It is no secret that today half of our life is held in direct contact with our colleagues, whether it be an office in the center of a capital city or an oil and gas field. Because what will be the interaction with colleagues, and often depends on the attitude to work, and mood, in general.
Friendly, positive relationships in the working team today are such a rarity that can never be lost, because in order for them to emerge, a lot of time is spent and significant efforts are made. Such simple actions as sincere congratulations to colleagues, a small gift, even for insignificant reasons, are always accepted positively, with joy.
Often when choosing a gift for a male business colleague, the presenter faces considerable difficulties. After all, with a female colleague in most cases, everything is pretty clear - a bouquet, and some kind of sweets, and something else more or less neutral will do.
In the case of the choice of a gift for a man, a lot of difficulties suddenly appear, and the original gift is the best to emphasize a sense of humor, creativity and creativity.
Recommendations for selection
To please 100%, you must at least superficially be familiar with a colleague, be aware of his passions and hobbies, spend at least a couple of times with him free time in some kind of entertainment. Another point - requires information that he prefers to drink from alcohol. It is no secret that one of the most popular men's gifts is collectible varieties of cognac or other alcoholic beverages, so you should not put it in an uncomfortable position if a colleague does not drink alcohol.
In general, a gift can be very pleased with a person if he is very passionate about something. Hobbies are very different - from playing the balalaika and collecting stamps to auto racing and scuba diving for a while.
Respectively, a gift made with taste and on time, and a colleague’s hobby, can not only please the latter, but also greatly strengthen the relationship between two men.
It is very often for a person who does not have the refinement of taste or some original thinking, to choose some kind of original gift becomes a difficult task.
In this case, it will be useful to contact dealers or creative agents.
Any catalog of original gifts from well-known manufacturing companies that is sure to be found in any agency will do. They are well versed in the specifics of such requests and will certainly be able to offer such original ideas that not everyone can do.
Of course, the possibility of contacting such an agency should be considered only after the stages of questioning friends and mutual acquaintances are completed, and there are not enough own thoughts. Advertising agencies are always intermediaries for a producer-customer pair. As a rule, their services are used by those companies that are planning to launch a campaign that provides souvenir production for business partners, but they will not refuse to carry out a private order.
Symbolic gifts
In addition to the fact that a gift can be simply useful or tasty, it can also have a symbolic meaning. For example, if a gift is made to a person leaving for a well-deserved rest or leaving his workplace for some other reason, you can choose something symbolic, some valuable souvenir as a gift.Sometimes they make orders, medals, on which do engraving with warm words.
Such memorabilia are stored for a long time and with warmth they remember those who gave them. Another option - cups, figurines, paintings, photo calendars, depicting the main character of the event. You can make a picture on canvas, which will include a mosaic of fragments of photos of all colleagues.
Gifts for men, dedicated to some holiday date (the most popular, of course, February 23), can also make sense. Nowadays, they usually give some pleasant trifle: a tea or coffee mug, a key ring, a T-shirt, which can be beautifully and unusually arranged by printing an inscription on it, a drawing, or a photo corresponding to the subject of the holiday.
It would be appropriate to shower or shaving set, presented properly, hand-made soap, all this will be useful as a gift, presented by fellow colleagues for a fellow guy.
Original ideas
Creative, funny, humorous, unusual gifts are relevant for almost any reason, it would be useful to be tactful when they are presented. So, the presentation of the so-called running alarm those who often come to work late, can save him from such a habit. Such alarm clocks, when it comes time to get up, literally “run away” from the host and usually roll into a hard-to-reach place from where they have to be taken out for a long time. In the process, the volume of the call rises.
Other types of such original alarm clocks are a device suspended above a sleeping man on a string, which starts ringing while rising to the ceiling, and you have to get out of bed to get it off and on.
But the device itself is considered to be the most original in an impact-resistant casing, which does not turn off until you strike it with force on some kind of solid surface.
Gifts that cause certain emotions in male colleagues may be the best surprise. Again - for this you need to know well the tastes of colleagues. This can be a ticket to the performance of his favorite singer, to a hockey or a football match of his favorite team, which will be able to please and inspire him.
