{"id":12108,"date":"2022-01-20T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:02:23","slug":"100-icebreaker-questions-your-coworkers-will-actually-want-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/100-icebreaker-questions-your-coworkers-will-actually-want-to-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ Icebreaker Questions Your Coworkers Will Actually Want to Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Regina Borsellino<\/a>
Re-posted from The Muse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How many times have you been in a meeting or new group setting and had to share a \u201cfun\u201d fact about yourself? After a while, it gets pretty tiring. If you struggle when put on the spot, it might even cause anxiety. So instead of something so broad, you might suggest using a more specific icebreaker question at your next meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIcebreaker questions can help bring people together and foster a sense of engagement\u201d right from the start of an event, says Muse career coach\u00a0Ravi Raman<\/a>. And that\u2019s crucial, as low levels of engagement can lead to wasted time and worse outcomes in whatever the group is looking to achieve from their time together. (Have you ever sat in awkward silence waiting for one of your…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[READ ON<\/a> just a few to get you started.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Regina BorsellinoRe-posted from The Muse How many times have you been in a meeting or new group setting and had to share a \u201cfun\u201d fact about yourself? After a while, it gets pretty tiring. If you struggle when put on the spot, it might even cause anxiety. So instead of something so broad, you might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[935],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-job-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2016\/03\/The-Muse-logo.png?fit=203%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-39i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12112,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/12112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}