Active Break
A physical jumping exercise performed by jumping both feet out and reaching arms overhead.
What are jumping jacks?
DBS is an acronym for this approach.
What is Danaher Business System?
This involves sitting upright and relaxed in your chair. Inhaling slowly through your nose and exhaling slowly through your mouth.
What is deep breathing?
Miami has the largest concentration of this type of architecture in the world.
What is Art Deco?
This icebreaker activity involves each participant sharing three statements about themselves, one of which is untrue.
What is two truths and a lie?
This involves standing up, bending your knee, and grabbing your ankle until you feel the stretch. Repeat with the other leg.
What are quad stretches?
Continuous improvement.
What is Kaizen?
This activity involves contemplating oneself – one’s character, actions and motives. An example includes identifying 5 qualities about yourself you are thankful for.
What is self reflection?
This park was named after Miami’s baseball team.
What is Marlins Park?
What is rock, paper, scissors?
These are the two orange squares in the meeting that help us get up and move.
What are activity dice?
Thomas Joyce Jr.
Who is Danaher's CEO?
This technique can be done by oneself or with guided instruction or music. It involves resting the mind, focusing it inward, while relaxing the body.
What is meditation?
Florida Bay is home to these 2 reptiles. (The only place on earth to hold this distinction)
What are crocodiles and alligators?
A phrase you say to show appreciation to someone who has recently helped you in some way.
What is saying thank you?
This is beneficial to do for 10 minutes every 90 minutes during the work day.
What is standing?
Danaher’s shared purpose.
What is Helping Realize Life’s Potential?
This involves starting with your feet and working up, focusing on tensing and releasing each muscle group in your body.
What is muscle relaxation?
Miami Heat.
What is Miami’s basketball team?
This party game poses a dilemma in the form of a question, giving you two options to choose from.
What is ‘Would You Rather?’?
This involves standing up and simply placing your wrists on the desk so they face away from you and applying pressure until you feel the stretch. Hold and then follow with wrist circles.
What is a wrist stretch?
1984.
When was Danaher founded?
A mental attitude in which you expect good and favorable results. An exercise to begin thinking this way may involve identifying a negative experience in your life and spinning it favorably.
What is positive thinking?
This is a movie that was shot in Miami (list one).
What are Marley and Me, Scarface, The Godfather II, Iron Man 3, Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2?
Baseball, soccer, football, basketball, etc.
What are sports?