Gourmet Gifts
If a colleague is a sweet tooth, then his colleagues are known, as a rule. In this case, you can please him with a personalized chocolate gift set or ice cream cake, on which his name or a wish for a pleasant appetite is written. If a person loves and appreciates good liquor, the donor has a direct road to a good wine shop.
A good addition to a bottle of good wine is a set of delicately packaged wine glasses (or glasses, if presented with brandy), a reusable original cork.
Lovers of travel can give a gift one of the travel setswhich consist of a flask and a set of metal glasses with an engraving of his name.
Useful things
The choice of a gift to a male colleague is quite wide, but still the gift should not only be creative, but also have practical benefits. For example, if a colleague has become a happy father, a warm blanket for a baby, bed linen with an original ornament, unusual educational toys, a designer stroller, a swing will be very appropriate to the place. All this must be properly packaged, arranged and presented. It is also a good idea to add what the baby needs first: a set of pacifiers, rattles and so on.
Exist simulators that train the reaction, which can be given to a comrade in the men's team, pursuing such goals that surely such a present will be enjoyed by the whole team.
When the birthday man is an open-life office colleague, you can donate a book-safe, a prestigious brand pen, an electronic notebook, an original flash drive, a key holder, a massage cape for an office chair, a beautiful ID / passport cover, an original banknote clip, a wallet (in the latter, it is advisable to put some kind of small denomination bill).
On such gifts, an engraved wish will look quite solid.
A gift in the form of hours, projecting the testimony of time on a flat surface, is also one of the popular and original gifts. If a colleague is a passionate car enthusiast, it would be appropriate car accessorylike a mug heated from a USB port or connected to a cigarette lighter for this, car vacuum cleaner, mobile phone stand that is convenient to use inside the car.
Any motorcyclist will be happy to receive one of the motorcycle accessories like a helmet, gloves, points for racing. And also a lover of extreme sensations will be very pleased with the certificate that allows you to jump with a parachute or dive with an aqualung.
If a colleague has a reason for a gift - an ardent fan of tourism, the selection of a gift should also not cause difficulties: the tourist will have a roomy and reliable backpack or travel bag; solar cell phone charger, penknife or multitool, light and warm sleeping bag, tent and the like.
It is not customary to give male colleagues clothing items, but small accessories like a tie or a clip for it, a pair of cufflinks, a belt will always be a relevant gift.
Smoking colleague will certainly be happy branded lighter, beautiful ashtray, branded tube and a good supply of tobacco, cigars, a device for cutting the tip of a cigar. In addition to gifts, which a male colleague will be happy, there are a number of items that are not worth giving, because not all that one considers worthwhile attention will please another, and in a certain situation it would be appropriate.
In this article we are talking about male colleagues, who are not always people who are familiar or close in spirit, sharing life priorities. It may well be that the gift will be intended for an employee who merely shares the work space with a colleague and is completely unwilling to open a soul to a neighbor just because both of them have the same education, or they work in the same specialty. For this reason overly bold and controversial gifts can confuse a colleague, put him in an awkward position.
It is worth remembering (especially if the gift is presented by a woman) that you should not be in the habit of giving perfume, clothes, equipment or religious items.
These are very slippery categories of gifts, and you need to be one hundred percent sure that the gift will be accepted with pleasure. If the gift is made by a female colleague, for sure the careless choice will be regarded as a hint.
Another category of gifts is cash. Such gifts are made on behalf of the entire team (in this case, they usually collect a substantial amount), but not on behalf of one person. Male colleagues may misinterpret personal congratulations on such a collective holiday as the celebration of the New Year, a professional holiday, when they are celebrated with the whole team.
Another thing is a birthday or anniversary greeting. This holiday is usually waited as one of the most important in the year, and it is always a pleasure for the birthday man to see that his colleagues have not forgotten about this date, and they rejoice with her in jubilee. In general, the ability to properly give gifts is not an easy art, but having mastered it perfectly, you can give a lot of positive emotions to a variety of people, without making any effort to that.
You can see some original gift ideas for colleagues in the next video.
