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Employee Morale and Confidence – Past Newsletters ArchiveOur newsletter, Employee Morale and Confidence, contains creative morale boosters that improve workplace morale and build employee confidence. If you are an HR Manager, supervisor, CEO, or business owner, you can use these morale boosting ideas to improve staff morale - fast and with little or no budget. The issue below is from our newsletter archive. Be sure to sign up for your free subscription so you can get current issues of our email newsletter every Tuesday. You will be glad you did. We also have many books and eBooks for improving job morale at our Employee Success Products store including:
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THE CONFIDENCE CENTER NEWS Easy Ways to Raise Employee Morale And Build Personal Confidence January 23, 2002 - ISSUE #83 ---------------------------------------------- WORDS OF WISDOM ---------------------------------------------- WORD OF THE WEEK *** Patience *** QUOTE OF THE WEEK *** "It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad." Jimmy Buffet ***
*** What are the four railways in "Monopoly"? (Answer at the end of next week's newsletter. Last week's trivia question and answer at the end of this newsletter.) ---------------------------------------------- RAISING MORALE - HOW TO BE HAPPY AT WORK Bananas Make Training Fun ---------------------------------------------- Idea contributed by Bobbe White at www.trylaughter.com Here's a way to make learning fun. This activity can be used with most types of training. Adapt it to your needs.Using the bananas anchors your review process. 1. Select a maximum of eight main learning points in advance, and print them on separate adhesive mailing labels. 2. Then buy a bunch of bananas equal to the number of learning points you have selected and apply a sticker to each banana. Wrap a paper "leaf" around the bunch that reads: Review the Secrets of ___. 3. Divide participants into groups of roughly equal numbers so that you have one group for each learning point. Pass the bunch of bananas around and ask each group to take one banana. Each group discusses the learning point it finds stuck to its banana and then exchanges bananas with another team. Repeat. * If you don't have time for each group to review each learning point, ask each group to focus on the learning point its banana bears, and then to present a two-minute review of that point for other participants. 4. Buy some ice cream, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. After the training session, use the bananas to make banana splits. * More great morale boosting ideas in the FIRE UP YOUR STAFF ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET manual ---------------------------------------------- BUILDING RELATIONSHIP CONFIDENCE Agree and Add ---------------------------------------------- by Harriet Meyerson Last year I was taking a class in improvisation techniques and learned this effective conversation strategy - It's called -Agree and Add. When you are speaking to someone and want the conversation to flow, simply agree with some part of what the person has said, then add your own comment or question using the word, "AND" so that your partner has something to respond to. For example: "That's an interesting point, and I wonder what might happen if...." "It is important that schools get more funding, and how do you think this can be accomplished, The point is that when you just agree or disagree, the conversation has nowhere to go. Even if you disagree and add your own comment, you have discounted your partner and he or she may not listen. However if you agree - with any part of what your partner has said, and then add your response, your conversation goes back and forth like a long tennis volley. ---------------------------------------------- ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS TRIVIA QUESTION ---------------------------------------------- Q. Who was the first navy veteran to become president of the U.S.? A. John F. Kennedy ---------------------------------------------- (c) Copyright 2002 Harriet Meyerson/The Confidence Center. All rights reserved.
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