Ice Breakers, Islands, and Inspiration
18 new items worth reading this week including training for your team, 80 inspirational quotes, new tools and podcasts too.
For this week’s Big Idea, let’s talk about ice breakers.
Ice breakers are an easy way to start your meetings and gatherings with questions designed to build trust, connectedness, and psychological safety. They can help your team feel more like a team. This free tool has more than 200 questions that can help you and your team break the ice.
Islands, Innovation, and Starting Your Own Micronation
Islands can serve as incubators for innovation. Limited resources, isolation, and extreme conditions can force islanders to think outside the box. They are on the front lines when it comes to rising sea levels, melting ice, and changing notions about what it means to be independent.
Governments Look To Smart Islands For High Tech And Low Carbon Solutions
Greenland's Ice Is Melting at the Rate Scientists Thought Would Be Our Worst-Case Scenario in 2070
In Iceland, a Funeral for a Glacier and a Message to Future Generations
Quick Hits: Inspiration, Leadership, and I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With Milk
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission”
Digital Skills: Subject Lines, Content Strategy, UTM, and More
Content Strategy Training: Brand Awareness & Thought Leadership
Using New FAQ, HowTo, and Q&A Schema Types to Create Interactive Rich Google Search Results
This Tool Lets You Build, Share, and Sync Your UTM Campaign Tags
Listen Up: Heard of the Farms Race? Ready for the Big One?
Podcast: How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War Aisle upon aisle of fresh produce, cheap meat, and sugary cereal — a delicious embodiment of free-market capitalism, right? Not quite.
Podcast: The Big One: Your Survival Guide When The Big One hits it'll take under two minutes for more than 10 million Southern Californians to lose internet, power, and a sense of security.