It is no secret that today half of our lives are in direct contact with colleagues, whether it is an office in the center of the capital city or an oil and gas field. Because of how the interaction with colleagues will be, the mood for work, and the mood, in general, often depends.
Friendly, positive relationships in the workplace these days are such a rarity that in no case should be lost, because a lot of time is wasted and considerable effort is made to create them. Such simple acts as a sincere congratulation of colleagues, a small gift, even on a minor occasion, are always accepted positively, with joy.
Often, when giving a gift to a male business colleague, the giver faces significant difficulties. After all, with a female colleague, in most cases, everything is pretty clear - a bouquet, some kind of sweets, and something even more or less neutral will do.
In the case of choosing a gift for a man, a lot of difficulties suddenly appear, and it is the original gift that will best emphasize the sense of humor, creativity and creativity.
Selection recommendations
To please 100%, you must at least have a superficial acquaintance with a colleague, be aware of his passions and hobbies, at least a couple of times to spend free time with him in some entertainment. Another point - information is required about what he prefers to drink from alcohol. It is no secret that one of the most popular men's gifts is collection sorts of cognac or other alcoholic drinks, so you should not put it in an uncomfortable position if a colleague does not drink alcohol.
In general, a gift can really please a person if he is very passionate about something. Hobbies are very different - from playing the balalaika and collecting stamps to car racing and diving without scuba gear for a while.
Respectively, a gift made with taste and time, and even taking into account the hobbies of colleagues, can not only please the latter, but also greatly strengthen the relationship between two men.
Very often, for a person who does not have a sophistication of taste or some kind of original thinking, choosing an original gift becomes a difficult task.
In this case, it will be useful to contact dealers or creative agents.
Any catalog of original gifts from well-known manufacturing companies that can be found in any agency is suitable. They are well versed in the specifics of such requests and will certainly be able to offer such original ideas that not everyone can do.
Sure, the possibility of contacting such an agency should be considered only after the stages of interrogation of friends and mutual acquaintances have been completed, and your own thoughts are not enough. Advertising agencies are always intermediaries of a manufacturer-customer pair. As a rule, their services are used by those companies that plan to launch a campaign providing souvenirs for business partners, but they will not refuse to fulfill a private order.
Symbolic gifts
In addition to the fact that a gift can be simply useful or tasty, it can have a symbolic meaning. For example, if a gift is given to a person leaving for a well-deserved rest or for some other reason leaving his workplace, you can choose as a gift something symbolic, some valuable souvenir. Sometimes they make orders, medals, on which they engrave with warm words.
Such memorabilia are stored for a long time and warmly remember those who presented. Another option is cups, figurines, paintings, photo calendars depicting the protagonist of the event. You can make a picture on canvas that will include a mosaic of fragments of photos of all colleagues.
Gifts for men, timed to some holiday date (the most popular, of course, February 23), can also make sense. Nowadays, they usually give some pleasant trifle: a tea or coffee mug, a key chain, a T-shirt that can be beautifully and unusually designed by printing an inscription, drawing or photo on them that matches the theme of the holiday.
A shower or shaving kit, properly presented, hand-made soap will be quite appropriate, all this will benefit as a gift presented by colleagues for a fellow boyfriend.
Original ideas
Creative, funny, humorous, unusual gifts are relevant for almost any reason, but it would be useful to be tactful when they are presented. So, the presentation of the so-called running alarm someone who often comes to work late, can rid him of this habit. Such alarms, when the time comes to get up, literally “run away” from the owner and usually roll into an inaccessible place, where they have to be taken out for a long time. In the process, the ringer volume rises.
Other types of such original alarms are a device suspended above a sleeping person on a rope, which starts ringing while rising to the ceiling, and you have to get out of bed to get it on and off.
They consider the device to be the most original in the shockproof case, which does not turn off until you hit it hard with some hard surface.
Gifts that cause certain emotions in male colleagues may be the best surprise. Again - for this you need to know your colleague’s tastes well. It can be a ticket to the performance of his favorite artist, to a hockey or football match of his favorite team, which will be able to please and inspire him.
