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Inspirational Quotes: Great opener activity

This is a brilliant activity to introduce meeting ideas, focus thinking around a specific theme or generate creative thinking. Print off inspirational quotes that are relevant to your meeting or event, place these quotes in a basket and ask people to draw one as they enter the room. Below we have provided Team Building quotes, other themes maybe, commitment, power, leadership, trust.

Invite participants to find a partner and share both their quotes to one another. Ask them to reflect on what the author meant by the words and they might relate to the purpose of your being here today. On a flip chart create questions to guide reflection.

Questions: Does it have a different meaning today than when it was written?

Is it true to your personal world or your professional world?

If this quote was to have a more a more powerful meaning for you, how would you change it?

Source Faith Evans, 99 of the best experiential corporate games we know.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.- Henry Ford

Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.
- Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year

We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
- Lewis B. Ergen

A championship team is a team of champions.
- Unknown

Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
- Unknown

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Unknown

Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
- Doug Smith

We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.
- Unknown

A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!
Bonnie Edelstein

A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
Swahili proverb

Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team.
- Buchholz and Roth

A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value.
- Unknown

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan

None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Ken Blanchard