{"id":3432,"date":"2014-03-18T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2013-12-31T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:41:32","slug":"employee-morale-around-the-world-one-day-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-around-the-world-one-day-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Around the World &#8211; One Month at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a fun, multicultural employee morale booster. Around the World &#8211; One Month at a Time highlights a different country each month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; March 18, 2014<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Efficiency ***<\/p>\n<p>(Download this word on a printable poster in the Employee Morale Center. Info at http:\/\/www.EmployeeMoraleCenter.com)<\/p>\n<p>*** &#8220;Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Denis Waitely: American motivational speaker and best-selling author<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Merlin was the magician for which legendary King? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Around the World &#8211; One Month at a Time<\/h3>\n<p>Contributed by Sue Richey<\/p>\n<p>Choose a different country to plan a theme around each month as you go around the world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decorate your department in the theme of that country. Travel agencies may help you get posters.<\/li>\n<li>Hold a casual day mid week, and celebrate with a snack from the country such as chips and salsa for Mexico, mini egg rolls from China, etc. Local restaurants may want to sponsor this. You can also give everyone a little token gift from the country.<\/li>\n<li>Assign different employees to tell about the history and geography of the country. Showing slides or a movie would be a great addition. The public library, book stores, or the Internet can help you get information.<\/li>\n<li>Put a large map of the world on a wall and mark the country that you have celebrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With so much diversity in the workplace you can even choose countries where your employees or their families came from, and they can tell their personal stories.<\/p>\n<p>Employees will look forward to the monthly travel theme as they learn to value the diversity of many cultures through the world.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Merlin was the magician for which legendary King?<\/p>\n<h4>A. Arthur<\/h4>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Preparing a meal for my entire family, I had assumed I could just double my favorite lemon pie recipe. However, when it came time to serve dessert, I found that the filling had not set. I served the runny pie anyway, apologizing profusely.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone politely avoided mentioning the state of the dessert until my brother finished his and asked, &#8220;Can I have another cup of pie?&#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 2014 Harriet Meyerson, The Confidence Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun, multicultural employee morale booster. Around the World &#8211; One Month at a Time highlights a different country each month. (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\/3432"}],"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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}