This is the time of year when many organizations sponsor holiday cookie exchanges and cookie and dessert events for employees. Some are more successful than others, I’ve noticed. One client company generally purchases hundreds of cookies as a back up because they never know how many employees will bake cookies for the event.
With this in mind, Terri Starnes, a Human Resource Administrator at Union Power Cooperative, sent me a great idea. She said, “We have a dessert contest at our annual Christmas luncheon. The prizes are $50, $25, and $10 gift cards. The gift cards seem to entice employees to get busy baking and the desserts are out of this world!” Sounds like a winning tip to me, especially when baking is competing with so many holiday events each year.
Then, there is a friend of mine, who is a Human Resources Assistant at a small manufacturing company, who participates in an annual cookie baking tradition over the Thanksgiving weekend. With her Mom, aunts, cousins, sisters, and other female relatives, she mass produced over 3,000 cookies for the holidays this year. Sounds like a very nice family tradition, too.
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