Christmas PartyEnd of Year Learning Event
This is not a Christmas party. A training session with extra food and drinks.
A session with The Experience Lab, followed by food and drinks. Your team still gets a day together, bonds, and learns, and you can justify it to HR.
Celebration
A day away from the grind.
Recognition
A session for your team that recognises their contribution through the year.
Compliance
A training session helps mitigate risk and is a timely reminder of the standards and expectations. The positive duty to prevent sexual harassment applies to the end-of-year function as much as it applies throughout the year.
Learning
The session is real. People leave with something they can use at the Christmas Party Event and into 2027.
- Brief the team before your event. Say what's expected out loud, and don't leave it unsaid and assumed.
- Have someone sober and visibly in charge.
- Set a finish time and keep to it. The incidents we hear about rarely happen at the start.
- Run a bar tab with a limit, not an open bar.
- Remind managers before it starts that they are still managers at the party.
- Tell everyone how to raise something on the night, and who to go to.
- Check in on Monday. Ask the question before someone has to come to you with it.
Our sessions sit anywhere on the spectrum of fun to compliance.
Length: a lunch and learn, a micro-session, or a half day.
