Let’s face it. Meetings are boring. Here are ways to make your meetings more exciting with fantasy tropes.
1. Require each employee to attend the meeting in masks and robes. Use numbers instead of name tags.
2. Require each employee to submit their proposal about how to finally get that Smaug’s treasure.
3. Cover yourself in leaves and speak like an Ent, book a twenty-hour meeting.
4. Give your boss the honorific of Mother of Dragons, bonus if you can breathe fire with little toot, toot noises.
5. Hire a guy with a staff and a robe to bellow the name of each person and all their titles as they enter the room, “Mark Markson, Chief Financial Officer, Cruncher of Numbers, Master of Spreadsheets, Keeper of Finances, Speaker of Truths.”
6. Hire a guy with a headman’s axe and hood to stand behind you. If anyone asks, say, “Larry? He’s always been here. He works down in grievances.”
7. Remove the table, the chairs, and just have the Iron Throne in the conference room.
8. Start using fantasy swearing. “Blood and bloody ashes, third quarter was rough.”
9. Mood music, Game of Thrones intro for that sales meeting, the shire for that public relations meeting.
10. Require every dispute to be decided via trial by combat. “Tim in marketing and Marsha in product design, you know what to do. To the weapons rack.”
11. Armor that doesn’t really protect but looks cool day.
12. Elevenses.
13. Dress and act like Smeagol when presenting a project that is precious to you.
14. Make sure all deadlines are cryptic. “Have that report on the 11th day of the full blood moon.”
15. Overly rely on the Witcher slaying a monster analogies. “Alright, at this job fair, Bob will be the potion with black eyes and veins, Jalicia you are the sword that will cut the limbs of the multiheaded creature, and Jackie, hand push force maneuver thing. Everyone got their role? Let’s do this.”
16. Over dramatize everything. “Come brothers and sisters of the A+ CPAs, we shall face this tax season with our heads high, and if we die, we will die defending the earned income tax credit, and if we bleed, we will bleed for home interest deductions. FOR GLORY!”
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