{"id":3592,"date":"2014-05-13T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:34:05","slug":"employee-morale-birthday-decorations-bring-joy-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-birthday-decorations-bring-joy-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Birthday Decorations that Bring Joy to the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Looking for an uplifting employee morale booster? Celebrate birthdays with elaborate decorations to bring joy to the workplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; May 13, 2014<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Friendship ***<\/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;The doors of wisdom are never shut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father of the United States<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What language did those in ancient Rome speak? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Birthday Decorations that Bring Joy to the Workplace<\/h3>\n<p>This was sent to us by one of our subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>At work there is a head secretary, who is very creative and decorates the other employees&#8217; cubicles on their birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>Her decorations are very elaborate. They follow a theme that applies to the employees&#8217; tastes or hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A big homemade birthday card<\/li>\n<li>Overhead streamers<\/li>\n<li>Balloons<\/li>\n<li>Pictures<\/li>\n<li>Glitter<\/li>\n<li>Knickknacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone passing by notices whose birthday it is and admires the decorations. It is a real morale booster.<\/p>\n<p>Birthdays are special, and decorations create enthusiasm and a happy atmosphere at work.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What language did those in ancient Rome speak?<\/p>\n<h4>A. Latin<\/h4>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>At the newspaper where I work, we often get calls from people asking us to photograph their fantastic gardens. One day, after an especially long winter, a man called to tell us about his fabulous amaryllis plant.<\/p>\n<p>I took my scribbled notes to the photo editor for his consideration, and a few minutes later I heard him on the phone, cheerfully saying, &#8220;So, I understand you&#8217;ve been growing an armadillo.&#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>Looking for an uplifting employee morale booster? Celebrate birthdays with elaborate decorations to bring joy to the workplace. (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\/3592"}],"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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}