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How to Idiot-Proof Your Office Holiday Party
My wife and I are expecting our first child this winter, and in preparation we are taking one of those “Welcome to Childbirth & Parenthood” classes. The most recent session took a merciful detour from placentas and swollen ankles to cover how to care for an infant, where among other things we learned the rudiments…
Read MoreShould Corporate Team Building Activities be Mandatory?
Here’s one I haven’t quite got worked out yet. The whole point of a corporate team building activity is to get a work group to function better: to improve communication, boost morale & trust, and practice positive teamwork skills which may be put to use back in the office. But if this is imposed on…
Read More6 Keys to Selecting the Perfect Corporate Event Entertainment Venue
Last week, I devoted a significant amount of time exploring new venues for my company’s corporate entertainment events in NYC, where we are located. Although we’ve got wonderful relationships with some really fantastic venues, Manhattan in particular has a lot of diverse neighborhoods, as well as a variety of venue options catering to a wide…
Read MoreGender and Corporate Team Building Activities: Does It Matter?
It’s one of the very first questions I ask during initial consultation with companies planning corporate team building activities: what’s the male-female breakdown? I don’t request this information out of curiosity, or to help the venue with the drink selection. For our trivia team building events, it’s vitally important to make the teams as balanced…
Read More5 Easy Ways to Spice up a Pub Quiz Night
I’m taking a break today from my usual posts on corporate event entertainment, employee team building, and brand engagement to pay homage to my roots as a New York City pub quiz host. I was fortunate enough to see my first bar trivia gig at The Gael Pub, a large Irish bar on Manhattan’s Upper East Side,…
Read MoreEvent Recap: The Economist Pub Quiz Trivia Night at Brooklyn Winery
This past Monday, the TrivWorks team had the honor of working once again with The Economist, one of the world’s most prestigious news publications, to produce a unique trivia brand engagement event for their readers. With the beautiful Brooklyn Winery as our host, we welcomed a huge crowd of both loyal Economist enthusiasts and potential…
Read MoreWe’ll Be Right Back After This Short Break…
I’ll be taking a brief hiatus from blogging today, in order to recover from last night’s massively successful Economist pub quiz at Brooklyn Winery. Don’t worry, a detailed re-cap will be forthcoming…! In the meantime, thank you to everyone who was in attendance, packing the venue and providing a fun, exhilarating event for all! If…
Read MoreWhat the World’s Worst Customer Service Looks Like
Like most entrepreneurs, I’m always tinkering and toying with new ideas, fresh approaches and creative ways to improve how we do things. In my ongoing quest to create the best possible live trivia team building and corporate event entertainment experience, I recently had an encounter which made me think twice about the fate of humanity.…
Read MoreThe 3 Skills a New York City Trivia Host Must Have
The Big Apple is a trivia loving town, and for us NYC trivia hosts this presents a great opportunity, but also a tremendous challenge. With expectations so high from the most enlightened, informed and famously impatient people on Earth, it’s vital that we quizmasters have our acts together. Live trivia events are supposed to be…
Read More100 Questions Managers Can Ask to Get to Know Staff Better
For professional trivia hosts, thinking up questions to ask others comes naturally – providers of corporate entertainment in New York City specializing in trivia are in the question writing business, after all. But for managers and business owners like you with budgets to meet, sales targets to hit and strategic objectives to fulfill, taking the…
Read MoreYou Can’t Improve Workplace Morale by Force
In preparation for a pub quiz event in Brooklyn with The Economist magazine next week, I came across an interesting article in the current issue. Without giving too much away, one of the 50 states in the union has imposed a mandatory scripted “telephone salutation” which all state employees are now required to cheerfully recite…
Read More6 Things You Need to Offer to Retain Top Talent
Retaining your company’s best talent is challenging during strong economic times, but it’s no walk in the park in a tough economy, either. Skills are skills, and regardless of how much your best people love working for you, if they see a better offer somewhere else, well… That’s why it’s so crucially important to stay…
Read More4 Vital Discoveries You Haven’t Made Yet About Your Employees
It’s Columbus Day, the perfect time to think about discovery – however, I don’t mean of New Worlds, I mean of your existing staff! Everyone is working harder these days, and employees of all stripes are doing their absolute best to achieve ever loftier goals, with less time and fewer resources available to them. Under…
Read MoreShould the Boss Attend a Corporate Team Building Event?
So you’ve decided to plan a corporate team building exercise for your employees. Whether you are seeking to improve workplace morale, reward your hard-working staff or just have a fun event to blow off steam, there’s still that nagging question you haven’t quite got worked out yet: should the boss attend? On one hand, this…
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