A great ice breaker for a team meeting is to go over everyone’s astrological signs together! This gives each team member a deeper understanding of the personality characteristics of the folks they work alongside everyday. Going over this together can open up the floor for strengths and weaknesses of each of the signs from a very high level without it being a direct conversation because every team member is in the hot seat at some point. This helps folks have a deeper understanding of the inherent nature of the individuals on their team.
How to do it:
First, gather the birthdates for all of the members on your team.
Second, Use a site like https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/ to print the zodiac overview for the sign of your team members under which their birth date falls. This site will allow you to see the entire overview and may have some areas like sex ad love that you don't want to print. We recommend including the traits section and career and money section for the purposes of this exercise.
Last, you can search the compatibility of each sign for career here https://www.astrology.com/compatibility/zodiac-signs/career.html
This is such a fun thing to do as a team! Great things to point out for each team member are how their personality relates to career and how they relate to others. When discussing these things together often people learn things about each other to help them better communicate! Not everyone knows about their own astrology so this exercise can help them have better awareness of themselves as well.
This is also a fun thing to do on an employee's first day. Having the birthdays of everyone in the office makes it easy to set up the dynamic for team members to work together effectively and introduce them to the team with a deeper understanding of the mix of personalities right off the bat.
Office drama happens. The vast difference of the characteristics of team members on the maintenance and office sides can sometimes be challenging to overcome. Starting from a place of understanding each other as individuals can really change the dynamics of the team quickly.
We hope you have fun doing this with your teams! Find stylecrate on https://www.instagram.com/stylecrate.co/ and https://www.facebook.com/stylecrate.co to let us know how it went!