Ice Breakers can be an effective way of starting a training session or team-building event. As interactive and often fun sessions run before the main proceedings, they help people get to know each other and buy into the purpose of the event. If an ice breaker session is well-designed and well-facilitated, it can really help get things off to a great start. By getting to know each other, getting to know the facilitators and learning about the objectives of the event, people can become more engaged in the proceedings and so contribute more effectively towards a successful outcome. But have you ever been to an event when the ice breaker session went badly? Just as a great ice breaker session can smooth the way for a great event, so a bad ice breaker session can be a recipe for disaster. A bad ice breaker session is at best simply a waste of time, or worse an embarrassment for everyone involved. As a facilitator, the secret of a successful icebreaking session is to keep it simple: Design the session with specific objectives in mind and make sure the session is appropriate and comfortable for everyone involved.

As the name suggests, an ice breaker session is designed to “break the ice” at an event or meeting. The technique is often used when people who do not usually work together, or may not know each other at all, meet for a specific, common purpose.

Consider using an ice breaker when:
* Participants come from different backgrounds;
* People need to bond quickly so as to work towards a common goal;
* Your team is newly formed;
* The topics you are discussing are new or unfamiliar to many people involved; or
* As facilitator you need to get to know participants and have them know you better.

If you are bringing together like-minded people, the “ice” may simply reflect the fact that people have not yet met. If you are bringing together people of different grades and levels in your organization for an open discussion, the “ice” may come from the difference in status between participants. If you are bringing together people of different backgrounds, cultures and outlooks for work within your community, then the “ice” may come from people’s perceptions of each other. You’ll need to handle these differences sensitively. Only focus on what’s important to your event. And as you move on to design and facilitate the event, it’s always best to focus on similarities (rather than differences), such as a shared interest in the event’s outcome.

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It takes three seconds for someone to evaluate you when you meet for the first time. In this short time, the other person forms an opinion about you based on your appearance, your body language, your demeanor, your mannerisms, and how you are dressed. With every new encounter, you are evaluated and yet another person’s impression of you is formed. These first impression can be nearly impossible to reverse or undo, making those first encounters extremely important, for they set the tone for the all the relationships that follows. So, whether they are in your career or social life, it’s important to know how to create a good first impression.

1. Be On Time
The person you are meeting for the first time is not interested in your “good excuse” for running late. Plan to arrive a few minutes early. And allow flexibility for possible delays in traffic or taking a wrong turn. Arriving early is much better that arriving late, hands down, and is the first step in creating a great first impression.

2. Be Yourself, Be at Ease
If you are feeling uncomfortable and on edge, this can make the other person ill at ease and that’s a sure way to create the wrong impression. If you are calm and confident, so the other person will feel more at ease, and so have a solid foundation for making that first impression a good one.

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Somehow some people feel that he can do something because they feel that he is a weak person. In fact that he is a strong person, but he have weak self confidence and make he feel he can’t do something well. Building Self confidence is very important in everyone’s life. Self confidence is one’s opstimistic mental toward oneself to do everything well and ability to socialize her/himselft to enviroment. By having a good self confidence, someone will feel that life is enjoyable. Meanwhile, self confidence greatly support one’s activity. Do you have any problems with your self confidence? if yes, it should be improved soon. Otherwise you will be insecure. Insecure will make you hestitate in doing and deciding something. It means that you will be indecisire whether you can do something well, if it keeps going what you have your minds is only failure. Don’t do that! Self confidence is coming from one’s self. be sure that you can do what others can do. If you want to improve your self confidence try this advise. Improve your performance, not only physically but psychologically. By improving your physical performance, others will see your existence and respect you positively. Another one is improving the mental performance, show the others that you have good characteristic. Good characteristic will support the other’s image on you. Identify your success, by identify your sucess you can improve your mental and think that you can do something well. Do something for others, helping others can increase someone’s confidence, everyone wants to be an important person in their life. By doing something helpfull for others, they will think that you are an important person too. Increase your knowledge, by having a lot of knowledge you will be able to talk about many thing and this make yourself getting more respect from the other’s. Forget your failure, by forget your failure and learning from that failure we can improve yourself and don’t ,make any same mistake in future.