Trivia Themes Which Nobody Likes: A List of Failed Trivia Rounds

Following up on yesterday’s post highlighting 5 trivia themes proven to bring smiles to people’s faces, I thought today we would explore the flipside: live trivia party themes which are surefire flops. As discussed yesterday, I’ve been writing & hosting live trivia events for 5 years, and in that time have experimented an awful lot…

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5 Fun Themes for Live Trivia Parties, and Why They Work

Perhaps one of the first things I’m asked when holding an initial conversation with clients is, “what kind of trivia do you guys do?” The answer brings both good news and bad: the good news is, you can have a trivia event about any topic you like! The bad news, of course: where on earth…

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Why So Complicated? Less is More with Employee Entertainment Activities

I’ve worked with many companies and corporate groups over the years, with the goal of developing customized employee entertainment in NYC and the surrounding areas. I don’t have to tell you how hard New Yorkers are working every day – especially since the economy tanked in 2009, and many people are doing twice as much…

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Customizing Corporate Team Building Activities: Silly or Significant?

I was recently on the phone with a prospective client, who was interested in building a team building trivia party for her office. While explaining my company’s range of services, she asked an astute question: what is the value of customizing a team building event? I’m glad she asked that, because I feel passionate about…

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Matching Company Culture with Summer Associate & Intern Entertainment

Each summer, New York City and other large metropolitan areas are flooded with summer associates & interns – undergrad & graduate students from across the country and world, who arrive for highly competitive (and often lucrative) temporary positions at leading financial, legal and other professional institutions. This summer staff typically works hard and plays hard,…

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Trivia Questions Which Will Get You Fired

One of the most useful books I’ve read in recent years is Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better by David Shipley & Will Schwalbe, which I referenced in a previous post on recommended reading. Within these pages, the authors have devoted an entire chapter to cautionary tales of Email…

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Why Creating Experience is Rewarding

I love creating experiences. If you had to ask me what’s the one thing that I enjoy most, the one thing that gets my juices flowing, it’s putting all of my energy & creativity into conceptualizing and producing experiences which people will enjoy. It was this desire to make people happy through experience that I…

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Selecting the Perfect Trivia Team Building Venue

So you’ve decided to have a trivia team building event for your employees. Where should it be held? The venue of the activity is a crucial component to the overall event’s success, and should be considered carefully. Depending on your industry, company culture, geographic location and of course unique team makeup, there are a variety…

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Trivia vs. Scavenger Hunts as a Team Building Activity

Prior to starting TrivWorks, I had the unique pleasure of working for two years as a freelancer for one of New York City’s most reputable – and busy – scavenger hunt companies (yes, there really is such a thing). Companies would hire out the scavenger company to create/host team building, client entertainment, branding and experiential…

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A Note of Caution for Corporate Event Entertainers

NYC Corporate Event Entertainers: Caution If you work in the event entertainment field, you do so because you are passionate about creating experiences which people will enjoy, and talk about for a long time. For those of us who work in corporate event entertainment, including team building facilitators, speakers, musicians, magicians- and yes, trivia hosts…

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10 Quick Tips for Customizing a Corporate Entertainment Event

The best way to ensure that a corporate entertainment event has a lasting favorable impact – be it for team building, brand awareness, client entertainment or experiential marketing – is to customize it specifically for the audience in attendance. It’s like anything else: the more tailored and personalized touches you can add, the more impactful…

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