← Icebreakers
If Not This Job
Word cloudRemote or in person
The career you would have had instead.
One prompt, two or three words each, straight onto the screen as a cloud. Short enough to be a genuine warm-up and revealing enough that people carry on talking about it at the break.
Run this when…
The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.
- A five-minute warm-up before something longer
- A careers or development day
- A large webinar that needs quick participation
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.
- Two or three words, enforced. Given a sentence people write a career plan and the cloud turns to mush.
- Ask the two most surprising answers to say more. The cloud is the setup; the follow-up is the payoff.
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
- 3–300
- Runs for
- 4–8 min
- Where
- Remote or in person
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only
- Best for
- Getting acquainted
What it builds
communication