Bring Your Talent to Work

This is such a fun way to get to know more about the people you work with.

Designate one hour (or maybe one hour and a half) of one day as Bring Your Talent to Work Time. Invite anyone who wants to participate to sign up so you have a count of how many participants there will be and what their gigs will be so that an information sheet and schedule of activities can be available the day of the event.

Either provide food or encourage people to brown bag it on the day of the event.

And then sit back and have a blast. You'll find knitters and weavers; painters, sculptors and drawers; dancers of every shape and kind; clowns and jugglers; mimes; writers of poetry, fiction, etc; musicians (depending on whether there are noise constraints); and so forth and so on.

I have attended one such Bring Your Talent to Work Day thanks to friends at Innovative Interfaces, Inc., and even participated in it, and a really good time was had by everyone. I think this would be true in your organization, too.