Introduction - Joining a new team

Its become kind of a tardition to induct new joinees; and its a good practice. But there is no set pattern and there are various ways of doing so. I have gone through it a number of times. Earlier it used to be a general introduction either in a team meeting or going to the individual seats of the team members. But it seems to be different in my current company; where I have been through it a no of times. Here there is a team intro which is usually in a team meeting and then you are introduced to the entire account is an account meeting.

First time it happened in the induction batch where we were some 15 people. The things to do there was your general intro followed by your hobbies. A simple intro. The following sessions also had a round of intro usually on the same pattern but some had a nice ending (you can call it the desert) like your favourite actor/actress, least favourite actor/actress, etc.

The next time it happened was for a training batch where the batch was a chosen one, chosen from a large no of people. The intro here was same as mentioned above but this time followed by a movie you disliked (a nice idea just to put some fun in the process and it did turn out that way as people actually questioned others how could you dislike it).

This was not exactly an intro but a game involving intro. In this everyone had to form a pair and then your pair was to give your intro in the first person and then the others would ask questions from your pair about you. It was real fun. Here are a few examples -
A boy who paired with a girl was giving the intro of the girl (It was Nitin saying "Hi I am Rashmi"). And one of the questions asked to him (acting as a girl) was "What are you doing this weekend?".
In another case a guy paired with a married girl was asked "What's your husband's name?" and he couldn't answer.
In another case, where two guys A and B were paired, B comes and starts apeaking "Hi I am A and I am very stupid. I have this bad habit of ....". And the poor guy A stands there helplessly listening.

Then in the next intro after the usual thing people were asked to tell about 2 things that were unknown to others (Now this was too much; as it people didn't know much about you and so practically everything about you was unknown).

The next was when people had to sing a song after their brief intro. Now this was fun as this got people involved and brought in a comfort factor. Not many like to sing a song in public but it gives opportunity to people who like to sing but don't find audience :).

So I was kind of getting used to intros and thinking about what would be next. But my recent intro today (I joined a new team and today was the account meeting) turned out to be a plain simple one. And although I wanted it to be like this now that I am writing this blog I feel the previous intros were much more fun.