Brown bag
What ?
A brown bag lunch is an open session that is organized during the lunch time.
It can have various formats :
- Conference
- Open discussion about any topics
- Watching and debriefing of a video
- Review of twitter subscriptions / news reading
- …
Why ?
This kind of event has at least 3 goals:
- Enhance employees skills and knowledge by sharing ideas, new projects or insights
- Build team work
- Spread a positive and ongoing learning culture
How ?
- Find a topic you want to share
- Your current project
- A new framework
- A discovery
- …
- Lock a date (during lunch time)
- Invite a large audience
- Present your topic
Our tips
- Don’t limit the audience
- Don’t limit yourself to content that is directly aligned with your current work
- Provide lunch -> find sponsorship
- Make sure everyone takes something away
- Always leave plenty of time for discussion / sharing