Technical skills are very important in the workplace. Soft skills are just as important. Icebreakers can be a fun tool to help build soft skills across teams and departments.

You can have all the technical expertise in the world, but if you can’t connect with your colleagues you may fail. I’ve said often enough that we spend too much time at work not to enjoy what we are doing and whom we are working with. If we cannot connect as a team, we will be less effective in our efforts. Even those...