You're on the end of a 'horseshoe' seating arrangement with 20 other people. The trainer has just started by asking everybody to say their name and 'a bit about themselves' starting at the other end.
Part of you is in a cold sweat about what you're going to say in the 'bit about yourself'. Star sign? Hobbies? Do you have to be modest and make a joke - or swagger like beef on the hoof?
Part of you knows that it doesn't matter. By the time the attention is on you, everybody will have slightly forced smiles, a case of the fidgets and the desire to be somewhere else.
Welcome to Creeping Death.
Farr-out Links to Learning have a number of techy suggestions about keeping it random. They look fun and it's nice to see a way to use your projection screen to add energy to the room rather than sucking it out.
But just as good is to remember what Creeping Death is, how it feels and what it will do to your training session - whether at introductions OR later on when you're 'doing feedback'.
ANYTHING else is better.
[Image from betsymartian]
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