You've been asked to organise a team-building event. Great news! Everyone loves a day out of the office, right?

Well, perhaps not everyone.

A new year is the perfect opportunity to bring people together, refresh working relationships and give your team something genuinely positive to look forward to. And no, we're not talking about another meeting in a conference room with a PowerPoint presentation!

The spookiest time of year is fast approaching, and while ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night might be enough to keep some people entertained, we think there’s a much better way to celebrate the spooky season at work.

There are some television programmes that have become part of the national conversation. You watch them with your colleagues, talk about them around the coffee machine the next morning and, inevitably, start wondering if you could do any better than the people on it.  This autumn, two of the UK's biggest TV shows are giving us plenty to talk about.

The leaves are turning, the evenings are getting darker and, suddenly everyone is talking about the same things again: who the Traitors are, whether that cake really is underbaked and why nobody in the office has remembered to turn the heating on.

The Christmas countdown has well and truly begun, so now is a great time to start thinking about your Christmas party…we’re here to help and not cause panic!