{"id":2919,"date":"2013-11-12T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T20:20:32","slug":"employee-morale-special-days-to-celebrate-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-special-days-to-celebrate-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Special Days to Celebrate in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for special ways to raise employee morale? This week’s newsletter has ideas for December – Motivational Moments Month – and other months and days to celebrate in December.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ConfidenceCenter.com’s Weekly Newsletter –\u00a0November 12, 2013<\/h5>\n

Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n

*** Success ***<\/p>\n

*** “If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.”<\/p>\n

-Unknown<\/p>\n

Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n

Q. What’s a California Long White? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n

Employee Morale Booster<\/h3>\n

Special Days to Celebrate in December<\/h3>\n

December is Motivational Moments Month<\/p>\n

This is a month to take a free minute or two to lift your spirits and those of your co-workers.<\/p>\n

Activity ideas:<\/p>\n

Start or end a meeting with a motivational quote, story or poem.<\/p>\n

Display motivational quotes on the walls of your office. (Print them from our library of poster size quotes.)<\/p>\n

Create a Humor Notebook for your department. Whenever you see a funny cartoon or joke, put it in the notebook. Encourage your co-workers to contribute. When anyone is feeling down, they can reach for the Humor Notebook, and enjoy a few minutes of fun and laughter.<\/p>\n

More Special Months to Celebrate:<\/p>\n

Spiritual Literacy Month- http:\/\/www.one-river.org<\/p>\n

Bingo’s Birthday Month \u2013 To celebrate the innovation and manufacture of the game of Bingo in 1929 by Edwin S. Lowe.<\/p>\n

Bingo has grown into a five-billion-dollar-a-year charitable fundraiser. \u2013 www.bingobugle.com<\/p>\n

National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month – www.3dmonth.org<\/p>\n

Colorectal (Colon) Cancer Education Month – www.ppsinc.org\/colon.htm<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 United Nations World AIDS Day \u2013 http:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/events\/world+aids+day+2004.asp<\/p>\n

1 – Rosa Parks Day: Anniversary of Arrest<\/p>\n

7 \u2013 National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day \u2013 http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/photos\/events\/wwii-pac\/pearlhbr\/pearlhbr.htm<\/p>\n

15 \u2013 Bill of Rights Day – The Bill of Rights contains the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. See them at http:\/\/www.billofrights.org\/<\/p>\n

16 – National Chocolate Covered Anything Day – http:\/\/www.theultimateholidaysite.com\/holidays\/2013-12\/#!national-chocolate-covered-anything-day<\/p>\n

21\u2013 Winter Begins<\/p>\n

25 \u2013 Christmas<\/p>\n

31 \u2013 New Year’s Eve Celebration<\/p>\n

Answer to This Week’s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n

Q. What’s a California Long White?<\/p>\n

A. A potato<\/p>\n

Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n

A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while.<\/p>\n

“I can hardly believe my eyes” he exclaimed.<\/p>\n

“That’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen.”<\/p>\n

“Nah, he’s not so smart,” the friend replied.<\/p>\n

“I’ve beaten him three games out of five.”<\/p>\n

Free Employee Morale Video Series<\/h4>\n

See free videos on how to create employee spirit teams: Get Instant Access to the Employee Spirit Team Magic Video Series<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) Copyright 2013 Harriet Meyerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for special ways to raise employee morale? This week’s newsletter has ideas for December – Motivational Moments Month – and other months and days to celebrate in December. 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":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"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=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}