{"id":3565,"date":"2014-05-06T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:03:30","slug":"employee-morale-hawaiian-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-hawaiian-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Hawaiian Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How about a fun way to raise employee morale? Have a Hawaiian Day and turn your workplace into a paradise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; May 6, 2014<\/h4>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Empathy ***<\/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;Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Og Mandino: American author<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. It has 332 Pimples and is hit surprisingly hard? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Hawaiian Day<\/h3>\n<p>You can transform your workplace into a Hawaiian paradise and plan a day everyone will remember.<\/p>\n<p>June 11th is Kamehameha Day in Hawaii. It celebrates King Kamehameha who united all the islands. There is a parade every year in Honolulu to celebrate. So, that week would be a great time for your party.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decorate with posters you borrow from travel agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage everyone to wear Hawaiian clothes. Award a prizes for the best, most creative, funniest, etc Hawaiian clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Give out flower leis (Artificial flower leis can be purchased from a novelty store.)<\/li>\n<li>Play Hawaiian music.<\/li>\n<li>For fun, at your party (which can be lunch or a snack break) the managers can perform the Hula dance.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your local florist to donate some tropical flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Serve snacks of Macadamia nuts and Hawaiian tropical fruit &#8211; papaya, pineapple, mangos, cocoanut, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. It has 332 Pimples and is hit surprisingly hard?<\/p>\n<p>A. Golf Ball<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I had some money,&#8221; my husband said, surveying his empty wallet. &#8220;Do you have $20?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>I work at home and don&#8217;t usually carry a lot of cash, but I had found $40 in my husband&#8217;s jeans the last time I did laundry and had triumphantly hoarded the cash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is yours,&#8221; I said, relinquishing the money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where did you get this?&#8221; he said happily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh,&#8221; I replied casually, &#8220;it is laundered money.&#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>How about a fun way to raise employee morale? Have a Hawaiian Day and turn your workplace into a paradise. (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\/3565"}],"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=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}