Fun Pet Quadrant Ice Breaker

Fun Quadrant Ice breaker

Are you a cat person? Dog person? Both or other? This quick quadrant exercise has proven to be a great conversation starter with all sorts of audiences. Even if people don't have pets they still tend to have an opinion on cats and dogs :) It's also inclusive by allowing people to add icons of other animals to the mix.

Helps You achieve..

Any great icebreaker should be efficient, and engaging and should spark open warm conversation. As long as the instructions are given clearly this one delivers on all 3 fronts. I've heard things like, "I worked with Tim for 5 years and never knew he had rescued 7 dogs!"

Helps to use it..

1. Have people fill out a post-it (in the left arrow) with their first name, last initial & the type/ # of pets they have now.

2. Ask everyone to simultaneously place their post-its in the quadrant. Horizontal axis is "Are you more a cat person (place more towards the left) or a dog person (place more towards the right or place in the middle if you love both or are neutral)? The vertical axis represents how many pets people currently have.

3. Talk about what insights the quadrant reveals about the group. Are there outliers with many pets? Does this group love cats and dogs equally or lean more in one direction? Does someone have other interesting pets or a wild number of pets?

Who benefits most?

I have used this ice-breaker with many different groups of people & gotten great engagement :)