Holding a corporate party on March 8

If men, deciding on their favorite holiday, choose strictly between the New Year and their own birthday, then the fair sex also has a third worthy option - March 8th. This is a big and bright holiday that is never ignored by women themselves and inevitably requires the attention of men. In a team where there are many young ladies, it is customary to time corporate events for this day, but I want the celebration to be really interesting, and not a formality, with which I want to leave as soon as possible. In order for everything to work out in accordance with your desires, you need to correctly approach the organization of the event.

The first rule, which cannot be challenged in any form: if there is at least one woman in the team, March 8 cannot be completely ignored. If there are more of them and they make up a significant part of the team, then the corporate party for this holiday is simply obliged, if only because otherwise extremely unpleasant rumors will go about the bosses and the entire enterprise.

If the team is still predominantly male, and there are literally two or three girls in it, you can not arrange a whole festival with a script, contests and prizes, but limit yourself to congratulations, flowers and gifts. But in all other cases, full-fledged gatherings are still necessary.

If the gender composition of the team is at least approximately equal, then in many cases corporate women are organized by men. This is especially appropriate if there are really more of them: then they can organize a worthy congratulation to colleagues without spending any significant amount.However, there are also predominantly female groups or even those that consist of one hundred percent ladies.

In many cases a corporate event is organized right at the workplace for the sake of saving money, but in fact, this is not always good... There are two general rules that govern when it is appropriate. First, you can celebrate right at work if the employees go there as for a holiday or, at least, everything is clean and tidy in the office, and the atmosphere in the team is relaxed and no one is "chasing" anyone.

They celebrate at work even if the specifics of the workplace are conducive to holding mass events and feasts. For example, for teachers and educators, celebrating March 8 right at work is not a surprise, simply because schools and kindergartens have canteens and a huge number of seats.

However, this is where the convenience of holding an event at the workplace ends, and, probably, few people would guess to celebrate in the shop at the machines or at the desks filled to the brim with important papers. For this reason, in many cases, it is still wiser to take the celebration somewhere outside the office. The most commonplace option is, of course, a restaurant or a cafe, but one must take into account that this will inevitably entail additional costs and will be more expensive than office space.

However, alternative solutions will not cost a penny either: for example, a small team can go to a photo studio with a make-up artist and stylist so that the results of the holiday are extremely pleasant. Large companies, where the bosses themselves make sure that the team is completely satisfied with the conditions, can allocate a whole budget for the holiday, at the expense of which country trips to a rented house or even to the sea are organized. But let's be honest - few people are so lucky with their work.

Whatever one may say, but in our country a holiday is still unthinkable if there is absolutely nothing to eat there. There is nothing strange in this, because food is the main need of any person, and during the evening, especially if it happened right after the working day, someone will definitely get hungry.

This issue is most easily resolved if the celebration is decided to be held in a catering establishment. This is probably not the first time that the restaurant has organized a buffet table, and they should have an exemplary menu for such occasions, which will only have to be approved if the organizers do not have any ideas or special wishes of their own.

However, most of the good establishments allow the clientele to enter their own wishes upon pre-ordering, so that the organizers with imagination can pamper guests with something unusual. In this case, of course, you should not go to a Japanese restaurant for French cuisine, as well as vice versa.

Having decided to celebrate at work, the ladies set themselves a new task: there will no longer be a cook and waiters, so meals will have to be organized independently. Previously, this fact was a serious argument in favor of getting out of the office in a cafe, but in the last decade, delivery services have developed rapidly and have practically solved this problem. In this case, of course, no one will serve as a service, but you can arrange a themed party with pizza or sushi, which is also not bad.

Nevertheless, many ladies, especially the older generation, do not consider it shameful to organize the table with their own hands. On the contrary, they find it weirder to pay for someone to cook you primitive snacks. Without particularly straining, they can set the table in a short time - even if not royal, but quite worthy, capable of making them perceive their own workplace in a completely different way.

