More conference call games and activities
Use random words in your meeting
- Close your eyes and select any word from a book and try to slip it unnoticed into a conference call.
- Try some of our favourite words (definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com):
We hope you enjoy the appropriateness of the following words to the corporate environment as much as we do!
- Abulia – loss or impairment of the ability to make decisions or act independently
- Bloviate – to speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
- Perambulate – to walk about; to roam; to stroll
- Vacillate – to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another
- Parsimony – unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess
- Pervicacious – refusing to change one’s ideas, behaviour, etc.; stubborn; obstinate
- Ostensible – represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so
- Fulsome – insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise
- Purblind – lacking in insight or discernment
- Flummery – empty compliment; unsubstantial talk or writing; mumbo jumbo; nonsense
- Flaneur – one who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer
- Sciolism – superficial knowledge
- Camarilla – a group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique
- Afflatus – a divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration
- Inveigle – To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery
- Tergiversation – The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous
- Scapegrace – A reckless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless; a rascal; a scoundrel.
- Pygalgia – Medical term meaning pain in the buttocks
Phrases Not to Use on Conference Calls
- This beats working
- Pass the bottle
- It’s your round
- Can they hear us?
- Don’t worry, they can’t see us
- Does he/she ever stop talking?
- I’m glad this is not being recorded
- FULL HOUSE – for players of Conference Call Bingo
- Let’s agree not to make a decision, then we can have another meeting!
- Thin crust please
- How do you stop red wine staining carpet?
More meeting activities
- Learn to touch type, or impress a colleague by pretending
- Search eBay for the most obscure item you can think of
- Learn origami
- Make a start on that novel
- Define the three household items you would take on a desert island
- Make a list of the 6 people you would invite to a dinner party if you could choose anybody from any time in history
- Clear your inbox of emails – OK no conference call is that boring