Work collectives are different: friendly, comfortable or. on the contrary, inhospitable and conflicting. In any case, during the New Year holidays, all troubles and roughness in communication recede. On these magical days, I would like to delight others, even with something insignificant. The difficulty is that the people in the team are different, so it seems that it is impossible to make them all happy. However, it is not. Consider a few creative and inexpensive options for colleagues.
Universal options
Of course, you can not be original and buy everything for the New Year purely symbolic souvenirs. They can be small postcards or figurines depicting the symbol of the coming year. Think about it, most likely you will find yourself not the only one, so colleagues' tables will be littered with such gifts, which will not raise their mood. Better approach the task more creatively.
You can divide colleagues by gender or choose universal surprises that will please both women and men.
Woman
The range of women's souvenirs is quite wide and diverse. For example, some young women’s “little things” like a knitted cover on a hot mug will suit young employees.
Surprises that can be given to women for the New Year are selected from the following categories.
- Kitchen and household utensils. These include baking tins, which can be made of silicone and have an interesting contour. Among the standard options choose glass molds or with non-stick coating.
- Tea and coffee couples Useful not only in the kitchen, but also in various coffee points, which are now common in large companies. Unusual cutting boards, beautiful and bright kitchen scales or thermometers will please good housewives.
- Gifts for decorating the kitchen interior are also sets of towels or potholders, coupled with an apron. As a rule, they are decorated with New Year's pattern. In the same category can be attributed souvenir candles. Unique handicrafts are welcomed more, because the products do not repeat. In the New Year's interior, candles will look cozy.
- For body and soul. Cute sets with feminine personal care products are always relevant. They include soap from home craftsmen, salt or foam for taking a bath, an aroma lamp with amazing smells, pocket mirrors of an interesting shape, coasters and caskets for storing jewelry. On New Year's winter evenings, fluffy soft socks with New Year's theme will come in handy.
- Working little things. The work of many women is connected with the computer, so rugs and mice with an interesting design will be a pleasant gift. Also, any employee will be surprised by a small pot with a lush home plant. An interesting photo frame or a mug stand will decorate the workplace. Unlike men, the female half of almost any team will appreciate special food containers. Choose bright and beautiful, but slightly large containers.
It should be noted that manufacturers already offer heated lunch boxes. They are convenient in offices where there are no special rooms for eating. Such a container works either from the network or from a USB port.
Among the unusual things that practical housewives will prefer, the following are noted.
- Pizza cutter. The pizza cutter has the shape of a sharp disc rotating on a handle-holder. It is coated with bright silicone for comfort, beauty and hygiene.
- Multifunctional Kitchen Accessoriesfor example openers or knives.
- Interesting cups having side pockets for a tea bag.
- Housekeeper. Small original storage boxes will help not to lose the keys by organizing a special place for them. Key holders are conveniently located not only in the apartment, but also in the office, at the cottage or in the cottage.
- Blankets. Now they are inexpensive. Nice to wrap yourself in a soft plush blanket on cold winter evenings.
- Large bath towels still remain a welcome gift for any practical woman.
Now there is an opportunity to choose not only quality, but also colors, themes of the picture. Nominal options exist.
The man
If the team is purely masculine and, in addition, cheerful, there is an opportunity to pick up cool presents. For example, beer mugs with funny phrases or shapes. Now there are many such gifts on sale. They are relatively inexpensive, but funny. For example, toilet paper with crosswords, a piggy bank in the form of a country toilet, signs on an office like “I do not take a bribe”.
One of the ideas often used in close-knit teams is t-shirts with funny inscriptions. The main thing is that employees share your humor.
If the team is mixed, and even of different ages, then you can pay attention to more neutral options for men's gifts. These include various devices for electronic devices.
- Holders for smartphones. There are very interesting specimens.
- Wireless speakers. Now manufacturers offer models that differ in design and additional features. For example, with a bright backlight, which will replace the New Year's garlands. The speakers produce not only various shapes, but also in the form of various figurines. Santa Claus or Snowman as a Christmas present will do.
