If in the new year at work. How to celebrate the new year at work. Preparing for New Year's Eve
1. Set an unusual New Year's table
If you can't refuse home gatherings, at least diversify the table with treats that you have never tried. Let there not be a single familiar dish and drink on your table. Try the cuisine of another country, ask for recipes delicious meals friends and make your own cocktails - alcoholic or not.
There is still a lot of time before the New Year, so you will have time to make an unusual menu.
By the way, if you decide to cook traditional dishes other nations, why not celebrate the holiday in the style of the country whose cuisine you have chosen?
2. Join the traditions of another country
It's another way to meet New Year with relatives and friends, but make it unusual and memorable. Decorate your home in the style of another country. For example, Japanese kadomatsu or Chinese lanterns and pictures with wishes.
Give each other special gifts, such as homemade candles in Sweden, dogwood sticks in Bulgaria, paired items like cups or candles in China.
10. Celebrate the New Year on a plane
As a rule, plane tickets become more expensive on the eve of the holidays, as people tend to celebrate the New Year already on the spot. And on the dates of the holidays themselves, on the contrary, tickets become much cheaper.
If you take tickets for December 31, you will kill two birds with one stone: save on the road and get an unusual experience of celebrating the New Year a few kilometers above the ground.
The more interesting you spend this day, the more chances you have for a New Year's miracle.
And how did you celebrate your brightest and most memorable New Year? Share your experience in the comments.
Instruction
Get the manager's consent. As a rule, the first thoughts about the meeting of the New Year arise in the team by the end of autumn. Catching general mood, take a couple of colleagues in support and go to the boss. Only he can make the final decision on the form, place and holding of the corporate party. In addition, without the signature of the head, the accounting department will not allocate money for preparation.
Create an initiative group. Include in it cheerful, energetic, smart, talented, artistic. In a word, find a task for each employee according to their strengths and abilities. Your colleagues should know in advance who hangs the garlands and who serves the buffet table. Entrust the role of the leader to an employee who has a great vocabulary, well-delivered speech and able to quickly respond to non-standard situations.
Think about the format of the New Year's Eve event. In youth companies, theme parties are successfully held: gangster New Year, New Year in disco style, tropical New Year, etc. For a multi-age team the best option becomes a masquerade. It is not necessary for this to transform into representatives of the forest fauna. It will be enough spectacular masks and additions in the form of hats and gloves.
Write a script for the holiday. Depending on the main theme, set the central intrigue of the evening. Let, for example, evil competitors steal the key to the hearts of customers. And the whole evening, the "Sherlock Holmes" of your company will solve puzzles and pass competitive tasks that bring them closer to the solution. Of course, the boss must find the treasured key. Connect the idea of a holiday with the activities of the company in the outgoing year, enlivening it with popular corporate jokes, stories and signs.
Include congratulations and awards in the script. Let the leader set the tone for the event at the beginning of the evening, summing up the results of the year and noting the best employees. In the future, give team members the opportunity to make their own celebratory speeches. Read aloud the congratulations received from customers and partners.
Pick up the musical accompaniment of the party. Record the songs on a separate disc in the order in which they will sound. Then you don't have to waste time searching for a melody.
Decorate the office. In the hall where the main part of the event will take place, set up tables and chairs, providing a convenient passage. Hang New Year's paraphernalia - garlands, Christmas balls, snowflakes. If you celebrate the New Year in a certain style, the design should match it.
Usually, the celebration of the corporate New Year is held on the eve of a calendar holiday, or after it (for example, on the old New Year).
We offer an approximate scenario for holding a corporate New Year for a team of 30-70 people, lasting 5-7 hours.
For the event you will need:
Prizes and gifts.
Event plan:
Official congratulations.
Memories game.
Election of the honorary Santa Claus.
Elections of the Snow Maiden.
Astrological forecast for office workers.
Scenario
Official congratulations
It is best to start the holiday with an official congratulation from the company's management (director, heads of departments). Congratulations should not be prolonged, it is advisable to spend it with humor, jokes and New Year's poems. You should not use a congratulatory speech for an official report on the work done, just briefly summarize the year and be sure to thank all the employees.
