it into a small competition.
Tips
- Prepare the polls in advance and launch them one after another with the Next poll button.
- Show results live for icebreakers, people love to see the bars move.
- Keep it to one or two polls, then move on.
Most of these polls are ready in the template library in English, Slovak, Czech and German. Create a free event and pick them in the Icebreakers category.