- Flash drives or hard drives. Accumulators in modern society are a completely ordinary thing, which is always in use. Therefore, such a present has certain benefits.To enhance the New Year's effect, you can consider the options for flash drives in the form of different characters or animals, and download photos from the last New Year corporate party or a good nostalgic movie to your hard drive.
- USB fan.
- Power bank especially useful for employees who are often on business trips. The device is compact, therefore convenient on the road.
- Notebook stand with additional fan. Men will appreciate it because it is practical in every sense.
- Headphones. If there are music lovers in the team, then the accessory will be useful for them. Now the market offers different types and types of headphones, so when choosing you should focus on cost, technical specifications and external design.
For male bosses, it is customary to give stylish presents, such as leather-bound diaries, pens of good companies, interesting thematic ashtrays and lighters, and car accessories.
Sales representatives are now offering interesting kits with small bottles of quality expensive alcohol. Chocolate and, for example, tangerines are added to them. A good option would be a souvenir flask with engraving or in an interesting case. A small thermos bottle of an original form will also please a male employee.
To the collective
It happens that gifts are given together, rather than personal ones, for example, one department to another. In this case, it is necessary to understand what employees use together.
To raise the festive mood it is worth presenting a set of Christmas decorations for the design of the workplace. First you need to find out if employees can afford to do this, otherwise the set will gather dust on the shelf.
Mini gifts in the form of beautifully wrapped Christmas balls will delight every colleague, whether male or female. In large industries with a large number of employees, it is difficult to approach souvenirs individually, therefore, they use various useful little things as gifts.
- Office - pens, pencils, notebooks. They are either with the symbols of the plant, or with the New Year theme.
- Manual and overhead flashlights for storekeepers.
- Business card holders and key rings.
- Mugs They are ordinary or thermoses.
- Phone holders for a car or desktop.
- Named circles or glasses.
- Coasters for the office, corresponding to the festive theme.
- Paper clips in the form of different figures.
In a small office, you can please employees with a set of fragrant tangerine soap. Then the New Year's smell of essential oils will long remind you of the past holiday.
Do not forget about edible gifts, they are loved not only by children. Such presentations require festive packaging, selected with taste.
- Tea. Specialty stores offer a wide variety of different teas. It is better if you know the preferences of colleagues, then you can choose your own taste and aroma for each. A tea pair or teapot is also added to the set.
- Coffee. As a presentation, you need to choose it carefully and good elite varieties. If this is a collective gift that everyone will use, then it is better to stop at standard coffee without additives. As an individual presentation, choose a product based on the preferences of colleagues. You can add coffee or coffee to a couple of coffee. It should be noted that the drink is soluble, ground or cereal. Consider this when buying.
- Fragrant honey. A jar of real honey pleasure is a wonderful New Year's souvenir for connoisseurs. Sellers offer gift baskets consisting of several small containers with different types of honey.
- A bottle of sparkling champagne and a box of good chocolates at all times have been an excellent present in a friendly team.
- For lovers and connoisseurs, loving colleagues sometimes present a pair of jars of red and black caviar.
- Recently there have been masters offering themed gingerbread cookies. They fulfill orders for sets of cookies, cakes, natural marshmallows or handmade cupcakes. Having received such a sweet surprise, colleagues will be delighted.
Any gift in the New Year should be accompanied by a card with sincere congratulations. They are welcomed in any form: verses, prose, with or without humor, beautifully designed and always with captions. In the absence of talent, it is easy to purchase a ready-made option. Now masters make cards in different techniques, the most famous are scrapbooking and quilling. The first technique is to use a variety of materials and the ability to combine them profitably and beautifully. The second method can be called an application, where narrow strips of paper twisted into tight “snails” and laid according to the pattern are used as elements.
If the team is separated by distance, then a video surprise will be a great surprise. It all depends on creativity and a sense of humor. Decorated in the form of a song, dance, poem, it will cheer up colleagues at the other end of the line and leave an indelible impression on everyone. Corporate cake of the appropriate size and shape always makes a splash in the team.
Original ideas
Knowing perfectly the characters of their colleagues, you can sometimes soriginal, add creativity and humor. Then the success of the gift will be guaranteed. Unusual and creative little things appear on the shelves every New Year. You just need to be able to see them.
