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Add the macro to your meeting notes page template in Confluence
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Select from the many categories of prompts available out-of-the-box
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Add team members to generate a random list of participants to kick-start the meeting
Inspiration
We’ve all been there: that awkward silence at the beginning of a meeting coupled with an exchange of wry smiles and a rogue cough as we desperately look for a way to start the conversation. Whether you’re meeting with a stranger or colleagues you’ve known for years, it’s always a struggle to follow-up the initial “How are you?” and “How’s the weather?” pleasantries.
Meeting Icebreakers for Confluence comes to the rescue with its 1,000+ icebreaker prompts that can help you effortlessly kickstart any meeting. Avoid the initial awkwardness and get to know your teammates a bit better before the official start of a meeting.
What it does
Meeting Icebreakers for Confluence is a simple macro to help you kick off a meeting by generating random icebreaker prompts. It makes your meetings more fun and engaging and gives everyone the chance to learn a little more about their colleagues. The app helps foster teamwork, improve hybrid work, and re-establish connections within teams after those gruelling months of Covid took a serious toll on our social skills.
– Generate random prompts from an in-built database of hundreds of questions spanning multiple categories.
– Choose from multiple categories like remote work, team building, funny, and more.
– Add participants to generate a random list of participants to kick-start the conversation in case no one wants to volunteer.
– Shuffle through the prompts until you find one that you really like.
Use Cases
Remote Team meetings
Add the macro to your meeting notes page templates so that a prompt will be automatically available when a new page is created before your meetings. Bonus: use Confluence automation to schedule your meeting notes page creation :slight_smile:
Employee Onboarding
Add 1-3 of the icebreaker macros to the onboarding Confluence page of your new hires to help them share interesting and fun facts right in their introductory blog post.
Sprint Naming Rituals
Instead of using random sprint name generators, make the ritual more personal with Meeting Icebreakers for Confluence. Add tow of the macros to your sprint retrospective page and ask two team members at random to answer those questions. Combine the responses to come up with your sprint name! Bonus: Use a text-to-image generation tool to come up with interesting pictures for your sprint names :slight_smile:
Run Plays from the Atlassian Team Playbook
You can use the “Team Connectedness” category in the app to run the Team Connectedness Play from the Atlassian Team Playbook to build stronger team relationships. You can also run the Icebreaker Activities from the playbook to foster team cohesiveness.
How we built it
Both the macro and the macro config were built entirely on the forge platform using the forge UI Kit.
Challenges we ran into
Given the simplicity of the app and the relative maturity of the forge platform over the year, we didn’t really run into any challenges.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We are proud to have built a production-ready app in a single afternoon and even more proud that we use the app internally almost every day to make our team meetings more fun and engaging.
What we learned
Development flow using forge Deploy an app with forge to production and share it with others Use forge UI kit to create confluence extensions Forge manifest scopes and permissions
What’s next for Meeting Icebreakers for Confluence
- Provide an option for users to add their own icebreaker questions
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