Do Food
Our small team had to prepare weekly status reports. We hated this job and the wasted meeting time it took each week. Someone told me that the next meeting was our team lead’s birthday, so I bought chocolate chip cookies. As we gathered for the meeting I said, “I heard it’s Tim’s birthday today, so I brought cookies!” It was as though we’d been living in a cave and someone had turned on the lights. People smiled and began telling stories from their childhood. The meeting was fun. We joked about the report and the task we all hated. We finished early. All this from a few cookies.
Make an ordinary gathering a special event by including food.
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