Training – How to Get Your Team Engaged

Does your team look forward to learning about new products or processes?  Do they retain the knowledge you share during meetings and workshops?  Corporate training doesn’t have to evoke groans and sighs from your team.  With creativity, you can add excitement and engagement to training sessions. Staff training is a necessary part of business.  You…

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Critical Thought and Creative Problem Solving

Critical thought is an important part of problem solving in today’s business environment.  Your team must be able to weigh the evidence they collect and observe about business situations and use that evidence to determine the best course of action.  How can you encourage critical thought on your team?  Team building events that challenge the…

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TrivWorks in The Wall Street Journal for Trivia Night Article!

There’s a really great article in The Wall Street Journal today on the booming popularity of trivia events in New York City and across the country, and we are so honored and delighted to have been included! Focusing primarily on the growth of pub quiz nights, the piece also mentions how a select number of…

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Experiential Marketing – A Winning Strategy

Want to add energy to your marketing efforts?  Experiential marketing is one of the best ways to create a buzz of excitement around your brand or your products.  In fact, giving your customers and prospects an awesome experience to associate with your brand can take your marketing results to an entirely new level. Experiential marketing…

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Communication is the Key to Team Collaboration

Technology has made it increasingly convenient for people to work from a distance.  Flexible work situations, virtual teams, remote offices, and telecommuting are all a part of the modern work situation.  Yet, business is about finding creative solutions to complex problems – and this is best accomplished through collaboration.  So, how can you build a…

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The Most Essential Management Tool: A Sense of Humor

Effective management is more than learning how to evaluate an employee, motivate a team, or manage a project to deliver an excellent outcome.  Effective management is maintaining a sense of humor in the face of stress, challenge, and overwork.  It’s about leading by example and showing your team how to stay positive in the face…

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Emotional Overload and Workplace Conflict

Stressful situations and high pressure work environments often create heightened emotions for even the most professional teams.  When your team is suffering from emotional overload, conflict is right around the corner.  There are steps you can take as a leader to reduce stress and emotional overload and minimize workplace conflict. Understand the Pressure:  Are you…

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Announced! New Pat Kiernan Trivia Prize: The New York Post Headlines Tour

Tomorrow is our first big public event of the year at The Bell House in Brooklyn, “90s vs 00s” Pop Culture Trivia Challenge hosted by NY1 morning news anchor Pat Kiernan! We recently announced theme-appropriate prizes, including the Grand Prize: our entire first place team will see The Package Tour: NKOTB with Special Guests 98…

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Communication and Conflict in the Workplace

Conflict is impossible to avoid in the workplace.  Whenever people are together, especially in tense or stressful situations, conflict is inevitable.  As a leader, it’s important you understand the main causes of workplace conflict and ways you can create a supportive atmosphere that equips team members for resolution rather than destruction. Information and Communication Think…

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Don’t Take Work So Seriously. Add Fun To Your Team.

Fun is an important part of stress management.  Changing business conditions demand a lot from your team.  Extended work hours and stressful situations create negativity and gloom in the office.  You can help your team maintain a positive attitude by making fun a part of every work day. Laughter, and even the anticipation of laughter,…

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Laughter Reduces Employee Stress

How can you keep your team functioning and the peak of productivity?  How can you lessen the impact of stress on your employees?  Studies show that laughter produces long lasting positive health benefits and increases productivity long term. Children laugh an average of 400 times per day.  Adults, on the other hand, laugh roughly 15…

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