{"id":3703,"date":"2014-07-01T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2014-02-17T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:20:29","slug":"employee-morale-birthday-treasure-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-birthday-treasure-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Birthday Treasure Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s an adventurous way to raise employee morale. Get everyone involved with a Birthday Treasure Hunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; July 1, 2014<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Integrity ***<\/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;A goal is a dream with a deadline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Napoleon Hill: Early pioneer of personal-success literature<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What is the name of moving energy? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Birthday Treasure Hunt<\/h3>\n<p>On someone&#8217;s birthday, have a treasure hunt for the birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>How To Create Your Treasure Hunt<\/p>\n<p>Create 5 notes &#8211; each with clues as to where they can find the next note. On the 5th note write the final clue as to where the gift is hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Five different people can each write a clue. Be creative. Don&#8217;t make the clues too hard or too easy, and have one or two hints ready for each clue in case they are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Hand the birthday person an envelope with the first clue. He or she will then search for the rest of the clues that will lead to the final clue and the birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone will have fun watching the birthday celebrant as he or she hunts for the treasure.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. What is the name of moving energy?<\/p>\n<p>A. Kinetic<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Not being a very good cook, I usually opt for prepackaged, precooked food.<\/p>\n<p>Never was my lack of culinary skills more evident than one day when, hearing the whir of the electric can opener, my husband asked our four-year-old what the noise was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s Mom,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;She&#8217;s making gravy.&#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 an adventurous way to raise employee morale. Get everyone involved with a Birthday Treasure Hunt. (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\/3703"}],"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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}