Depending on the number of participants and the premises in which the celebration takes place, the nature of the banquet may vary. Guests can be seated at one large table or small tables. Participants can take their seats immediately upon arrival at the celebration or after the official congratulations.
On such long holidays as the New Year, it is not recommended to arrange a buffet table. Even if a common feast is not expected, it is necessary to provide a sufficient number of seats for the participants.
Game "Memories"
This game can be offered during a feast. Any number of people participate in the game. Players take turns naming an event (preferably pleasant or funny) that happened in the firm (or directly related to it) during the past year. Anyone who cannot remember any event is out of the game. The last player remaining in the game receives a prize.
The game can be stopped earlier by rewarding several participants. The best prize in the game will be a notebook.
In addition, at the table, you can hold a competition for the best wish for the company or your department for the next year. It is most convenient if the wishes are in the form of toasts. The jury, made up of the company's management, selects the winners, who are awarded the prizes. As a prize for this competition, a bottle of champagne or other wine is most suitable.
Election of the honorary Santa Claus
After the bulk of the guests are satisfied, you can offer some more active entertainment. The host announces the competition of the honorary Santa Claus. Those wishing to take part in the competition are invited to the stage. The following competitions are held between them:
Snowflake
frosty breath
Red nose
The applicant who has scored the most prize points is declared an honorary Santa Claus. He puts on a Santa Claus mask or a red Santa Claus hat. If several participants in the competition scored the same number of points, you can choose Santa Claus by lottery or appoint several participants to this honorary position at the same time.
Elections of the Snow Maiden
new year song
Santa's request
Santa Claus names 5-7 items that he needs. The participant who finds and brings these items earlier than others receives a bonus point.
Items can be very diverse: fruits, jewelry, a glass of some kind of drink, pieces of clothing (the intimacy of which depends on the looseness of the company) and shoes. Participants should ask other guests for the necessary things, find them on the festive table or among their own things.
Affectionate granddaughter
The participant who scores more than the other points is declared the winner and appointed by the Snow Maiden. In the event that several contenders for this role scored the same number of points, the final word remains with Santa Claus.
After the election of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, they can give all guests small memorable gifts (for example, boxes of chocolates).
north and south wind
The game requires two participants and one snowflake cut at the Santa Claus contest. The snowflake is placed on the table, the participants take places on opposite sides of the table. At the command of the leader, the players begin to blow on the snowflake, trying to throw it off the table from the opponent's side. Whoever succeeds will receive a prize.
After several pairs of participants try their hand at this competition, those who wish are invited to do the same, but blindfolded. The draw consists in the fact that after the participants are blindfolded, the snowflake is replaced by a saucer with flour, on which the participants begin to blow.
If there is no certainty that the participants will perceive such a prank with humor, it is better to limit yourself to the usual rules of the game. In any case, it is not recommended to involve women in the draw.
Rehashes about winter
This game is best played during a feast. Participants can be divided into teams. Each participant (or team) takes turns singing a verse of a song about winter. The participant who finds it difficult to make his move is out. The last player (or team of players) remaining in the game receives a prize.
Also a party game. Participants take turns calling any date starting from January 1st. In this case, the next participant changes the day or month in the date named by the previous participant, and the named date must be later.
For instance:
Thus, the named dates are getting closer and closer to December 31st. The participant who has to name this date loses and performs a penalty task assigned by other participants.
Astrological forecast for office workers
For the entertainment of guests, one of the participants can dress up as a fortune teller or an astrologer. The simplest prediction is to find zodiac horoscope next year (preferably comic) and read it.
Another option - the host can inform the guests about the new discovery of astrologers and modern magicians. Everyone knows the zodiac, Chinese, flower horoscopes and the horoscope of the Druids. But now a new horoscope has appeared - office workers (if this name does not quite fit the company's activities, it is possible to modify the proposed forecasts, making them more relevant for this organization).
Examples of a comic office horoscope:
Next year, you will become the best support for your work colleagues and loved ones in serious matters. However, try at least sometimes to succumb to worldly temptations, and not to waste all your strength on work.
The suggested horoscope can also be written on posters that decorate the room. In this case, it is necessary to make appropriate explanations for it.
As an active recreation, you can organize dances or hold a few more Games.
