Is your employee morale frightfully low? Plan for Halloween with a week of fun ideas in this newsletter.
ConfidenceCenter.com’s Weekly Newsletter – Sept. 24, 2013
Plan for Halloween with a week of fun ideas in this newsletter.
Word and Quote of the Week
*** Forgiveness ***
*** Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. It means that you let go of your resentment.
Trivia Question of the Week
Q. How many bones are there in each ankle of the average human body? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)
Employee Morale Booster
Make Halloween a Week of Fun
You can create a lot of employee spirit during the month of October if you plan ahead for Halloween fun. So, create a committee of spirit minded employees and start planning.
* Decorate
You can decorate your office for the whole month of October. Make it a group effort where everyone can use their creativity to make decorations.
Create a haunted house atmosphere with ghosts, spiders and spider webs, jack-o-lanterns, black cats, etc.
Employees will be excited to make their creative contribution.
* Monday – Jack-O-Lantern Contest
Pumpkin decorating contest. Employees bring in their decorated pumpkins to display.
To light the Jack-O-Lanterns without using real candles, use small battery operated candles.
Award prizes to the
- most creative,
- ugliest,
- scariest,
- prettiest,
- largest &
- smallest.
Get patterns for making creative Jack-O-Lanterns at http://www.pumpkinmasters.com/
* Tuesday – Scavenger Hunt
Have a scavenger hunt for Halloween Candy and Goodies.
* Wednesday – Wear a funny hat or wig day.
Give prizes for the wackiest.
* Thursday – Cookie Contest
Each person brings in a dozen or more decorated homemade cookies. Cookies are judged on taste and design.
Serve witches brew with the cookies – punch in a black pot.
* Friday – Costume Contest
Everyone can either dress up in costume – or wear black and orange. Award prizes for costumes. Get an audio tape of scary Halloween sounds and play it at times during the day. Pass out Halloween treats to everyone.
Answer to This Week’s Trivia Question
Q. How many bones are there in each ankle of the average human body?
A. Seven
Joke of the Week
A new manager spends a week at his new office with the manager he is replacing. On the last day the departing manager tells him, “I have left three numbered envelopes in the desk drawer. Open an envelope if you encounter a crisis you can’t solve.”
Three months down the track there is a major drama, everything goes wrong – the usual stuff – and the manager feels very threatened by it all. He remembers the parting words of his predecessor and opens the first envelope. The message inside says “Blame your predecessor.” He does this and gets off the hook.
About half a year later, the company is experiencing a dip in profits, combined with serious product problems. The manager quickly opens the second envelope. The message read, “Reorganize.” This he does, and the company quickly rebounds.
Three months later, at his next crisis, he opens the third envelope. The message inside says “Prepare three envelopes”.
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(c) Copyright 2013 Harriet Meyerson.
