Team Building Animals

Wednesday, I put up a favorite ice breaker / team building activity and several of you wrote to ask how the rest of it went. Now, it’s fun in a meeting to use just the favorite color part, but I’ll finish the rest of the ice breaker for you this week. It’s been years since I stumbled across this ice breaker. I don’t know who to attribute it to and I may not have it perfectly right, but here goes – part two. (There are three parts.)

Today’s question is to name your favorite animal and, in a few words, describe how you feel / what you think of when you think of that animal. Another way to think about it is: if you were to be reincarnated as an animal, which animal would you choose?

My personal favorite animal is a dog. I think of dogs as intelligent, loving, caretaking, fiercely loyal and protective, and affectionate. (But the truth is, I’m lucky. I had a wonderful Airedale Terrier living with me (and loving me) for 18 years.)

Please share your chosen animal and the words you would use to describe it in “comments.”

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40th Human Resources Blog Carnival

The new blog carnival is up over at McArthur’s Rant. If you’ve been following the HR Carnival, you know that there are two terrific reasons to visit. There are a lot of experienced HR, management, and consultant writers and this gives you an opportunity to familiarize yourself with a group of them all in one place. And, they only turn in their best blogs to the Carnival because they know you’ll be visiting.

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