TL;DR Early preparation and repeat communications are the keystones for high team engagement. A 2-days Team off-site is a good balance between team engagement, agenda and budget. Relative loose agenda will help the team to know each other better, especially people from different offices. Organising Team Off-site for multiple offices is not an easy job, it needs lots of planning, preparation, coordination, and contingency plan. Sponsorship from external vendor is not essential, but good to have....

This week I got a task to randomly generate pairs based on a name list. After googling on the internet, I found a perfect solution to achieve my goal. Here are the detailed steps to achieve a random pair of two, and it’s easy to adjust to your specific needs. All the example data and formula can be found in this Google Sheet: Random Pairs . Steps Step 1 - Generate random numbers using RAND() Firstly, we need to generate a random number against each name, we can use the RAND() function to achieve that....

In the previous post around Effective Meetings in Workspace , I talk about some general best practice about a productive meeting. Normally a meeting can be organised based on following phrases. In this page, I am going to write down some practical tips for facilitating a productive workshop. Before meeting kick-off In the meeting Post meeting follow-up Before Kick-Off Preparation. Get to the meeting room if you have. Get yourself a cup of water if you need....

Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder. – Lindy West As a professional in workspace, we’ve all been participant in different kinds of meetings, 1 on 1s, agile ceremonies, design reviews etc. It’s fair to say that most of our professional time in our career is occupied by meetings. If a meeting has 12 attendances and there are 5 minutes been wasted with off-topic discussion, we are simply talking about one hour of productivity loss....

Career Fair is probably the easiest way for university student directly meet employees. Good internship experiences will easier help you stand out of your peers, and help you quickly finish and smooth the transiting from an university student to a professional. Employee and Hiring Manager Specific role page. A simple printed page of the role is quite important, i.e. “Software Engineer Intern” on an A4 page with 32 font size is enough....