{"id":3151,"date":"2013-12-17T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2013-12-31T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T19:42:59","slug":"employee-morale-top-5-holiday-survival-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-top-5-holiday-survival-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Top 5 Holiday Survival Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Looking for ways to raise employee morale during the holidays? Share these Top 5 Holiday Survival Strategies with your staff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; December 17, 2013<\/h5>\n<p>Use these Top 5 Holiday Survival Strategies, and have a Stress-free Christmas<\/p>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Truth ***<\/p>\n<h4>Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** &#8220;The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if your approach is from only one angle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Randall Marlin<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Who wrote &#8220;White Christmas?&#8221; (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale Activity<\/h3>\n<h3>Top 5 Holiday Survival Strategies<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s one week before Christmas and you have more in your &#8220;sleigh&#8221; than you can handle.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the time to tip over the red sleigh and stress yourself to the max.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, you need to think about your &#8220;Survival Stress Techniques.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How To Survive The Holiday Stress<\/p>\n<p>1. Discover the &#8220;art of delegating&#8221; the holiday chores. Assign different tasks to family members.<\/p>\n<p>Make this holiday a &#8220;family affair&#8221; by having<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one person wrap gifts,<\/li>\n<li>another to address cards,<\/li>\n<li>another person to make cookies,<\/li>\n<li>another one to decorate, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t expect perfection. Murphy&#8217;s Law is always lurking around the corner, so prepare as much as you can a week before the holiday, and then relax and enjoy yourself.<\/p>\n<p>3. Eat healthy to maintain your weight during the holidays. Eat foods that give you energy and boost your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Prepare and freeze holiday food ahead of time so you&#8217;re not nibbling.<\/p>\n<p>3. Get plenty rest. Be good to yourself with a warm bath, scented candles and a comfy bed to snuggle into at night.<\/p>\n<p>4. Be polite. Be patient with difficult people and &#8220;smile&#8221; Smiling reduces stress.<\/p>\n<p>5. Diffuse difficult relationships by sending encouraging cards or giving a friendly call before a Holiday &#8220;Open House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Who wrote &#8220;White Christmas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A. Irving Berlin<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>What did Adam say on the day before Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s Christmas, Eve<\/p>\n<p>What do you have in December that you don&#8217;t have in any other month?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The letter &#8220;D&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do snowmen eat for breakfast?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Snowflakes<\/p>\n<p>Where do snowmen go to dance?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Snowballs<\/p>\n<p>What do you get when you cross a snowman with a shark?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Frostbite<\/p>\n<p>What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Claustrophobic<\/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>Looking for ways to raise employee morale during the holidays? Share these Top 5 Holiday Survival Strategies with your staff. (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\/3151"}],"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=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}