{"id":3879,"date":"2014-10-21T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2014-09-17T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T18:32:46","slug":"employee-morale-brag-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/employee-morale-brag-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Morale: Brag Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raise employee morale by showing off your employees. Have a “Brag Time” at the next meeting for your employees to list a personal accomplishment to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ConfidenceCenter.com’s Weekly Newsletter – October 21, 2014<\/h5>\n

Word and Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n

*** Habits ***<\/p>\n

*** “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” -John Dryden<\/p>\n

Trivia Question of the Week<\/h4>\n

Q. What color are Bart Simpson’s shorts? (Answer at the end of this newsletter.)<\/p>\n

Employee Morale<\/h3>\n

Brag Time<\/h3>\n

At the beginning of your next staff meeting, give each employee a Brag Sheet on which to write something they have accomplished, either at work or in their personal life. Give employees a few minutes to write their -Brags- and turn them in.<\/p>\n

Then, at an appropriate time during the meeting, read the brag sheets with enthusiasm and applaud after each one.<\/p>\n

Listening to other people’s accomplishments is so motivating because people think, “If she can do that, I can too.”<\/p>\n

If you do this regularly at your staff meetings, employees will strive to do something they can brag about. To encourage participation, let everyone who turns in a -brag sheet- participate in a drawing for a small prize.<\/p>\n

Answer to This Week’s Trivia Question<\/h4>\n

Q. What color are Bart Simpson’s shorts?<\/p>\n

A. Blue<\/p>\n

Joke of the Week<\/h4>\n

One dark night my four-year-old brother, Darren, watched a plane moving across a clear sky. As it disappeared, he heaved a relieved sigh and said: “Whew! I’m sure never gonna be a pilot!”<\/p>\n

Surprised, Mom asked, “Why not?”<\/p>\n

“Do you realize\u201a”Darren replied wisely, “how hard it would be to steer around all those stars?”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(c) Copyright 2014 Harriet Meyerson, The Confidence Center<\/p>\n

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Raise employee morale by showing off your employees. Have a “Brag Time” at the next meeting for your employees to list a personal accomplishment to everyone. (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\/3879"}],"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=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confidencecenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}