
The corporate Christmas party
The first and obvious choice, as we head towards the holidays, is to boost morale by planning a Christmas party. If you are struggling to find the time to organise a Christmas party for your employees, or if you want to pull out all the stops, why not consider researching corporate hospitality packages. Using a hospitality package in this way can relieve you of any stress at this time of year. All you have to do is book it and show up. The possibilities, for corporate events at Christmas, are endless. You could include your staff to collate ideas on what they might like to do.Secret Santa
Secret Santa is an ideal, and inexpensive, way to include everyone in the Christmas tradition of giving and receiving gifts. This guessing game is ideal for creating a buzz in the workplace, because your staff become obsessed with trying to discover who their Santa is. For those that have never heard of it, Secret Santa, is an ongoing guessing game involving Christmas presents. A low budget is usually set, and the names of those that are involved get put into a hat. Everyone then draws a name from the hat and must purchase a gift for that person. The gift must not cost any more than the budget that is given, while the giver of the gift usually remains a secret right up until the gift has been received – hence the reason for the name “Secret Santa”. This idea includes everyone in gift giving whilst also easing any pressure employees may feel to buy all of their colleagues a gift. [rb_inline_related]Office decorations
Discuss annual leave in advance
Most business professionals like to plan well in advance, as do employees. Discussing annual leave well before the end of the year is possibly the one of the best ways to ensure that your team are looking forward to the festivities of the Christmas season. There’s nothing worse than a last minute panic because you haven’t had time to look over holiday requests, leaving disgruntled employees unable to secure their plans. No one wants to be in the kind of situation where they are having to buy whatever is left on the shelf on Christmas Eve, due to not being able plan ahead. If your staff know when they are expected at work and when the office is closed over the Christmas and New Year period, they can book any additional days off that they may require accordingly around these dates. As a result, this will leave the festive period relatively stress-free in the workplace. Lucy Abrahams is operations director at VIP Event Butler Image: ShutterstockShare this story