Choose an HR person or a manager to be responsible for monitoring the participants' behavior at the party and ensure it will remain professional.
Set special party planning meetings
Appoint a committee to organize the party and ensure that your whole team regularly attends its meetings.
Remind of appropriate behavior
Send a memo to all your employees highlighting the party is a business-related issue and everyone is obliged to behave appropriately.
Ban anything provocative
Explicitly ban "suggestive" gifts, "provocative" decorations or clothing and "risky" entertainment.
Ban dancing
If a music group or a DJ performs at you party, do not allow them to play slow songs.
Hold the party during the day
Arrange the party early in the afternoon or even better as a family event. It will help you limit the consumption of alcohol.
Ban alcohol
Do you really think someone will come?
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Article source Fortune.com - website of the American business magazine Fortune