{"id":3714,"date":"2014-07-08T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:32:11","slug":"employee-morale-silly-hats-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-silly-hats-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Silly Hats Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Try a simple and inexpensive way to have a lot of fun at work. Proclaim a -Silly Hats Day- for all of your staff to have a good time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>ConfidenceCenter.com&#8217;s Weekly Newsletter &#8211; July 8, 2014<\/h5>\n<h4>Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>*** Inspiration ***<\/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 opportunity doesn&#8217;t knock, build a door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Milton Berle: American comedian and actor<\/p>\n<h4>Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Which is the largest muscle in the Human Body? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n<h3>Employee Morale<\/h3>\n<h3>Silly Hats Day<\/h3>\n<p>Contributed by Dorris Davidson of Brinks Home Security<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple and inexpensive way to have a lot of fun at work. Proclaim a -Silly Hats Day- at least one week in advance so people will have time to purchase or create their hats.<\/p>\n<p>Contest Categories<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silliest<\/li>\n<li>Funniest<\/li>\n<li>Most creative home made hat<\/li>\n<li>Most creative purchased hat<\/li>\n<li>Largest hat<\/li>\n<li>Smallest hat<\/li>\n<li>Ugliest hat<\/li>\n<li>Prettiest hat<\/li>\n<li>Most outrageous hat<\/li>\n<li>Most colorful hat<\/li>\n<li>Most boring hat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners get prizes such as movie passes, a half hour off, candy bars, lunch with supervisor, a get to work late pass, or inexpensive gifts.<\/p>\n<h4>Answer to This Week&#8217;s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n<p>Q. Which is the largest muscle in the Human Body?<\/p>\n<p>A. Gluteus Maximus<\/p>\n<h4>Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n<p>Having recently transferred from one nursing unit to another at a rural hospital, I did not yet know the names of all 32 patients there.<\/p>\n<p>I also did not recognize their families yet, something the regular staff did with ease.<\/p>\n<p>One evening I was approached by a young woman who asked, &#8220;Can Dad have something to eat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trying to be tactful, I politely asked, &#8220;And your father is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She looked at me strangely and replied, &#8220;Hungry.&#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>Try a simple and inexpensive way to have a lot of fun at work. Proclaim a -Silly Hats Day- for all of your staff to have a good time. (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\/3714"}],"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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}