Original gift ideas for male colleagues
It is no secret that today half of our life is spent in direct contact with colleagues, be it an office in the center of the capital city or an oil and gas field. Because of how the interaction with colleagues will be, the mood for work, and mood, in general, often depends.
Friendly, positive relationships in the work collective these days are such a rarity that in no case should be lost, since it takes a lot of time and considerable effort to create them. Such simple actions as sincere congratulations from colleagues, a small gift, even for an insignificant reason, are always accepted positively, with joy.
Often, when choosing a gift for a male business colleague, the giver faces significant difficulties. Indeed, with a female colleague, in most cases, everything is quite clear - a bouquet, and some kind of sweets, and something else more or less neutral will do.
In the case of choosing a gift for a man, a lot of difficulties suddenly appear, and it is the original gift that will best emphasize the sense of humor, creativity and creativity.
Selection recommendations
To please 100%, you need to be at least superficially familiar with a colleague, be aware of his addictions and hobbies, at least a couple of times to spend free time with him in some kind of entertainment. One more point - information is required on what he prefers to drink from alcohol. It is no secret that one of the most popular men's gifts is collectible brandy or other alcoholic beverages, so you should not put it in an uncomfortable position if your colleague does not drink alcohol.
In general, a person can be very pleased with a gift if he is very passionate about something. Hobbies are very different - from playing the balalaika and collecting stamps to car racing and free scuba diving for a while.
Respectively, a gift made with taste and on time, and even taking into account a colleague's hobby, can not only please the latter, but also greatly strengthen the relationship between the two men.
Very often, for a person who does not have sophistication of taste or some kind of originality of thinking, choosing an original gift becomes a difficult task.
In this case, it will be useful to contact dealers or creative agents.
Any catalog of original gifts from well-known manufacturing companies, which is sure to be found in any agency, will do. They are well versed in the specifics of such requests and will certainly be able to offer such original ideas that not everyone can do.
Of course, the possibility of contacting such an agency should be considered only after the stages of asking friends, mutual acquaintances have been passed, and there are not enough own thoughts. Advertising agencies are always intermediaries for the producer-customer pair. As a rule, their services are used by those companies that are planning to launch a campaign that provides the production of souvenirs for business partners, but they will not refuse to fulfill a private order either.
Symbolic gifts
In addition to the fact that a gift can be just useful or tasty, it can also have a symbolic meaning. For example, if a gift is made to a person leaving for a well-deserved rest or for some other reason leaving his workplace, you can choose something symbolic, some valuable souvenir as a gift. Sometimes orders and medals are made, on which they are engraved with warm words.
Such memorabilia are kept for a long time and the donors are remembered with warmth. Another option is cups, figurines, paintings, photo calendars depicting the main character of the event. You can make a painting on canvas that includes a mosaic of fragments of photos of all colleagues.
Gifts for men timed to coincide with a holiday date (the most popular, of course, February 23rd) may also make sense. Nowadays, they usually give some pleasant trifle: a tea or coffee mug, a keychain, a T-shirt, which can be beautifully and unusually decorated by printing an inscription, drawing or photo on them that correspond to the theme of the holiday.
A shower or shaving set presented properly, hand-made soap will be quite appropriate, all of which will be useful as a gift given by colleagues for a fellow guy.
Original ideas
Creative, funny, humorous, unusual gifts are relevant for almost any occasion, only it would be useful to be tactful when they are presented. So, the presentation of the so-called running alarm clock someone who often comes to work late can get rid of this habit. Such alarm clocks, when it comes time to get up, literally "run away" from the owner and usually roll up in a hard-to-reach place, from where they have to be taken out for a long time. In the process, the ringer volume increases.
Other types of such original alarm clocks are an apparatus suspended over a sleeping person on a string, which starts ringing while rising to the ceiling, and you have to get out of bed to get it and turn it off.
The most original device is considered to be in a shock-resistant case, which does not turn off until you hit it with force against some hard surface.
Gifts that evoke certain emotions in male colleagues can be the best surprise. Again, this requires a good knowledge of your colleague's tastes. It can be a ticket to a performance of his favorite performer, to a hockey or football match of his favorite team, which can please and inspire him.
