Posts by David
No-Brainer Workplace Morale Booster: Marking Employment Anniversaries
This weekend is my 1-year wedding anniversary – wow, has it really been a year already? As such, I thought I’d close out the work week with a related topic, which I don’t believe receives sufficient attention in the area of workplace morale: the importance of recognizing staff employment anniversaries. It is, after all, the…
Read MoreHow Does a Corporate Team Building Company Create a Public Trivia Night About NYC?
Next week, we will be holding our 2nd SOLD OUT “Why We Love NYC” trivia night at The Bell House with host Pat Kiernan, which we added after our original event in January sold out as well. Ever since joining TrivWorks last year as a “Special Host,” Pat and I have been looking into potential…
Read MoreA President’s Day Note of Compassion for Company Presidents
It’s President’s Day, and many offices are closed in honor of the holiday where we mark the unique sacrifices, challenges and successes of the 44 men who have helped guide our country to where it is today. Chances are good, however, that if you are the president of a company, then unlike your employees, you…
Read MoreTeambuilding with Experiential Marketing in NYC
For over thirty years researchers have studied the relationship between teamwork and employee satisfaction with productivity. While theories have suggested that happy workers produce more, these studies provide quantitative proof that a company is more profitable if the employees feel they are a valued part of a team. TrivWorks™, a firm which provides entertainment and…
Read MoreCan You Benefit from Experiential Marketing?
Large newspaper spreads and flashy TV commercials during a Super Bowl half-time are marketing venues available to only a few companies with large advertising budgets. In spite of this businesses and entrepreneurs still manage to market their products and build brand recognition through innovative means. If you are seeking a creative way to interact with…
Read MoreInnovative Firm Offers Experiential Marketing in New York
PRESS RELEASE February 18, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, New York – The Big Apple has always been known for creativity and innovation and TrivWorks™, a marketing and entertainment firm founded in 2009, is one more example of this celebrated ingenuity. As a result of the economic downturn many businesses were forced to…
Read MoreWork-Life Balance: A Priority That’s Worth the Effort
2011 was an absolutely incredible year for me – I got married, had a baby, and went off to work for myself, among other wonderful milestones both professional and personal. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted, and it’s just incredible. It’s also really, really hard. I don’t mean the responsibilities of marriage or fatherhood, nor the…
Read MoreWhat Kinds of Questions are Asked at a Trivia Team Building Event?
Whenever someone inquires as to what I do, invariably the same questions come up (that is, after they give a sort of blank look, followed by a variation of: “…Seriously?” Yes – I really do ask trivia questions for a living!) The most common things people want to know about using trivia as a team…
Read More“Why We Love NYC” Partner Spotlight: Wafels & Dinges
We are less than 2 weeks away from our just-added “Why We Love NYC” trivia night at the Bell House hosted by Pat Kiernan on February 27th, which we announced after our January 25th event quickly sold out (only a handful of tickets left for the February event as well, by the way – purchase…
Read More50 Causes of Decreased Workplace Productivity
This past December, following two years of careful building and preparation, I finally took the plunge and resigned from my full-time job to pursue my own business full-time. Readers of this blog also know that this past December, my wife and I had our first baby. Needless to say, life has been one of significant…
Read MoreTRIVIA CONTEST: Be 1st to Answer Correctly, and Win 2 Tickets to See Wynton Marsalis!
Last Friday, we announced that we would be holding a special trivia contest today with Jazz at Lincoln Center, one of our esteemed prize partners for our upcoming NYC-themed trivia night at The Bell House on February 27th, hosted by TrivWorks “Special Host” Pat Kiernan, as a means of getting attendees fired up for the…
Read MoreTRIVIA CONTEST – Win Tickets to See Wynton Marsalis Perform at Jazz at Lincoln Center!
We are about 2 weeks away from our 2nd “Why We Love NYC” trivia night at The Bell House hosted by TrivWorks “Special Host” Pat Kiernan on February 27th, which we added after our January 25th event sold out. This unique event, designed to test attendees’ pop culture knowledge of all things NYC, features “quintessential”…
Read MoreNobody Likes Boring Fund Raisers
When is the last time you either planned, produced or attended a fund raiser event for your organization, or a cause you are passionate about? Was the event fun? If it even remotely resembled a lot of fund raisers supporting nonprofit organizations, charities or other causes, my guess is that it wasn’t exactly a thrilling…
Read MoreWhat Would Happen if Your Entire Staff Quit Tomorrow?
I was reading a fun article in the New York Times yesterday about the training US Navy pilots undergo to bail out of doomed aircraft – which, of course, led me to think about how this related to corporate team building in NYC and elsewhere (alas, what doesn’t? Behold, the entrepreneur’s curse). For a long…
Read MoreNote to Managers: Employees Talk About Everything
Being my own boss has been a goal of mine for as long as I can remember. In December 2011, after over two years of careful planning and building, the time finally became right for me to leave my longtime job overseeing the adult education division at the 92nd Street Y in New York City,…
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