Incorporate a pirate theme into your meeting, so attendees can search for buried treasure.
Business and meetings go together like peanut butter and jelly: You can’t have one without the other. While there never may be a shortage of meetings, your chances of attending ones that are creative and entertaining are rare. However, there are ways to spruce up these forums, such as incorporating themes into the meeting. By mixing business and fun, employees will walk away from meetings with more than just a pile of notes.
Pirate Theme
Pirates search for buried treasure, and businessmen search for ways to increase profits and decrease spending, which, in a way, is similar. Incorporate a pirate theme into your business meetings. To make things fun, pass out pirate hats and eye patches for your attendees to wear. You can even play pirate-themed music while attendees congregate into the room.
Explain to your attendees that during this meeting everyone is a pirate on the hunt for buried treasure. Incorporate the pirate analogy as it relates to your business whenever you can. To go above and beyond, decorate the room with pictures or cutouts of parrots, pirate ships and treasure chests.
The Wild West
Saddle up, partner, because this meeting is about to get wild! According to History Net (an online resource for historical information), the Wild West was a time of new developments, competition, expansion and new discoveries. So if you are holding a meeting about corporate strategies, development ideas and ways to differentiate your company’s goods from competitors’, the Wild West theme may be right for you.
Supply your attendees with whatever Western paraphernalia you can find, such as cowboy hats. You may even want to serve food during your meeting, like creamed corn, miniature burgers or baked beans. Setting the tone for the Wild West can elicit participation from your attendees.
Breaking Down Borders
Going global, according to The New York Times, is about reaching across borders and expanding into new horizons. Breaking down borders is a top-notch theme for a business meeting about taking your company global. Advertise the meeting’s theme well before the meeting date so that employees are prepared with ideas for ways to break down borders.
To add some fun to the meeting, decorate the conference room with pictures from around the world. Try to make the meeting as international as possible to get employees thinking about larger consumer markets. You may even want to bring in international foods for people to snack on during the meeting.
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