Gastronomic gifts
If a colleague has a sweet tooth, then his colleagues know this, as a rule. In this case, he can be pleased with a personalized chocolate gift set or an ice cream cake on which his name or a wish of bon appetite is written. If a person loves and appreciates good alcohol, the donors have a direct road to a good liquor store.
A nice addition to a bottle of good wine will be a set of elegantly packaged wine glasses (or glasses, if you are giving cognac), a reusable original cork.
Travel lovers can give one of the travel kits, which consist of a flask and a set of metal glasses with his name engraved.
Useful things
The choice of a gift for a male colleague is quite wide, nevertheless, the gift should not only be creative, but also carry practical benefits. For example, if a colleague has become a happy father, a warm blanket for a baby presented to him, bed linen with original ornaments, unusual educational toys, a designer stroller, and a swing will be very appropriate. All this must be properly packaged, arranged and presented. It's a good idea to add what the baby will need in the first place: a set of pacifiers, rattles, and so on.
Exists simulators training reaction, which can be given to a comrade in a men's team, pursuing such goals that such a present will surely please the whole team.
When the birthday person is a colleague in the open space of the office, you can donate without fear of making a mistake a book-safe, a pen of a prestigious brand, an electronic notebook, an original flash drive, a housekeeper, a massage cover for an office chair, a beautiful cover for an ID / passport, an original clip for banknotes, a wallet (in the latter, it is desirable to put some kind of banknote of small denomination).
An engraved wish will look quite solid on such gifts.
Gift in the form of a watchprojecting time readings on a flat surface is also one of the most popular and original presentations. If a colleague is a passionate car enthusiast, this might be appropriate. car accessory, like a mug that is heated from the USB port or connected to a cigarette lighter for this, a car vacuum cleaner, a mobile phone stand, which is convenient to use in the car.
Any motorcyclist will be happy to receive one of the motorcycle accessories like a helmet, gloves, racing goggles. And also the lover of extreme sensations will be very pleased with the certificate that allows you to make a parachute jump or dive.
If a colleague, an ardent fan of tourism, has some reason for a gift, the selection of a gift should also not cause difficulties: a spacious and reliable backpack or travel bag will be very appropriate for the tourist; solar cell phone charger, penknife or multitool, light and warm sleeping bag, tent and the like.
It is not customary to give items of clothing to male colleagues, but small accessories like a tie or a clip for him, a couple of cufflinks, a belt will always be an appropriate gift.
A smoking colleague will surely be delighted a branded lighter, a beautiful ashtray, a branded pipe and a good supply of tobacco, cigars, a device for cutting off the tip of a cigar. In addition to gifts that a male colleague will be happy with, there are a number of items that are not worth giving, because not everything that one considers worthy of attention will be liked by another, and in a certain situation will be appropriate.
This article is about male colleagues who are not always people, close friends or close in spirit, who share life priorities. It may well turn out that the gift will be intended for an employee who simply shares a workspace with a colleague and is completely unwilling to open his soul to a neighbor only for the reason that both have the same education, or they work in the same specialty. For this reason overly bold and controversial gifts can embarrass a colleague, put him in an awkward position.
It is worth remembering (especially if the gift is presented by a woman) that you do not need to have the habit of giving neither perfume, nor items of clothing, nor equipment, nor things of religious use.
These are very "slippery" categories of gifts, and you need to be one hundred percent sure that the gift will be accepted with pleasure. If the gift is made by a female colleague, a careless choice will certainly be regarded as a hint.
Another category of gifts is cash. Such gifts are made on behalf of the entire team (in this case, they usually collect a substantial amount), but not on behalf of any one person. Male colleagues may also misinterpret personal congratulations on such a collective holiday as the New Year, some kind of professional holiday, when the whole team is celebrated.
Another thing is congratulations on your birthday or on an anniversary. This holiday is usually expected as one of the most important of the year, and the birthday man always enjoys seeing that his colleagues have not forgotten about this date, and they rejoice in it together with the hero of the day. In general, the ability to correctly give gifts is not an easy art, but having mastered it to perfection, you can give a lot of positive emotions to a wide variety of people, without making practically any effort.
Several ideas for original gifts for colleagues are in the next video.