The classics of the genre are various canapes with sandwiches, salads, and sometimes hot snacks. Ideally, everything is initially packaged in small tartlets. Thanks to this, there is no queue for common meals, everyone can take what they like. The same logic is used with drinks: they can be poured into glasses at once, without bothering before each toast.

To some, the menu option described above may seem too modest, but it can be significantly expanded without much difficulty. The easiest way to solve the problem is to make numerous cuts, be it meat, sausage or cheese products. Various rolls will turn out to be quite simple to prepare, and you can solve the dessert problem with purchased cakes. The range of sandwiches and canapes can be expanded by using unusual ingredients as filling - from seafood to fruits.

In whatever version International Women's Day is held, in many cases it is desirable to visually separate it from all other holidays, and from March 8, held in other years. The festival will be remembered only if it is somehow original and unforgettable. Even the photos will be especially colorful thanks to this.

That is why a certain unusual dress code is often chosen for a corporate party, which imposes on those present the duties of choosing a suit and creating a suitable hairstyle, but at the same time allows you to show yourself from an unusual side. Of course, the theme of the evening must be selected taking into account the age and interests of the celebrants, otherwise they may not understand or appreciate the idea of ​​the organizers.

Most of the thematic ideas for costumes most often relate to different eras in the same Russian history: in different years, completely different outfits, hairstyles and so on were in fashion, and already this moment can be great to beat. Someone in a mixed team will be interested in even the version of "worker and collective farm woman", although the girls, of course, will be much more delighted with the concept of dandies. An amusing and rather popular solution is the embodiment of the style of the famous Soviet film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" - nothing seems to be complicated, and at the same time very unusual.

But with a strong desire, if the participants of the celebration have sufficient financial resources and a good imagination from the organizer, you can go even further, accelerating the theme of the party to unprecedented limits. For example, the series about the warrior princess Xena is remembered by everyone, and the young ladies may well dress up in emphatically antique outfits, at the same time deviating from the strict aesthetics of the series.

If you think in a completely different direction, you can try to copy any movie from Bollywood: not so much individual tapes, but a phenomenon as a whole. It will be very colorful and unforgettable. An interesting solution, which will definitely arouse stormy approval of the male part of the celebrants, will be a thematic holiday in the style of "Catwoman" or "Moulin Rouge".

Wherein your own imagination can not only not be limited to the named options, but also significantly expand due to personal ideas. Another thing is that the organizer must accurately feel the mood in the women's team and understand that the planned holiday is held for everyone, and not just for those who made it. In large companies, where the team is quite large, it makes sense to bring several ideas for public discussion at once, which in the eyes of the organizers look approximately equal, and to propose anonymous voting.

Even at the stage of selecting the likely scenarios for the evening, you need to think about how accurately you can convey the atmosphere you are striving for. Just a small feast is not at all the thematic corporate party that is being discussed here, so trying to get away with the cuisine of the desired country or a specific period of time will not be a good idea.

All or almost all stages of the holiday should be directly related to the given topic, namely:

• congratulatory part: gifts are presented everywhere in about the same way, but it matters what kind of gift it is and how it is packaged;
• buffet: in the simplest version, we are talking about light snacks and nothing more, but a thematic feast will most likely require the involvement of professional culinary specialists from public catering establishments;
• contests: the obligatory entertainment program, which turns a group dinner into a festive corporate event, should be tailored to the theme that was chosen as the main one for the evening;
• entertainment: one of the most popular solutions here will be ordinary dances, but then they should also be accompanied by the music that corresponds to the chosen country or period of time.

Comic contests allow you to maintain a cheerful mood and strong corporate spirit, therefore they must be present in the program. Do not think that the contests are invented only for children: for adult viewers, they represent a rare opportunity to abstract and have fun, and for the participants - to win some memorable souvenir.

There may be a lot of ideas for contests, as well as various party themes, but we will consider only the most obvious, simple and popular ones.

• Guess where whose thing is. An interesting competition for knowing your own colleagues with whom you have been working day after day for many years. The main participant is briefly taken out of the common room, while the rest of the women present are offered to randomly "throw off" various gizmos from their own handbag.

