Who Says You Can't Have Fun at Office Meetings?

By Benecia Beyer

Does your company have office meetings that put people to sleep? How about a long and boring conference call?

Here's a great way to infuse some fun into your office meeting with BUZZWORD BINGO !

Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. The rules resemble those of bingo but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player's card is a matrix of buzzwords. When a player hears one of his buzzwords spoken in the meeting, he crosses it off his card. The winner is the player who crosses a full line first and exclaims, "Bingo!" Part of the game, unlike in regular bingo, is having sufficient courage to yell out "Bingo!" in the middle of the meeting, especially as the winning buzzwords are likely to have been uttered by "the boss".

Make sure there is a preprinted card for each employee. You can do this by either making up your own different cards based on particular terminology or "buzzwords" for your company OR there is even a website that will do this for you. Just go to the website, print the card, do a refresh (and a new and different card is automatically generated for you.

Have some fun!