Activities To Plan For Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day
Participating in Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day can improve morale, productivity and PR for your employees and company. Consider planning several activities as you celebrate this event on April 25.
Host a Welcome Breakfast
Invite employees and guests to mingle and meet. Let guests decorate their name tags, hand out schedules for the day’s events and start talking about the day’s purpose.
Facilitate Department Tours
Divide participants into small groups for department tours. Small groups allow everyone to see, hear and participate in the presentations.
Plan Interactive Events
Enhance the day’s fun with interactive events. Ask kids to sketch a picture that describes your business or provide coloring pages of pictures that are related to your company. You can also hold a scavenger hunt, play Bingo, or hide company-related objects around the office and challenge kids to find each object. If you do schedule lectures, presentations and panel discussions, plan an interactive event afterward to reduce boredom.
Let Kids Try
Child participants can use safe equipment, answer the phones, operate the cash register, and perform other hands-on activities as they learn about your company’s operations.
Ask Questions
Encourage kids to ask questions about the company. Employees can also ask the kids questions about what careers interest them, what they would do differently in each department of your company and what new insights they gained from the day’s events.
Solve a Problem
Let kids solve a common business problem. They can decide how to handle rude customers, brainstorm ways to boost productivity or create a marketing strategy for a new product. Divide the kids into groups to teach them more about teamwork, an important aspect of most companies.
Schedule Time with Parents or Mentors
In addition to spending time with other adults, children should have time to shadow or hang out with their parents or mentors on Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day.
Arrange an Informal Lunch
Employees and their guests can share lunch and process what they've learned during an informal lunch.
Record the Day
Create a hashtag for the event and ask participants to share photos and thoughts about their experience on your social media page. Or provide pens and paper so participants can take notes. This activity helps kids and adults recap what they learned and serves as a record of the day’s events.
Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day is important for your company. These events improve the success and fun of this valuable day.