Searching for a new kind of employee morale booster? Here is a fun way that employees can get acquainted and learn about the new employee as well as their co-workers.
ConfidenceCenter.com’s Weekly Newsletter – Aug. 13, 2013
August is “Help Teens Become Leaders Month”
Read about easy ways to teach teens leadership skills in this blog post. Pass it on to your children’s teachers.
Word and Quote of the Week
*** Opportunity ***
*** “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Trivia Question of the Week
Q. What country has the highest population density in Asia? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)
Employee Morale Activity
Icebreakers for New Employees
New employees often feel like they really don’t belong to the group. Here is a fun way that employees can get acquainted and learn something special about the new employee as well as their co-workers.
For dessert at a welcoming new employee lunch, pass around a bowl of M & M’s, tell people to take as many as they want, and put them on their plate or napkin.
Tell everyone in the group not to eat them yet.
First, tell them to say one thing about themselves for every one of their M & M’s. Then, go around the table so that the employees can tell interesting things about themselves. This way everyone gets to know each other better in a structured and fun atmosphere.
Easy ways to teach teens leadership skills
For Teachers, Youth Group Leaders (and parents of Teens)
School is starting soon, and there are many opportunities for junior high and high school students to be leaders in their schools. You can help.
We have made it easy to teach Leadership Skills to teens.
Download our Free Report,
Easy Ways to Teach Leadership Skills to Teens
at http://www.confidencecenter.com/serv10.htm
Students can learn leadership qualities, public speaking, creating a vision, creativity, planning, listening, persuading, developing trust, relating to different personality styles, etc. by doing fun exercises.
* Start a leadership class for teens at work in a meeting room.
* Get a group of teens together and hold a course at your home.
* Tell your children’s schools and youth group to start a leadership course for junior high and high school students.
Please pass this information to schools or youth groups that work with teenagers.
Answer to This Week’s Trivia Question
Q. What country has the highest population density in Asia?
A. The Republic of Singapore
Joke of the Week
Pulling Together
A guy drives into a ditch, but luckily, a farmer is there to help. He hitches his horse, Buddy, up to the car and yells, “Pull, Nellie, pull!” Buddy doesn’t move.
“Pull, Buster, pull!” Buddy doesn’t budge.
“Pull, Coco, pull!” Nothing.
Then the farmer says, “Pull, Buddy, pull!” And the horse drags the car out of the ditch.
Curious, the motorist asks the farmer why he kept calling his horse by the wrong name.
“Buddy’s blind,” said the farmer. “And if he thought he was the only one pulling, he wouldn’t even try.”
Free Employee Morale Video Series
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(c) Copyright 2013 Harriet Meyerson.
