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Holiday Survival Guide
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Company Parties
for As Few As Two Just as large corporations are throwing their huge holiday galas, complete with orchestras, lavish meals and elaborate decorations and presentations of special bonuses and gifts, your small or home-based business can have its own end-of-the-year celebration. Indeed, you might choose to scale down the band and the buffet (perhaps, eliminate them from your plan completely) but you and your staff can still enjoy a fine time of acknowledging the season and your past year's accomplishments. With just a little creativity and careful planning you can treat your valued employees or associates, groups of two to ten, to mighty big fun. Small groups can enjoy a celebratory outing by taking the party out on the road with one of the following: Dinner Train Excursion: A quaint and quality meal served in the dining car of a special event train is a wonderful mini get-away and a great way to show your guests that they are "important and appreciated." Suggestion: Bring the still and/or video camera to capture the event for a super trip replay to be enjoyed over coffee a few days later. Progressive Dinner Limousine Ride: Hire a luxurious stretch limousine and map out a tour around the city, with a stop at a different place for each meal course. This "Miles of Smiles" event will be savored and talked about for months. Suggestion: Schedule a stop at a small gift shop where special token gifts have been selected and wrapped to await your guests. Entertainment Plus: Include attending a great new movie, comedy revue, mystery theater, ice show, circus, play or concert in your party plan. Top it off with après performance dessert and coffee at a new-in-town restaurant or bistro. Suggestion: When you buy a table for a local fund raising event you not only provide a gala for your guests, but you also support the cause and give everyone a good "helping" feeling, too. Adventurers Activities: Transport your "party animals" to the bowling alley, game arcade, ice or roller rink, nearby ranch for a hay ride or to the local billiards hall. Follow up this frolicking with down-to-earth diner food like burgers and "dogs". Bonus: Getting your people out of their business suits and into these casual settings will result in new bonds, loads of fun and prove to be a well-received special occasion.
Party in Your
Store, Office or Plant
Wherever two or more are gathered, you can commemorate the holiday season and the new year with your important business staff and associates in a meaningful, memorable and economical way. The effort and expense will be more than balanced by the resultant rise in morale, enthusiasm and the next year's productivity. Too Busy to
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Don't
Wait...Celebrate! Plan a less-stress event by getting help, being fully organized and keeping it as simple as possible. The secret to a successful gathering is more in the way you treat the people and less in the elaborate decor and lavish refreshments. The most vivid memories taken away from an event are those of the details that were planned to show guests just how important they are. Patty Sachs is the
author of the Complete
Idiot's Guide to Throwing a Great Party, Pick
a Party: The Big Book of Party Themes and Occasions, and Don't
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