Tom Krieglstein describes annual host-family dinners where volunteers open their homes to small groups of coworkers. A few team members host, the rest rotate through their houses on the same night. Sharing a meal in someone's home builds trust and connection far better than office icebreakers.
Tip number seven. It is low cost, but it is high relay, meaning you really got to trust each other to go to this one. It is to have a dinner at someone's house. So what you do is once a year or something, you ask for host families, meaning people within your team, your organization, they're willing to host a dinner for the other people within the team organization. Thanks for inviting me over for dinner. So let's say you have 100 people on your team or in your organization or your community. 10 people commit to hosting a dinner. So obviously that means that every person's going to have 10 people that they're going to feed you then find out who the 10 people are going to host it, and then divide your team, your community up so that they have a host family that they're going to go have dinner at. And then ideally, all on the same night, everyone has dinner together, but at different houses. I know it's a lot more to go to someone's house and commit to doing that, but imagine how strong the relationships and the bonds are going to be when they physically go into someone's house versus just only interacting with them in the office.
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