Does it Matter if Your Employees Never Interact with Each Other?

NYC Group Bonding Ideas My path to becoming a corporate events professional specializing in trivia team building activities in New York City was anything but straight. People who know me well know this, and I’ve written about it many times here on my blog over the years. I never had any focus or direction growing…

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Corporate Party Entertainment: How Much is Too Much?

Corporate trivia party Los Angeles I attended a bar mitzvah recently. I hadn’t been to one in years – in fact, I can probably count on one hand the number I’ve attended over the past two decades. So I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I got there. It was absolutely amazing. I mean,…

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A Guide to Serving Food & Beverage at Corporate Entertainment Events

Corporate event entertainment food beverage This one’s been coming up a lot lately, and especially now that we’re about to enter office holiday party season, I suspect it will continue to be raised. The issue: what do we do about serving food and beverages at corporate events? At first glance, it may seem like a…

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Office Group Bonding Tip: Converting Frustration into Collaboration

Team Building activities collaboration I’ve written a lot here on my blog over the years on the topic of frustration. It’s not going to come as a surprise for me to tell you that the workplace can be a pressure cooker of disagreements, resentments, poor communication, and ineffective teamwork. If you’re reading this, you may…

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The 3 Biggest Things to Remember When Planning Your Company Holiday Party

Corporate holiday party planning Congratulations! You’ve volunteered (or perhaps been unceremoniously assigned) the task of planning an office holiday party for your group, department, or the entire company. It’s a big job, as you undoubtedly know. Maybe you’ve done it before, or quite possibly this is your first time doing it. Either way, I commend…

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The 2016 Election: A Note on Bringing People Together

Team building event ideas Let me begin by stating this isn’t intended to be a political message, difficult as that is to do on a day like today. I’m more than happy to share my personal beliefs in private, or on my personal Facebook wall – however, here on my work blog I must emphasize…

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15 Ways to Ensure Your Company Holiday Party Doesn’t Suck

Holiday party planning tips It’s November, which means it’s time once again to get the annual office holiday party set up. Actually, as a corporate party entertainer in Long Beach California, I’ve been getting calls already for the past few weeks from folks who are putting their events together. It’s a busy time for you,…

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Trivia Questions For: Pat Kiernan, NY1 Anchor & Veteran Game Show Host

NYC trivia host Pat Kiernan It’s time once again for an edition of my “Trivia Questions For…” series, where I get to interview notable experts, thought leaders, performers and personalities across the entire spectrum of TrivWorks-related fields: corporate event entertainment, employee team building, workplace issues, brand engagement, training, trivia/gaming, humor and more. I’ve been directing…

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7 Ways to Keep Your Corporate Event Vendor Expenses Down

Team building activities Manhattan It’s that time of year again, when people are seeking ideas for company holiday party entertainment in NYC and elsewhere. It’s also prime time for year-end training and group bonding activities, either to mark the end of a successful quarter, or to properly kick off the next one. No matter the…

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Trivia Team Building Events: What Can Your Group Expect?

Team building ideas Long Beach California Last week, I had the honor of producing and hosting a company trivia party in Los Angeles. It was for a terrific group, a tech company called GumGum headquartered in Santa Monica. I took an Uber up from our office in Long Beach, got there in about a half…

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Trivia Questions For: Christian Finnegan, Comedian/Trivia Lover

Corporate Party Entertainment Ideas NYC This post is part of my “Trivia Questions For…” interview series, where I have the pleasure of asking thought leaders, event professionals, team building experts, New York corporate entertainers and more questions which are on peoples’ minds. It’s been a little while since I’ve visited this series, and I’m kicking…

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Trivia Questions For: Ryan Oakes, Award-Winning Illusionist/Mentalist

Corporate event entertainment NYC Ryan Oakes It’s been quite a while since I last published an interview for my “Trivia Questions For…” series, where I get to sit down with leading events industry experts, team building professionals, trivia lovers and corporate event entertainers in New York City and beyond. I’ll be re-igniting this series in…

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6 Things to Avoid When Planning Team Building Activities for Millennials

Millennial team building activities I’ve avoided writing posts like this in the past, and for several good reasons. I am neither a social psychologist, nor a market researcher; I have conducted no randomized double-blind studies, collected no empirical evidence, analyzed no meta data. But perhaps the most glaring reason I’ve refrained from these sorts of…

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