Searching for an honorable way to raise employee morale? Celebrate Presidents Day with interesting activities for your staff members.
ConfidenceCenter.com’s Weekly Newsletter – February 4, 2014
Word and Quote of the Week
*** Courage ***
(Download this word on a printable poster in the Employee Morale Center. Info at http://www.EmployeeMoraleCenter.com)
*** “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”
—Jack Canfield: speaker, author, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Trivia Question of the Week
Q. What kind of dog is Charles Schultz’s Snoopy? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)
Employee Morale Activity
Presidents Day
Presidents day in the USA is Monday Feb. 17, 2014
You will need a list of past presidents and information about each one for these activities. It can be found at www.ipl.org/div/potus/
Pop Presidents Quiz
At a meeting give an on the spot, pop quiz to see who can list the most U.S. presidents. Give a prize to the winner.
Presidents Appreciation Day
After your Pop Quiz, pass a list of the presidents around, and let each person choose one president by writing his/her name next to it on your list.
Then announce that you will have a Presidents Appreciation Day.
Speeches
On Presidents Appreciation Day, each employee will come to work with a 2- 4 minuted speech on his/her chosen president including what special quality that president had that is also important to success at your company – such as:
- courage,
- persistence,
- creativity, etc.
Poster Contest
Give each person a poster board on which to create a colorful poster about their chosen President and the quality that president stood for.
At the Appreciation Day celebration the employee gives the speech without revealing the name of the president, and then gives the participants 30 seconds to guess the name of the president.
The president’s name is revealed by showing the poster. People who guess right get a small gift or candy bar.
Create a Patriotic Atmosphere
- Decorate the room with Red, White, and Blue.
- Display the American flag.
- Play patriotic music.
- Sing patriotic songs.
Answer to This Week’s Trivia Question
Q. What kind of dog is Charles Schultz’s Snoopy?
A. Beagle
Joke of the Week
When a co-worker opened his express checkout line at the supermarket where we work, his first customer bought a large bag of dog food. They soon discovered they were both proud rottweiler owners and launched into a discussion of the breed’s virtues.
When the next customer stepped up, he plopped a box of dishwasher detergent on the conveyor and deadpanned, “Mine’s a Maytag!”
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(c) Copyright 2014 Harriet Meyerson, The Confidence Center
