Once you have the theme, the budget, and the location for your corporate Christmas party planned you can fill in the details much more easily.
It is important to keep the party light and fun. It should not be a stressful time of an employee having to decide which of five forks he should use for the salad course, but of having a great time.
There are several ways to ensure that it happens.
Send out fun invitations. Encourage your employees to join in by announcing the there will be prizes for :
the most holiday spirit
the most green
the most red
the one who looks most like Santa..etc.
This silliness can get them groaning in the office but it helps to break the ice as well.
The food at corporate Christmas parties should be easy to handle, simple, and popular. This is probably not the time to serve lemon pasta with squid ink,caviar, and white truffle oil. Stick with foods that are easy to eat with the fingers and flavors that everyone loves. It is pretty hard to go wrong with cheese, fruit, and crackers for example. Simple and classic but delicious.
Decide whether or not you will have it catered, and if you will have servers there. A large table of cheese, fruit,and crackers is not difficult to put together and the guests serve themselves.
If you are serving alcohol plan on how you will handle those guests that simply drink too much. Perhaps you could have a maximum number of drinks to be served and then move to non-alcoholic punch.
Choose gifts for different phases of the party..door prizes, best dressed, drove the farthest, the prizes for the categories in the invitations…here are some great gifts for Corporate Christmas parties.
Business card cases
Photo frames
Ornaments
Giftbaskets
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