Fun helps keep employees happy – Employee happiness is essential for a smoothly-functioning, effective business. Even the smallest gestures can help your employees be more satisfied with their jobs. Of course, we know happy employees = happy customers and happy customers are more likely to continue to do business with your company. Finding fun themes to overlay to your training will get people excited to attend and learn. We have seen at Ingram Micro an increase of training retention and goals success with our Geek Week training. People remember years later that one of their managers played the role of Mean Gene Okerland interviewing their tech Power lead as Randy 'Macho Man' Savage talking about full solutioning techniques with vendors like APC and HPE. Making your training standout gives it memory retention and can yield better results with your team.

Pop Culture goes beyond books movies and TV, we have people on our teams that are foodies, coffee lovers, and beer afficionados, get them talking about those things that they love and you'll get them working together stronger as a team. Employees can get to know each other – This is an especially great benefit if your company has multiple departments or locations, and many employees don’t know each other very well. Building stronger relationships internally can help with teamwork, respect and communication.