Russian people love holidays. But he does not know how to walk so that it is not excruciatingly painful for his behavior. Meanwhile, the culture of corporate behavior and, in particular, fun is emerging before our eyes. It turns out with surprise: a celebration in the native team is not much different from a kindergarten matinee - the same prepared poems, a home-made wall newspaper, cute gifts. And - a lot of fun. So the Christmas celebrations are coming. How to celebrate them and how to behave?The tale of the priest and his worker Balda
"Once upon a cold winter time" the director of one company decided to arrange a festivities on the occasion of the New Year. He called his associates - deputies and confidants, and they decided to go with the whole team to a small restaurant, which is not far from the office.
Decided - done. We booked a hall, ordered bread and salt, and on December 29, right from work, everyone came to the appointed place, starting with the general director and ending with loaders and forwarders. Large clients of the company, partners, close friends of the director and necessary people. In short, the party gathered what it needed.
Mutual New Year's greetings - from management to employees and vice versa - took about fifteen minutes. Then there was music, dancing, drunk movers crawling on the marble floor of the lobby, and quiet squeezing in the corners. In general, the holiday went well. Everyone said a lot of pleasant words to each other, everyone was satisfied with the amount they had drunk, eaten, suffered and felt.
...After the Christmas holidays, the director called his deputy and offered to fire a couple of employees. One - because he was too drunk, the second - because he seduced a promising manager, who, moreover, had recently married. "The moral character of the team is the most precious thing to me!" - the boss was indignant, deep down offended that the young employee did not choose him.
So the result of the New Year's Eve turned out to be very sad for two. On the other hand, the director decided to raise another employee - who perfectly composed New Year's greetings in verse - and gave him a large salary.
The moral of this fable is this: even on the brightest holidays, being before the clear eyes of the leadership, do not relax too much. Mobilize your creativity. The impression that you make on others should be pleasant always and in all respects.
A word about sobriety addressed to alcoholics
Both respectable and novice Russian businessmen have already realized that the New Year is both a family and a public holiday, which simply needs to be celebrated by the whole team. After all, it is no secret that tensions between employees often arise involuntarily: they simply belong to different generations, to different nationalities (in foreign companies). It can be easier for them to understand each other by communicating in an informal setting.
A joint meeting of the New Year can make the atmosphere in the company more friendly. In some companies, it is customary to treat important clients and top managers separately, and arrange a more democratic and cheaper party for the rest of the team. Such tactics are not devoid of logic, the main thing is that one holiday does not take place at the expense of another and the team is not divided into "native" and "adopted" children. The best way out is to clearly separate both events in time and space.
Everyone who organizes New Year's celebrations has a lot of questions, in particular, where and how to hold them. It all depends on the circumstances and traditions: big Western firms prefer expensive restaurants and treat employees (and their wives, husbands and children) in such a way that after the New Year's Eve one has to go on a diet for a week. In Russian companies, it is more customary to celebrate the New Year on December 29 and 30 after the working day right at the workplace.
By the way, firms have finally appeared in Russia that are ready to take on the chores of organizing a table in the office. According to gourmets, Potel & Chabot provides the highest quality services.
A buffet table organized right in the office has its advantages: it requires minimal effort from employees. No need to run home to change clothes, no need to rack your brains with whom to leave the children, take your spouse with you or not. After all, corporate holidays do not exist to feed everyone to the full and drink to insensibility, but to show how we mutually respect each other.
In general, the art of behavior at a corporate holiday is to express a friendly disposition to everyone, to demonstrate all your talents, which, perhaps, it is difficult for you to show during working hours, but at the same time not to cross the line and not sign up with colleagues or with your boss friends.
Unconditional rules of corporate celebrations: you can’t get drunk to a complete blackout and seduce colleagues. (Although it is violated everywhere, and we, recalling this elementary truth, become like enthusiasts agitating in a pub for a sober lifestyle.)
Do not forget that even during the most carefree holiday you are at work. And if the spirit of adventurism seethes in your blood, let off steam at the first restaurant or disco that comes across, but not among the people you work with. Let your colleagues not know the whole truth about you - remain a mystery to them.
It is not bad to observe the measure in the festive decoration of workplaces: A smart Christmas tree in the office for the New Year will certainly cheer you up. But garlands hanging like creepers in every office are superfluous.