• Hostess competition. Despite the general emancipation, in our country it is still customary for a man to be a good master, and a woman, accordingly, a diligent mistress. The competition, for obvious reasons, presupposes the presence of at least two participants who will be given the same tasks: for example, peel a couple of potatoes, dress a child (if present at a holiday) to school, get ready for work, sew on a button, and so on. There are two ways to determine the winner: either wait until someone is the first to fully cope with the task, or give everyone a limited amount of time, and then evaluate the results of each contestant.

• Dance competition. Of course, for participating in it, the ability to dance will be very useful, but we must not forget that all the contests at our celebration are comic. In view of this, dance and music are selected in original combinations: for example, a waltz will have to be danced to a lezginka. Participants must come up with an interesting way to get out of the situation with dignity (although they are not warned in advance about the discrepancy), and the winner is usually chosen by a spectator vote.

• Guess the fruit. The name seems to be nothing complicated, but there is, of course, a small catch. The eyes of the contestants are tied and it is impossible to taste the fruits - they have to be determined only by the smell. In addition, the organizers give the girls a "pig" in the form of products that are actually not fruits, like chopped fresh potatoes and cucumbers, but young ladies usually do not expect this and sincerely try to come up with a non-existent fruit.

• Guess who it’s about. To organize this competition, the boss will have to work hard: he must draw up characteristics for all the ladies, but at the same time so that, of course, they do not offend. For the speed and complexity of the game, a professional portrait of a person is usually not painted in detail, limited to one or two phrases.

The presence of a full-fledged script usually means that they have thoroughly prepared for the corporate event, and, unfortunately, most organizers completely ignore this moment. In a small team of several people, he may not really be needed, but in all other cases it will not hurt. It would be more practical and interesting to hire a professional presenter, but thanks to the Internet, you can do without him.

If there is no main presenter, the chief or the most artistic of the employees is usually hired for his role. It is she who makes the opening congratulatory speech and smoothly leads the program from competition to competition. You need to prepare for acting as a presenter: compose a small script yourself, come up with gifts for participating in competitions and, of course, fully match in terms of costume.

If the team consists of women who are not alien to artistry, then you can build the entire program on funny scenes and miniatures. Then even the theme and costumes will not be needed. To do this, each of the participants randomly pulls out of the bag the attributes of various recognizable fairy-tale characters: takes Little Red Riding Hood, Vasilisa the Beautiful's kokoshnik, Cinderella's shoe, Rapunzel's false braid, the Snow Queen's tiara, Malvina's blue wig, Snow White's white scarf, and so on.

The resulting attribute, of course, must be put on immediately. This will complement everyday clothes and create a light carnival mood. Having built a fabulous scenario with the participation of male characters who, unlike the beautiful half of humanity, have assigned their roles in advance, you can organize an exciting role-playing game, if only the plot looks logical and funny.

Whatever the further scenario, the task of the young ladies is to behave in accordance with the character whose attributes they got by distribution. The organizer, who is also the host, can specially think over the competition program in advance so that each of the planned fairy-tale characters is involved an equal number of times. Then participation in competitions will no longer be voluntary, so it is necessary to think over the conditions so that no one starts to argue or deny.

You can also come up with small scenes in which everyone present will be involved, but at the same time do not assign roles in advance and do not distribute the text to anyone. This is especially true in a situation where the team is large, and the plots of the scenes involve no more than two or three participants. Having typed the commands in any convenient way, including voluntarily, you can invite them to pull the name of the script from the bag or hat, after which the full version of the script (preferably a short one) is given to the team along with a few minutes that are needed for the young ladies to discuss how they will show the scene.

It turns out to be a kind of competition among creative teams, but at the same time it is impossible to do so that all participants are divided into two teams, otherwise sports interest will be lost. The winners are chosen by viewers who were not actors at all, or by members of two or more teams competing with those who are being evaluated.

See the next video for competition options for March 8.