Profiles should help other employees 'get to know' a co-worker with whom they're not familiar. Such activities also help personalize leaders or employees in areas where it's easy for others to create stereotypes about certain departments or leadership areas. The Yearbook could easily be translated onto other communication media, such as the intranet site or bulletin board. Of course, any idea for a meeting or other communication tactic must be tailored for your organizational culture and to suit the personalities of the people within your group. And any idea must be thought through, so that fun isn't created at the expense of any individual or group.
Mindful meetings leave participants feeling respected, and respectful.
Think of ideas such as these as clay, from which you can mold an activity that fits your group, yet exceeds the norms of the same, boring meeting approaches. Meeting participants leave the meeting feeling energized and more aware of the people with whom they work. Send a fun, intriguing invitation. Don't rely on your typical presentation slides to do anything but cause participants to tune out after the first ten slides. Use presentation slide software to complement presentations, but don't overuse them.