Holidays in women's and men's groups are distinguished by treats: women love sweets, while men love sweets and drink more. If among colleagues there are people with an unsettled personal life, one must show tact. Do not arrange, for example, dances (when there are few gentlemen) or children's matinees - perhaps such an event will cause shock for childless people.
The tone of celebrations, as a rule, is set by the boss. This does not mean at all that he is obliged to be a toastmaster (each team has its own resilient mass entertainer), but to make a welcoming speech, to thank the team for their efforts, is his first duty. If the team is small, do not be too lazy to say a few kind words about each. If there is a whole factory subordinate, thank each division - the departments of production, sales, advertising, accounting.
Should the boss take part in the dances, and whom should he choose to pair with? The boss should dance only with the most diligent employee, with the leader of production. Perhaps this will create an incentive for the rest of the team to work (especially if the team is female). But the choice according to the principle "I like her as a woman" is capable of destroying any incentives to work.
In general, the worthy behavior of the boss has a beneficial effect on the atmosphere of collective festivities and does not allow employees to cross the line of decency. If the employees of decency have already crossed over, it is better for the boss to leave - and take action after the fact. In relation to the boss, the subordinate at the New Year's holiday is in a more advantageous position: at least he does not have to dance with the foreman of production. Of course, you can bend over and, as in Schwartz's fairy tale, praise your boss: they say, honestly, you are a genius, your majesty! Or take a chance and have a heart-to-heart talk with the boss - the benefit was such an opportunity. But, who knows, maybe in a heart-to-heart conversation you will tell something about yourself that the boss should not know at all. It is much wiser to show your enterprise and initiative.
Remember everything you were taught in the pioneer camp: read poetry, compose charades, dance, act out an impromptu performance. Be sure: your boss will unwittingly take note of your successes in amateur performances.
In one firm, a negligent employee, constantly on the verge of being fired, saved himself by singing perfectly to the guitar. As soon as they were going to calculate it, someone's birthday happened, and the guitarist was left in the same place for soulful songs. He was fired only when he lost his paychecks.
Everything goes according to plan
The main thing is to plan the holiday correctly. In the company where I work, back in December we held a special training, which was attended by two or three people from each department. In a little over an hour, we managed to find out what we expect from the New Year, what each of us can do and who will be responsible for what. Now each department will contribute to the preparation, and this is what is called corporate culture. Today we enthusiastically took up the organization of the holiday, and tomorrow we will also "harness" together for a new commercial project. So, doing such a "secondary and optional" business, we are preparing ourselves for serious work.
In another progressive company, employees organized a New Year's performance. With modest forces, they played the Russian folk tale about the turnip First came the director - grandfather. He planted a turnip - a company. She grew up big and big. Grandfather pulls - pulls, can't pull. He called his grandmother - an accountant. Then - Zhuchka, sales department. Then Murka "in a leather jacket" - the security service. Then the mouse - the advertising department. And, as you know, by common efforts they pulled out a root crop.
The team was absolutely delighted. Nothing warms the soul like the contemplation of one's own person.- whether on stage performed by one of the colleagues, whether in a festive wall newspaper. After all, all these are signs of attention and recognition of your contribution to the common cause. Bring this joy to yourself and your colleagues!
You need to dress wisely for the New Year's celebration, after all, you will have to spend a good half of the day at the workplace. A business suit can be turned into a festive one with the help of small details - a bright tie or a light scarf. But even the most elegant dress should not be defiant. Do not focus on yourself with a skirt to the signs of sex or a deep neckline.
Sometimes the organizers take care of New Year's costumes. For example, put on holiday tables unpretentious masks, caps, spouts, ears and other attributes carnival costume. Even these little things will be enough for people to have fun from the heart, distracted for a while from everyday worries.
New Year's surprises
Since childhood, we are used to receiving gifts from Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. Over the years, little has changed: in each of us there lives such a child who, with hope and excitement, is waiting for surprises and unusual congratulations.
Greeting Cards business partners and large clients - a necessary element of business etiquette. It's hard to get over here. You can not limit yourself to the general official: "Happy New Year!", But separately congratulate the managers and secretaries with whom you have to work. You can send souvenirs with company symbols by mail, but it is better to hand them in person. a good gift for customers will be a message about Christmas discounts.