Gastronomic Presents
If a colleague is a sweet tooth, then his colleagues know this, as a rule. In this case, you can please him with a personalized chocolate gift set or an ice cream cake, on which his name or a wish for a pleasant appetite is written. If a person loves and appreciates good alcohol, donors have a direct road to a good liquor store.
A good addition to a bottle of good wine is a set of delicately packaged wine glasses (or glasses if brandy is given), a reusable original cork.
Travel enthusiasts may well be gifted one of the travel kits, which consist of a flask and a set of metal glasses with an engraving of his name.
Useful things
The choice of gift for a male colleague is quite wide, but still, the gift should not only be creative, but also bring practical benefits. For example, if a colleague became a happy father, a warm blanket for him, bed linens with original ornaments, unusual educational toys, a designer stroller, a swing will be very suitable for him. All this must be properly packaged, designed and presented. It’s nice to add what the baby will need first of all: a set of dummy pacifiers, rattles and so on.
Exist reaction trainers that can be given to a comrade in a male team, pursuing such goals that for sure such a present will appeal to the whole team.
When a birthday person is a colleague in the office space, you can donate without fear a safe book, a pen of a prestigious brand, an electronic notebook, an original flash drive, a key holder, a massage cover for an office chair, a beautiful cover for an ID / passport, an original banknote clip, wallet (in the latter it is advisable to put some denomination of small denomination).
On such gifts the engraved wish will look quite solid.
Gift in the form of hoursprojecting time indications onto a flat surface is also one of the most popular and original presentations. If a colleague is a passionate motorist, it would be appropriate to car accessorylike a mug that is heated from the USB port or connected for this to the cigarette lighter, a car vacuum cleaner, a stand for a mobile phone, which is convenient to use in the car.
Any motorcyclist will be happy to receive one of motorcycle accessories like a helmet, gloves, glasses for racing. And also a lover of extreme sensations will be very pleased with the certificate, allowing you to make a parachute jump or dive.
If a colleague, an ardent fan of tourism, has some reason for a gift, choosing a gift should also not cause difficulties: a tourist will have a roomy and reliable backpack or travel bag; solar powered mobile phone charger, penknife or multitool, light and warm sleeping bag, tent and the like.
It is not customary to give male colleagues clothing items, but small accessories like a tie or a clip for it, a pair of cufflinks, a belt will always be an appropriate gift.
A smoking colleague will surely be delighted branded lighter, beautiful ashtray, branded pipe and a good supply of tobacco, cigars, a device for cutting off the tip of a cigar. In addition to gifts that a male colleague will be happy with, there are a number of items that are not worth giving, because not everything that one considers worthwhile will be liked by the other, and in a certain situation it will be appropriate.
This article is about male colleagues who are far from always people, close friends or close in spirit, who share life priorities.It may well turn out that the gift will be intended for an employee who only shares the workspace with a colleague and is completely reluctant to open his soul to a neighbor only because both have the same education, or they work in the same specialty. For this reason too bold and controversial gifts can embarrass a colleague, put him in an awkward position.
It is worth remembering (especially if a woman presents a gift) that you don’t need to have the habit of giving perfumes, clothing, equipment, or religious items.
These are very “slippery” categories of gifts, and you need to be one hundred percent sure that the gift will be accepted with pleasure. If the gift is made by a female colleague, surely a careless choice will be regarded as a hint.
Another category of gifts is cash. Such gifts are made on behalf of the whole team (in this case they usually collect a substantial amount), but not on behalf of any one. Male colleagues may misinterpret personal congratulations on such a collective holiday as New Year's Eve, a professional holiday, when celebrated by the whole team.
Another thing is a happy birthday or an anniversary. This holiday is usually expected as one of the most important of the year, and it is always a pleasure for the birthday boy to see that his colleagues have not forgotten about this date, and rejoice at it along with the anniversary. In general, the ability to give presents correctly is not an easy art, but having mastered it perfectly, you can give a lot of positive emotions to a variety of people, without making almost any effort.
A few ideas for original gifts for colleagues - in the next video.