Cool chocolate bars, comic inscriptions, funny shapes of mugs and other devices will surprise and make your colleagues laugh. The mood will definitely be uplifted on New Year's days and after them. The only condition is mutual understanding, correctness, good knowledge of the characters and preferences of people. Colleagues should not hate you after receiving a presentation.
Do you want to give a handmade Christmas ball? Why not order a real master class on their self-painting for the entire department, and then exchange them. It will turn out interesting and unforgettable.
For employees staying long in the workplace, by the way, a mug heater will have to be. Such devices come in different configurations, for example, in the form of cookies "Orio". They are connected via a computer USB port. If tea or coffee has cooled, then the stand will help them reheat to 40 degrees.
Technical presentations include a keyboard vacuum cleaner. It has compact dimensions, perfectly copes with crumbs and dust stuck between the keys. A vacuum cleaner will be appreciated by all information workers.
Her one fun accessory is a mug, which itself stirs the contents. A button is located on its handle for these purposes. It’s quite convenient for the office.
The team can be in a good mood by exhibiting interesting cookies with predictions on the common holiday table. Then the corporate lunch will be fun and unforgettable. Predictions are only positive or fun.
If the head of the department is a cheerful, but explosive person, then he may well give employees small anti-stress toys. On the one hand, the present will be a kind of apology for past and future grievances, on the other, it will reveal its non-malignant character and show it as a humorous person.
Now interesting ecological things have appeared on sale, for example, “growing pencils”. They are made from pressed paper. On one side there is a capsule on them, in which the seed of a plant is hidden. After the accessory is written down, it is stuck in the ground with the capsule down and watered. After a while, the sprout will hatch. Such pencils are a very original and unusual New Year's surprise.
Another original thing worth asking is the hammock for the legs. It is hung under a table instead of a stand. Surely it will appeal to people who work a lot at the computer.
Covers for documents with cool drawings or a photograph of the owner - a very original surprise.
There are unique gifts, such as a coughing ashtray or a magic ball that gives answers when shaking.
Any present made by yourself will be unique. If you are engaged in beadwork, then think about the idea of key rings for keys, bags or backpacks. Nobody will give such a gift for sure.
A good option for book lovers will be bookmarks made of leather, birch bark, fabric, beads, wire, cardboard and other materials. Another hand-made item that has been popular lately is topiary. It is a small artificial tree with a crown made of different parts. In this quality, coffee beans, cones, beads, pompons, plastic flowers and twigs, ribbons and much more are suitable. Design depends only on the imagination of the master.
If you are a skilled baker, then bake fragrant gingerbread or delicious homemade cookies as New Year's gifts. We offer to put them in small woven bags, grab them with twine, tying tags with short wishes, you will make a splash exactly.
Selection tips
When choosing gifts for employees, it should be remembered that they should be in approximately the same price category. All employees understand that small budget presentations symbolize only attention, and do not indicate status, so you do not need to spend a lot of money to prove something to each other. Valuable expensive souvenirs are bought only together in order to present to the boss.
The choice of gifts for the New Year should be approached carefully. Be sure to use holiday packaging. Hand-made, it will add sincerity and charm. In the absence of time, you can purchase ready-made or order in advance from the master entertainers.
When creating New Year's Eve gifts Be sure to consider the age of colleagues. There are things that cannot be given to older people, they may not understand and be offended. When choosing, it is better to focus on universal things suitable for men and women, young people and people of age.
If you choose gifts with humor, remember, this is only appropriate in a very friendly team. Where relations are purely business, it is more correct to select strict gifts in the official style.
Inappropriate presents
There are things that are not worth giving at work. Usually they are intimate. These include underwear and perfume. For their choice, you need to know a person well enough, to be close to him. Communication in the office is not enough for this.
Often, for a collective New Year's presentation, bosses choose a convenient option for themselves - a certificate. However, think that with this choice you may only complicate the life of employees. A small amount is not enough to buy a worthwhile item, so they will have to pay extra, which will entail additional costs. Otherwise, the card will simply fall on someone's desk with a dead weight.
New Year's gifts should be budgetary, but not from the category of “cheap consumer goods”, so as not to spoil the mood with a breakdown on the day of presentation.
What else can be presented to colleagues for the New Year, see the next video.