{"id":1177,"date":"2013-06-18T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:20:26","slug":"employee-morale-july-is-telecommuter-appreciation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-july-is-telecommuter-appreciation-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: July is Telecommuter Appreciation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Interested in an employee morale booster that goes the distance? This is a month to appreciate the contributions of the employees who work from home or who travel and rarely, if ever, come to the office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; June 18, 2013<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Progress ***<\/p>\n<p>*** Never discourage anyone&#8230;who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. &#8211; Plato (427 BC -347 BC)<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What constitutes 12 percent of an egg&#8217;s weight? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale Special Days to Celebrate<\/h3>\n<h3>July is: Telecommuter Appreciation Month<\/h3>\n<p>This is a month to appreciate the contributions of the employees who work from home or who travel and rarely, if ever, come to the office.<\/p>\n<p>Activity ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include telecommuters in on the day to day happenings at the office with a company blog.<\/li>\n<li>Set up a regular conference call with 3 or 4 employees at the beginning or the end of the day so that they can feel connected to what\u00d5s going on at the office..<\/li>\n<li>If they live in the same city, but work from home, invite them to any luncheons or office activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>July is also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>National Recreation And Parks Month &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>National Hot Dog Month &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>National Blueberry Month &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>National Ice Cream Month &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Canada Day<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; U.S.A Independence Day<\/p>\n<p>15 &#8211; Rembrandt&#8217;s Birthday (1606)<\/p>\n<p>20 &#8211; Anniversary Of Man&#8217;s First Landing On The Moon &#8211; 1969<\/p>\n<p>22 &#8211; Parent&#8217;s Day<\/p>\n<p>27 &#8211; National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day<\/p>\n<h3>Plan ahead<\/h3>\n<h3>August is: Help Teens Become Leaders Month<\/h3>\n<p>You can easily teach a leadership course to teenagers with our:<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Teens &#8211; Tomorrow&#8217;s Leaders Instructor&#8217;s Manual.<\/p>\n<p>It contains step-by-step lessons you can adapt to your schedule.<\/p>\n<p>See what the lessons are and what parents, teachers, and teens have to say about the course<\/p>\n<p>at: http:\/\/www.ConfidenceCenter.com\/serv10.htm<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What constitutes 12 percent of an egg&#8217;s weight?<\/p>\n<p>A. The shell<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>A man is madly in love with a princess and wants to propose, but an evil witch has cast a spell on him, and now he can say only one word a year. So he waits 14 agonizing years\u2014accumulating all his words\u2014before approaching his beloved.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the big day arrives. When he sees her, his heart skips a beat. He gathers his nerve, drops to his knees, and intones, &#8220;My darling,\u00a0 I have waited many years to say this: Will you marry me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The princess turns around, smiles, and says,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pardon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Free Employee Morale Video Series<\/h4>\n<p>See free videos on how to create employee spirit teams: <a href=\"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/spirit-teams-2\/\">Get Instant Access to the Employee Spirit Team Magic Video Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(c) Copyright 2013 Harriet Meyerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in an employee morale booster that goes the distance? This is a month to appreciate the contributions of the employees who work from home or who travel and rarely, if ever, come to the office. This is our creative low-cost morale booster in this issue of our newsletter, Employee Morale Tips. The newsletter also has a motivational quote, trivia, and joke of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}