How are You Monitoring Your Team’s Happiness?
Fun team building activities Prior to starting my company producing team building events in New York City, Southern California & nationwide, I worked in the public relations industry. My life as a media professional began in graduate school, with a 6-month internship within the PR department of Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. It was…
Read MoreHow to Produce the Perfect Cross-Silo Team Building Event
Cross silo team building events I’ve been giving some thought lately to what the most-requested needs for my services are. For almost a decade now, I’ve been producing team building trivia for corporate groups, catering to a range of motivating factors: the desire to boost employee morale, to improve communication and collaboration, to integrate new…
Read MoreHow Far In Advance Should I Plan My Team Building Activity?
Team building activities I get this one a lot. A planner like yourself who is in need of a team bonding exercises for work calls me up, asking about our corporate trivia offerings. We’ll talk through the specific goals for the event, as well as the audience, service packages and so-forth. However, perhaps the most…
Read MoreTeam Building Should Be a Blast – Not a Burden
Southern California Team Building Trivia Whenever people find out that I founded a trivia team building company, invariably one of the first questions I am asked is, “How did you get into this?” It’s a fun story, which you can read more about here – basically, I was working a full-time job in event programming,…
Read MoreEmployee Reward: Are You Giving It Out Fairly?
Employee reward team building activities I’d like to begin this post with a brief story, one which I’ve often told to my friends and family, but have never committed to ink, digital or otherwise. So here it goes. Fifteen years ago, I had just started my first semester of a 2-year master’s degree program in…
Read MoreCase Studies: Using Trivia as a Networking Event Activity
Networking event activities trivia I’ve been focusing my blog writing lately on the various ways TrivWorks utilizes live trivia to engage different types of audiences. Today, I’d like to zero in on a fun one, which I’ve enjoyed producing for quite a number of years now: activities for professional networking events. My experience with structured…
Read MoreRoving Trivia: A Great Informal Event Entertainment Option
Roving trivia corporate events Here’s a topic which has been coming up for me more and more lately. An event planner like you reaches out, seeking corporate event entertainment in NYC, Southern California, or elsewhere. There’s just one catch, however: the event isn’t going to be “structured.” There will be no set time with a…
Read MoreCase Study: How Improved Communication Helps Achieve Team Goals
Improve office communication skills These past few days have been an absolute whirlwind for me. Not everybody loves surprises, but I do – something my wife of six years knows all too well. I had a big milestone birthday last month, and she pulled out all the stops: a surprise party, surprise out of town…
Read MoreThe Right & Wrong Ways to Incorporate a Trivia Contest into Private Parties
Trivia Private Party Events I’ve been hosting and producing team trivia events for private groups for a long time – over ten years, to be exact. When I founded TrivWorks as a side business in 2009, the intention was to service primarily corporate audiences who wanted to say “thank you” to underpaid employees, who were…
Read MoreHow Does TrivWorks Customize Corporate Team Trivia Events?
Customized trivia corporate events As I write this, I’ve just come off of a marathon session of crafting two team trivia events for corporate groups, before I leave for a long-overdue family vacation. I’m tired and weary from a long day, but I’m also perfectly primed to write about something I haven’t touched upon here…
Read MoreHow Refined is Your Corporate Trivia Event Vendor?
Trivia company corporate events Last week, I received a piece of feedback from a new client which I’ve been beaming about all weekend, and even today as I think about it. We recently produced team trivia for a company event in NYC, and I’m proud to say it was a home run – but it…
Read MoreWhy Do You Want a Team Building Event, Anyway?
Team building corporate events Prior to starting my own trivia company for corporate groups in NYC – first as a side gig, and then eventually taking it full-time – I worked at the 92nd Street Y, a cultural & community center in Manhattan. I worked at 92Y for a total of six years, where I…
Read MoreTeam Trivia: A Safe Bet for Group Bonding
Trivia team building When I first moved to Long Beach, California last summer in order to offer team trivia for corporate groups in Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County and the entire West Coast, one of the first things which struck me was the sun. As in, I was constantly sunburned. I’d lived on the…
Read MoreThe Difference a Professional Trivia Emcee Makes
Professional trivia event emcee This post is going to be comprised of two quick stories: the first one happened years ago, the second one just a few months ago. I once found myself in a situation where I had two clients requesting the exact same night for a company trivia party in NYC. It was…
Read MoreSummer Associate Entertainment: Why Team Trivia Works So Well
Summer Associate Entertainment Trivia Night This is the time of year when I find myself making a lot of phone calls to the recruiting departments of prestigious law and financial service firms. The reason is because of summer internships programs, which take shape during the spring. If you’re reading this blog post, then you most…
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