← Icebreakers
Acronym Amnesty
Word cloudRemote or in person
Submit the internal jargon you have never dared ask about.
Anonymous submissions of every acronym, system name and internal phrase people nod along to without understanding. The screen fills, the room laughs, and then someone explains each one. Extraordinarily useful in the first month of any merger.
Run this when…
The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.
- The first month after a merger
- An onboarding cohort
- Any company past about 200 people
How it runs
Everyone types a short answer and it lands on the big screen as it arrives.
- 1You start a session and put the code on the big screen.
- 2Everyone joins on their phone — no app, no sign-up, just the code.
- 3You drive the pace from the host screen; the room answers as they go.
- 4Ending the session builds the report, with every answer in it.
Running it well
Only the host sees these. Participants never do.
- Anonymous, always. The people who most need this are the ones least willing to admit it by name.
- Keep the list. It is a glossary, and someone should put it in the handbook by Friday.
Run it yourself
Free for thirty days, no card. Add it, share the code, and your room is playing in about fifteen seconds.
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At a glance
- Players
- 5–300
- Runs for
- 6–14 min
- Where
- Remote or in person
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only
- Best for
- Mixing across teams
What it builds
communicationcollaboration