[suzitozer]

I'm writing a book and I'd like to include your ideas. Any creative ideas for announcing the company picnic to the employees? This is what I have so far:

Send an email with a special dessert for the first eight employees that RSVP. Or enter employees that RSVP by a certain date in a special drawing or additional game tickets.
• Have an employee walk through the office dressed in a themed costume handing out flyers about the picnic.
• Set up a table near the door where employees can drop their RSVPs into a picnic basket.
• Have employees sign up in advance for pie eating contests or watermelon seed spitting contests. Send out an email challenging someone to beat the ones that have signed up.
• Add a line about the picnic to all of your in-house email signatures, memos and correspondence.
• Have the invitation blown up to poster size and displayed prominently at the entrances and near the elevators.
• Put colorful flyers on the door of the bathroom stalls.
• Send out pictures from past years picnics. Include the funny ones where people are acting goofy, laughing, and having fun.
• Announce that company appreciation gifts will be handed out at the picnic
• Announce that the annual picnic will be a fund raiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, United Way or the company non profit of choice. Announce that the senior management will be in a dunking tank at the company picnic or they will be able to participate in a “pie in the face” event throwing pies at their boss.
• Text everyone the day before the picnic saying you can’t wait to see them there.
Thank you for your input!!!!!!!!!!!

[LisaOlsen]

Here's a few ideas:

Put something in the paychecks when they go out.

Create a "jingle" and do a companywide voice mail message to "sing" the picnic announcement.

Have a contest between departments to see how many from each dept attend.

Have each department come up with a game to play at the picnic and give a prize for the best game. Come up with some fun and weird criteria the games have to follow. (i.e, not just Tag, but a crazy version of tag).

[lhoffman]

Have the Owner/CEO/GM work the grill - as a "celebrity" chef. Advertise this in the invitation.

Ask staff to bring one of their favorite desserts. (This is a tradition for one of our corporate clients.)

Pass out custom tattoos with the invitation for staff to wear in order to attend the Picnic.

Good luck!