How to Throw a Company Holiday Party on a Budget

This presentation is inspired by the SmartDraw Blog post entitled,

“How to Throw a Company Holiday Party on a Budget”

To view the full blog posting go to http://blog.smartdraw.com/

SmartDraw Tip: To create an infographic you can start by navigating to the Infographic Category and leveraging the templates, data charts, or examples.

When I created this particular infographic I wasn't able to find a Santa Clause like symbol within the library. Instead, I used the Home Ribbon's Shape control. After combining two hearts, one rectangle, and circle I was able to create a Santa hat to add on top of my figure.

SmartDraw Tip: You can easily save this party planning check list as a template in SmartDraw. Learn how in my previous post titled “How to Increase Productivity Using Custom Templates.” In addition, if you find that there are certain individuals who are responsible for certain tasks each year you can save their names and those tasks that are assigned to them. Simply enter their names into the Mind Map before saving it as a Custom Template.

Have a Party Planning Committee

SmartDraw Tip: Invitations set the theme for the event. And when you create your invitations in SmartDraw, you can also create a whole suite of stationary including programs, place cards, gift tags, and signs. The possibilities are endless.

When I created the invitation, I wanted it to be fun and festive. The challenge was to find a fun and festive font. Initially, none of the fonts were working. Yet, when I decided to italicize the font it was exactly what I was looking for.

Make Your Own Invitations

SmartDraw Tip: To ensure that each name can be easily read, I added a white transparent background. To make a shape transparent, simply select the shape then navigate to the Fill menu found in the Home Ribbon. Located below the Standard Colors section of the menu, you'll find the Transparency options. Select one of the options.

Arrange Assigned Seating

SmartDraw Tip: I wasn't able to find clip art of presents in the SmartDraw Library. So, I created the presents using squares and triangles. Once I created one, I simply added it to my SmartDraw Library as a Custom Symbol just like I would a Custom Template. That made creating the next one a matter of clicking and dragging the symbols from the Library into the Work Area.

Add Some Fun Into the Mix

Host a Holiday Gift Exchange

Go to the SmartDraw Blog to download your FREE

SmartDraw Holiday Party Planning Kit

Simply down load the kit, open the file, and the "Holiday Party Planning Kit" will automatically appear in your Custom Categories folder in

SmartDraw. You'll have all the source files of the diagrams in this blog. Edit the diagrams and you've got your party planning started for you.

About RuthJoy Bitner, M.Ed.With a M.Ed. in Human Resource Development and Organizational Behavior, RuthJoy has become a trustedadvisor and educator working with mid-market to globalorganizations providing change management and useradoption strategy services for more than 15 years. As theDirector of Learning and Organizational Development ofSmartDraw Software she continues to coach and mentor

professionals from non-profits to Fortune 500 companies.

An unashamed perfectionist and absolute “SmartDraw Addict,” she discovers innovative ways to use diagrams in her day-to-day activities to increase productivity and efficiency for herself as well as her clients.

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