"On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree!"
Our sixth tip to ensure a successful Christmas party relates to the seating plan!
Christmas parties are all about having fun and talking to people you perhaps don't get the chance to on a day-to-day basis. Therefore, it is essential that you have a well thought out table plan. It can often make or break a dinner! You can ensure success by:
- Allocating a host for each table - make sure this is someone that can get the table going!
- Mixing up departments so that department colleagues don't sit next to each other
- Trying to have a fairly even number of males and females
- Ensuring each table has a mix of staff from the most senior to the junior
- Perhaps asking people to move two places to their left/right after the main course
- Traditional seating plan on an easel. However, if you have a lot of people this can often cause a hold-up when people are called for dinner because everyone tries to crowd around the easel to find their table number.
- Seated-at cards. Instead of the easel, you can produce business card size cards which have the persons name on and their table number. Guests pick these up at a registration desk when they first arrive. There are a couple of advantages to doing it this way:-
- You can see how many people are still left to arrive
- It avoids people crowding round an easel
- Last minute changes can be made a lot easier
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