{"id":2368,"date":"2013-09-03T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:41:35","slug":"employee-morale-word-of-the-week-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-word-of-the-week-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Word of the Week Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Looking for the right way to spell employee morale? The Word of the Week gets everyone on the same page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; Sept. 3, 2013<\/h5>\n<p>Just a head&#8217;s up. October 4th is World Smile Day. Look at next week&#8217;s newsletter for a Smile Activity for your employees. Also, see the creative Smiley Face mouse pads, mugs, magnets, stickers, etc in our online specialty item store:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/confidencecenter\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/confidencecenter*<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Perspective ***<\/p>\n<p>*** You can either complain that rose bushes have thorns &#8211; or rejoice that thorn bushes have roses.<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. At the conclusion of the Tour de France bike race, who is awarded the Polka Dot Jersey? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale Activity<\/h3>\n<h3>Word of the Week Ideas<\/h3>\n<p>Each week we list the Word of the Week at the top of our newsletter. For example &#8211; this week&#8217;s word is &#8211; Perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas on how to use the Word.<\/p>\n<p>* Post the Word of the week on the bulletin board.<\/p>\n<p>* Leave the Word on everyone&#8217;s voice mail.<\/p>\n<p>* Email the Word to all employees<\/p>\n<p>* Write the Word at the top of a poster, and ask employees to write their thoughts or draw a picture about it.<\/p>\n<p>* At an office meeting ask employees to tell about an experience that relates to the word of the week.<\/p>\n<p>* At an office meeting ask employees to tell how this quality could be used at your office.<\/p>\n<p>Give everyone who participates a reward.<\/p>\n<p>When you focus on winning qualities it keeps your mind on the positive and helps create a more positive atmosphere in the workplace.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. At the conclusion of the Tour de France bike race, who is awarded the Polka Dot Jersey?<\/p>\n<p>A. The strongest climber in the mountain stages of the race. It is also called the King of the Mountains Jersey.<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>An applicant was filling out a job application. When he came to the question, &#8220;Have you ever been arrested?&#8221; He answered, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next question, intended for people who had answered in the affirmative to the last one, was &#8220;Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The applicant answered it anyway: &#8220;Never got caught.&#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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for the right way to spell employee morale? The Word of the Week gets everyone on the same page. 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\/2368"}],"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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}