Ways to treat your team!

A SHORT break can hold a lot of promise! It can be rejuvenating and even profitable. Especially, for a boss who is hard-pressed to spend some quality time with his team.

The lunch break can be creatively used to gain mileage with team members, win their trust, put them at ease and to motivate them.

Seven ways to treat your team to lunch:

Munch time

If your team believes in lunching together, use this opportunity to spend time with them. Be informal and get to know each team member.

Talk about neutral issues rather than discussing work. Remember this is the time that most folk tend to unwind for a short while before getting into the groove again.

A scenic pause

If it's been ages since you've jived with your team, take them out.

Albeit, try to make it during the lunch hour so as to not to disrupt their work schedule. Order for lunch packs and set out for the nearest art gallery, a bowling alley or even the neighbourhood park!

Take away

Or take your team out to lunch at a restaurant close by.

An informal, on the spur treat such as this can put the enthusiasm back in your team's work life.

A real treat

Sponsor a lunch at the office. Order for some pizzas/burgers for your team and eat out on the terrace or in your cabin, with some coffee or coke thrown in.

At home

If you're adventurous enough, invite your team home for a home cooked meal. This should help the team spirit soar higher.

On the road

Get a little creative. Kidnap your team to have lunch with a difference. Visit a chaat joint and let them have whatever they want to their heart's content.

For something more filling, there's the dhabha option too.

Tora tora

One is never too old for an amusement park! An hour of excitement is perhaps just what your team needs.

However, this requires a long lunch break and is an ideal unwinding treat to be given during weekends.

Just an excuse

Any small achievement is reason enough to celebrate. So give your team a taste of luxury, a lunch at a five-star restaurant with all the works. But of course, the company's exchequer needs to be deep!

Whicheverway you choose to do it, you will have gained your team's unstinted support.

SAMYUKTA KODA

samyukta.hyd@cnkonline.com