{"id":3679,"date":"2014-06-17T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2014-02-07T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T19:31:01","slug":"employee-morale-buzzword-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-buzzword-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Buzzword Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How about a fun game to help raise employee morale at your workplace? Play Buzzword Bingo to liven up meetings and keep employees on their toes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; June 17, 2014<\/h4>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Commitment ***<\/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;If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zig Ziglar: Esteemed author and beloved motivational speaker<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What type of animal is a Garganey? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Buzzword Bingo<\/h3>\n<p>Contributed by Corinna Wright<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever catch people falling asleep or just distracted during a long and boring meeting? Try Buzzword Bingo!<\/p>\n<p>Create several Bingo cards with words or phrases being used during the meeting&#8217;s topic of discussion such as: -the system-, -approval-, and -the accounting department-. This will keep everyone on their toes and listening for the key words or phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Those who -Bingo- receive gift certificates or a small prize.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What type of animal is a Garganey?<\/p>\n<p>A. Duck<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>I had left a file at home and called my wife to ask her to e-mail the electronic version to me at work. Since she&#8217;s not computer literate, I talked her through the process and waited for her to say it was done. When she didn&#8217;t, I asked, &#8220;What does it say now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It says &#8216;Hit Enter When Ready,'&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>I waited for a moment more. Impatiently I asked, &#8220;Well?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; she said, &#8220;how do I know when it&#8217;s ready?&#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 game to help raise employee morale at your workplace? Play Buzzword Bingo to liven up meetings and keep employees on their toes. (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\/3679"}],"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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}