Coming up how to protect your personal brand at the company Christmas party and how do you win the secret Santa on your team?

Great tips there and then a serious note on the gift

that you need to be giving every year. All right, welcome to the Ted Colvin's show.

All right, welcome to the Ted Colvin show.

Merry Christmas, or let's be honest,

none of you were listening to this on Christmas day.

If you are, you need a better life.

I'm just not going to sit here and self-indulge. If you're actually listening to this on the day it's released,

gosh, I love you, but you need a more exciting life. But thank you for those of you that are listening

after Christmas well this is the nature of podcast so we're gonna have some

fun today because well there's always next year to learn from some of the things I'm

about to share with you. So a couple of things I did some research the team

did actually I didn't do it full disclosure and since I'm being really honest with everybody

And I got two stories that stuck out to me these are real stories that people shared anonymously with business insider.

Okay, so here we go, Christmas Party nightmares.

One of the primary managers in this company likes to cook.

So what they decided to do was get everyone in the company

into a Zoom call and he sent them a list of ingredients.

And he cooked and we were supposed to follow along. Are you getting this now?

So all of a sudden the one of the managers in the company fashions himself as a cook and has his own cooking reality show.

And essentially says, hey, I know it would be fun for our Christmas party.

Let's all cook together and I'll lead you. This is a horrible idea.

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