{"id":1308,"date":"2013-07-30T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:08:38","slug":"employee-morale-ring-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-ring-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Ring The Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How about an employee morale booster with a ringing endorsement? Ring a bell and make an announcement every time an employee does something special.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; July 30, 2013<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Dream ***<\/p>\n<p>*** You see things; and you say, &#8216;Why?&#8217; But I dream things that never were; and I say, &#8220;Why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What are the 8 vegetables in V8 juice? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale Activity:<\/h3>\n<h3>Ring The Bell<\/h3>\n<p>Employees love excitement and recognition. You can accomplish both, and at no cost, by ringing a loud cow bell and making an announcement every time an employee does something special.<\/p>\n<p>However, if your workplace is not conducive to the noise of a loud bell, you can get a quieter bell, or someone can quietly walk around with a poster that announces the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Someone makes a sale &#8211; ring the bell<\/p>\n<p>Someone completes a difficult assignment &#8211; ring the bell<\/p>\n<p>Someone meets a quota &#8211; ring the bell<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is rewarding the employee with instant public recognition. This will be extremely motivating to others.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What are the 8 vegetables in V8 juice?<\/p>\n<p>A. Tomatoes, Carrots, Celery, Beets, Parsley, Lettuce, Watercress, and Spinach<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>My friend was working at an amusement park when a couple stopped him. \u201cExcuse me,\u201d said the woman, pointing to a pond. \u201cWhat is that water made out of?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bemused, my friend replied, \u201cTwo parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee?\u201d she said to her boyfriend. \u201cI told you it wasn\u2019t real.\u201d<\/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>How about an employee morale booster with a ringing endorsement? Ring a bell and make an announcement every time an employee does something special. 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\/1308"}],"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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}