Undoubtedly, bonuses at the end of the year will serve as an incentive to work. Having received such a reward, the employees of the company are transformed before our eyes, they, figuratively speaking, grow wings.
Do not forget to congratulate the children of your subordinates. Buying tickets for a New Year's performance and sweet gifts is not too troublesome and expensive, but every mother will be touched to the core. It would seem, what a trifle, take it and add $20 to everyone's salary for gifts for kids. And people, it turns out, just need attention. And no surcharges in the middle of the year will compensate for his absence.
Do not spare the money, gentlemen leaders, send an enterprising employee to the "Children's World" - let him buy gifts for children, and for adults too.
Perhaps it will be an inexpensive table clock, mugs, T-shirts with advertising inscriptions, or a folder for papers. All these little things will help employees feel like part of a team where their abilities and talents are highly valued.
Let subordinates understand that the best new year gift- the opportunity to work in your excellent company. And as soon as this simple thought, with the help of compliments, gifts, awards and other human tokens, reaches their consciousness, your company is really on long years will become prosperous.
As an event organizer, I know how important it is to create a pre-holiday atmosphere in the office so that people who come here every day, usually at the same time, feel at home, i.e. were able to relax and recharge their batteries before the New Year.
From my own experience, I can say with confidence that in any office there are caring people who make up the organizational backbone. They always make sure that everyone around is well, they take the initiative by buying gifts for others on memorable dates, in a word, they devote themselves to social work. Sometimes, with their organizational activities, they cause dissatisfaction with ordinary employees, but just think: who, if not them, will drag all this stuff on themselves?
It is these people who, at the end of November, are the first to react to the approach of the holiday and remind their colleagues that it is coming soon, the New Year. They are the first to climb into the closet to check how the last year's tree is doing there.
Decorate the Christmas tree
To be honest, not everyone likes to decorate a Christmas tree in the workplace. Although most people still like to admire it on the eve of the holiday, therefore, preparations for the office New Year usually begin from the moment when the tree, in spite of everything, gets out of the closet and caring employees begin to decorate it. The Christmas tree in the office can be very different from the one that each of us has at home, and the size and choice of toys. It is not necessary, of course, to decorate it. luminous garlands. However, traditions must be respected!
In our difficult economic and political situation time, many companies, in order to save money, transfer the celebration of the upcoming holiday to workplace, so the employees have no choice but to prepare for the celebration without leaving the table and computer. I will not say that this is bad, because here everything depends on the team, its traditions and relations between employees. A real holiday can be arranged in the office - there would be a desire.
Think not only about food, but also about entertainment
In addition to the banal celebration in the form of a laid table with various goodies and champagne in glasses, the New Year's event can be diversified with various contests and games. If the firm is large good idea- Arrange a presentation number from each department: you can, for example, make a musical cut from funny photos, prepare song or dance numbers, show funny sketches.
If the team is small, try to play some funny Games: for these purposes, a game that is sometimes called "Artist" is excellent, when a sheet of drawing paper is taken, employees are divided into teams, and one of which draws something on this sheet, the other must guess what kind of artistic creation is depicted on it.
In addition to such a game, in offices, the “Dress up the Christmas tree” contest is usually held “with a bang”, when instead of the traditional New Year's attribute, one of the employees appears, which is carefully decorated by colleagues. You can also arrange a competition to find out who is the most accurate in your team by throwing paper or other small items into a container specially designated for this purpose.
Throw a fancy party
One of the most interesting ideas for a New Year's corporate party in the office is a stylized party. Just imagine if all the members of your labor collective they will come to the workplace not in suits with ties and boring plain dresses, but in cowboy hats, with pistols, vests and stunning outfits of real Indians. I am sure that there will be no limit to the delight of colleagues, not to mention the fact that you will be charged with positive energy for the entire next working year ahead.
Of course, preparing a New Year's office event is a troublesome business and one person cannot do it, here you need to be united and act together. However, if you come up with something really unusual, interesting, in which everyone without exception can take part, you get a really good and unforgettable party that needs to be planned in advance, schedule all the actions and distribute who will do what for her. In principle, even now nothing is impossible for those who decide to celebrate the New Year at work - there is still enough time, show your creativity to the whole team and go for it!
