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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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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Encourage Employee Work Life Balance

Work balance is increasingly important to your team.  Millennial employees are especially interested in balancing their work obligations and home life.  Attracting and retaining a highly productive and creative team means encouraging employee work life balance. Ultimately your organization is not responsible for the work balance of your employees.  The policies, decisions and expectations you…

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Team Building and Project Management

Project management requires more than organization and drive.  Project managers must inspire a team of people with a variety of skills and build a strong and productive team out of individuals who don’t share a single supervisor. Project management is essentially people management.  Project managers are on the front lines of team building. When you…

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Consistency Brings Results

Athletes train daily.  Why?  They know regular, continuous training gives them the best chance of winning and achieving their goals.  Team building works on the same basic principle.  Effective team building needs to happen regularly and become a part of your company’s culture if it’s going to be successful. Some organizations plan team building events…

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Benefits of Trivia for Your Team

Why is a trivia event so powerful for team building?  What are the benefits of trivia for your team?  Casual work events that include trivia are powerful team building opportunities.  Not only does your team get to know each other, they build problem solving skills and a cohesive team identity within a fun setting.  Consider…

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Build Trust by Spending Time with Your Team

Want to make your team stronger and more creative?  Spend time with them.  Getting to know your employees in a casual setting leads to enhanced employee productivity, loyalty and creativity.  Why?  People work better when they feel included and valued.  People work more creativity when they trust the people they work with. Trust opens the…

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Casual Work Activities Compliment Modern Workplace Strategy

The workplace culture is rapidly changing.  The traditional office environment is becoming more flexible, distributed and collaborative.  Change is continuous and your workplace strategy must adapt.  Job requirements, mobile devices, and enhanced communication blur the lines between work and personal time.  Your employees simply won’t respond to the traditional, formal team based activities. Casual work…

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Create a Unique Year End Holiday Party

Is your year end holiday party becoming a cliché among your employees or friends?  This year you can create a unique event to engage your guests in a new way.  TrivWorks offers unique entertainment your guests will remember well into 2013. Personalized Entertainment TrivWorks guarantees personalized, engaging entertainment designed specifically for you.  We start with…

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7 Advantages of Trivia Events for Team Building

Corporations often struggle to provide employee team building events.  If your organization is like many, you find it challenging to find team building opportunities that make a positive impact on your organization within the confines of your budget. Trivia events are the perfect team building option for your organization.  Simple to plan and easy to…

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5 Companies Trivia Team Building Activities Won’t Work For

Team building trivia events are my passion. I love everything about them, from customizing trivia questions for specific groups to hosting events, to seeing the enjoyment people get out of them and the smiles they beam afterwards. However, as strongly as I feel about this unique form of corporate employee entertainment, I know that live…

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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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Using Twitter for Trivia: A User’s Guide

Since launching our official TrivWorks Twitter feed in 2009, we’ve utilized it for a variety of purposes: marketing upcoming free trivia nights, highlighting news items & achievements of fellow event professionals and live trivia hosts in New York City and beyond, as well as to promote the daily blog you are reading now. However, as…

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