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30. When your boss says “team outings =
not important,” science is your friend
Work friendships are tied to engagement.
Highly engaged employees are:
• 2.5x more likely to stay at work late
(when needed)
• 2x as likely to help someone, even if
they don’t ask
• 3x as likely to do something good for the
company that is not expected of them
• 5x as likely to recommend that a friend
or relative apply to join the company (Temkin
Group)
31. If you want people to show up…
Free food is your friend
PS: if you’re on a budget, little (but thoughtful!) stuff like
Oreos & Milk can bring a crowd too
32. But MOST importantly of all,
ROUTINE is your friend
• Perhaps choose to do something the
last Thursday of each month?
• Important: send out calendar
placeholders way in advance
(gives ppl something to look forward to)
• Make it a “thing”
33. If it’s special…
Paperless Post is your friend
• Their invites are very, very nice
looking
• AND it feels a bit more social + like
you care (which you do!)
34. If you need private space…
Platforms are your friends
• Don’t call 15 places #nightmare
• I use bashed.co for team dinners,
lunches, and happy hours in
private restaurant spaces.
Breather + Peerspace are great
too
• If you have a PR firm // PR friends,
35. If you need ideas…
Happybot’s go-to playlist is your friend
• Cheese Tasting
• Escape the Room
• Museum Tour
• Drink & Draw
• Chocolate Tasting
• Brewery Tour
• Rock Climbing
• Laser Tag
• Wine Tasting
• Sushi Making
• Pizza Tour
• Karaoke
• Go-Karting
• Shuffleboard
• Scavenger Hunt
• Baseball Game
• Meditation Class
• Improv Class
• Ski Trip (on a bus)
• Rent an AirBnB
• Trivia Night
(I made them gold, because they’re literally all gold)
36. If you need spontaneous ideas…
Events are your friend
• Sign up for The Skint
• Get Timeout NY
delivered to your desk
• When you see
something exciting,
decide to invite peeps!
37. If you’re indecisive (or have decision-
fatigue), annual surveys are your
friend
• Once/year (maybe every 6
mos?)
• Make it checkboxes
• Keep it simple, don’t go nuts
38. If everyone is “always so busy”…
Friday afternoons are your friend
• How much work really
gets done from 2pm-
5pm on a Friday
anyway?
• You can give up one
every month
39. If you want people to meet each other,
Easy openers + gamification = friend
• Two truths + a lie?
• Best childhood memory?
• If you could be a
professor of any fake
subject, what would it be?
Survey people beforehand, write the
answers on index cards; the game is if you
find your match, you get something.
40. If you ever need more help…
I’m your friend?
(happybot can be too*)
aaron@happybot.ai
*although if you try hard and believe in yourself, everyone can be their own happybot
41. Arnaud Collery
Stand Up for Passion
Chief Happiness Officer, Emotional DJ, Storyteller
www.arnaudcollery.com
Editor's Notes
If you want people to from different teams/departments to talk to one another at a happy hour, giving people easy-openers + gamifying it is your friend
-Two truths and a lie
-What’s your best childhood memory in a sentence?
-If you could be a professor of any fake subject, what would it be?
-Who would you make out with from Hogwarts?
If everyone’s “busy”…Friday afternoons are your friends (think about it – how much work is getting done between 2pm-5pm on a Friday anyway)
