From Connection to Collaboration: An Icebreaker Workshop for Chiefs of Staff
🗓️ Join us on September 22nd!
From Connection to Collaboration is a one-hour workshop built for the people who keep every meeting, project, and team from flying apart.
You'll leave with a toolkit of icebreakers that spark real conversation (not eye-rolls), plus the "why, when, and how long" behind using them — because a great icebreaker at the wrong moment is just... awkward. Expect practical tools you can use in your very next meeting, delivered with the kind of energy that makes people actually want to show up.
💡 Key Takeaways
A ready-to-use icebreaker toolkit — questions and prompts that spark real conversation, connection, and sometimes surprising creativity
The "when and why" of icebreakers — how to match the icebreaker to the moment, so it lands instead of landing flat
Time-budgeting guidance — how to size icebreakers to the meeting, from a quick 60-second bite to a bigger connection-building moment
Tools you can use tomorrow — nothing theoretical, everything walks out the door with you
🎯 Ideal Audience
You're the one keeping the team together. From project management to strategic planning, team leadership to actually listening to what people need — you're the heart and soul of the operation. The glue. The translator between six competing calendars. Possibly, on a bad week, a professional cat herder. This session is for Chiefs of Staff (and anyone who plays that role without the title) who want their meetings to feel less like task-checking and more like actual human connection — without adding another hour to everyone's day.
✅ How to Show Up
Come ready to actually participate — this isn't a sit-back-and-watch kind of hour. Bring your curiosity, your sense of humor, and a willingness to try something new (even if it feels a little silly at first — the good ones usually do). And if you've got a tried-and-true icebreaker of your own that's never failed you, bring that too. We're building a shared toolkit, not just handing you mine.
🎙️ More about the Speaker
Over the past two decades, Lindsay Barnett has dedicated her career to transforming workplace cultures, leaders, teams, and individuals in Fortune 500 companies and growing startups. Finding herself a bit “corporate crispy”, she left the corporate world and is now the Founder and CEO of Barnett Coaching, a boutique coaching and consulting firm helping individuals and teams thrive. Concerned about the state of well-being in the workplace, Lindsay wrote her award-winning book, Working Hell to Working Well, as a guide for people to discover new choices and find their voices at work.
💜 Ask a Chief of Staff
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