Choosing Your Topic One of the keys to whether a warm-up will be effective is how relevant it is to the needs of the group.
Most meetings are hybrids of more than one type.
In short, before you pick a topic, decide what you want the warm-up to accomplish with the group. Then, determine how exactly you are going to do this, in terms of what information you are going to present, and what types of responses you need to get from the group. While it isn't necessary to give a detailed synopsis of what you plan to dsicuss, it doesn't work to just start talking about something. An introduction can be vague, but it has to be there. For example, one of our supervisors gave a warm-up recently which he began simply by saying that he had some recent government statistics about telemarketing which he wanted to share with the group before moving on to something else.