Future Headlines

What Is Future Headlines?

Future Headlines is a creative ice breaker game that gets coworkers to tap into their imagination and sense of humor. Players come up with wild, funny, or inspiring news headlines that could describe their company or team in the future.

The goal is to spark creativity. Bonus points if you make your team laugh.

Future Headlines Rules

1. Gather everyone either in person or via video conferencing.
2. Have each person take a turn imagining a future scenario involving the company or team — and then use their idea to create a headline for a newspaper. Encourage everyone to be as creative and humorous as they can.
3. Go around and encourage everyone to share their headline.
4. After all the headlines are shared, vote on the most creative or funniest one.

Future Headlines Examples

• "Company XYZ Develops Revolutionary Coffee That Increases Productivity by 200%!"
• "Team Alpha Wins Global Innovation Award with Their 'Office on the Moon' Concept"
• "Local Office Hailed as Greenest Workplace: Plants Outnumber Employees"
• "Tech Team Designs AI That Predicts Client Needs Before They Even Know Them"
• "HR Department Implements Four-Day Workweek, Employee Happiness Soars!"

How to Play Future Headlines on Livestorm

1. Start a Livestorm event and invite your team.
2. Kick off the game by explaining the rules and setting a creative and fun tone.
3. Use the whiteboard feature to note down participants' headlines as they share.
4. Encourage everyone to use emoji reactions, and use polls to vote for favorite headlines.
5. If you use breakout rooms, split the main group into smaller teams to brainstorm and come up with collective headlines. Bring everyone back together and share the breakout teams' headlines. Then, use the polling feature to pick the overall favorite.