Despite its immense popularity as a religious holiday, Easter has not made it onto the corporate list. The question of its celebration is left to individual preferences. Perhaps it's time to change stereotypes and include one of spring's main events among traditional company holidays?
Russians count Easter among the three most popular and beloved annual holidays, along with New Year and birthdays. Traditionally, Easter is celebrated in the family circle, and festive events take place in an atmosphere of kindness, love for one's neighbor and warmth.Despite its enormous popularity, being a church holiday, Easter has not entered the corporate list. Everyone decides the question of celebrating it from the point of view of personal preferences. Maybe it is time to change stereotypes and add one of the main events of spring to the company's traditional holidays?
Festively decorate the office, observe the customs of charity, and arrange a buffet. On the eve of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, the event agency Aventura, along with congratulations, offers you advice on introducing Easter customs into office life in order to lift the mood of the whole team.
What is needed to create a festive atmosphere in the work team?
Creating Easter traditions in the office
With a tolerant, tactful attitude and respect for the feelings of believers, it is possible to celebrate corporate Easter in any team, even with representatives of different confessions or religions. Usually they are not against the rituals and support the festive mood of colleagues. To begin with, you can decorate the office.
1. The first condition is not to get carried away with church attributes, but to stick to neutral symbols that create a spring mood: flowers, pussy willow branches, compositions of oat sprouts with painted eggs. The female half of the team can take care of this.
2. Traditional decorations include embroidered rushnyks, an Easter wreath on the front door, compositions of eggs, baskets with Easter cakes and dyed eggs.
3. From Western culture, you can borrow figurines of bunnies, lambs or chicks. They will work both as a gift for each employee and as a wonderful attribute of the desktop. Cute images will be a joy to the eyes and a decoration of the entire room.
Taking part in charity events
Since ancient times, the custom has survived during Easter holidays to show kindness and generosity toward the poor, wandering and disadvantaged. Nowadays, various companies continue the old traditions by organizing charity auctions and campaigns in favor of vulnerable groups of the population.
You can support the good tradition of charity. Good deeds always have a beneficial effect not only on those in need of help, but also on the employees who participate in charity events. Such events also raise the level of social responsibility of the company. All that remains is to choose a direction, for example, you can provide assistance to orphanages or nursing homes, as well as associations of people with disabilities or shelters for the homeless.
Organizing Easter entertainment
Some Easter games will fit perfectly into a corporate holiday. If you are planning a festive lunch on the eve of Easter, Easter entertainment will only complement it and add fun.
- Hit it, don't be afraid. One of the oldest pastimes in Rus: rivals tap the sharp ends of eggs against each other. Whoever's egg doesn't break wins and gets the opponent's egg.
- Fun rolling. Set up a slide, place small prizes at the base. Whichever one the rolled egg touches, its owner wins it.
Together with colleagues, you can choose games to create a festive mood and unite the team. Over time, they will become part of office traditions as an element of team building.
Organizing a festive lunch in the office
It can be organized on a working day before Easter, and companies whose specifics provide for work on Sunday itself will celebrate the bright holiday with their employees. And it will be more than appropriate to have the care of the manager who organized the Easter meal.
At the end of Great Lent, it is customary to set rich tables. Traditionally, Easter cakes and eggs are accompanied by salads, meat dishes, fruits, and juices. Among wines, Cahors is quite appropriate.
Corporate Easter will be an excellent event if, in caring for the team, you go all the way – without burdening subordinates with cooking and, for example, ordering lunch with delivery from catering companies or turning to professionals for organization. You can order Easter cakes and other rich Easter pastries from bakeries and confectioneries. Egg companies will supply the necessary number of eggs, with painted designs already done if desired. And poultry farms and private poultry sellers will provide chicken meat, which is among the most popular dishes of the Easter holiday table.
Aventura event agency recommends approaching the organization of "Corporate Easter" with special care, because it is a great occasion to create a festive mood, introduce new corporate traditions and bring the team together. By the way, if the company has a large number of employees or there is no time for independent preparation, you can entrust the organization of the Easter event to our specialists. Get in touch, and we will help with purchasing all the products necessary for a traditional lunch, decorate the office, prepare branded products and organize a themed program.
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