Employee Morale and Confidence – Past Newsletters Archive

Our 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.

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We also have many books and eBooks for improving job morale at our Employee Success Products store including:

• Fire Up Your Staff on a Shoestring Budget
• 101 Low Cost Morale Boosters that Energize Employees
• Supervisors Appreciation Stationery
• The Little Book of Answers
• 101 Captivating Motivational Quotes

Happy morale boosting,

THE CONFIDENCE CENTER NEWS

Easy Ways to Raise Employee Morale

And Build Personal Confidence

March 20, 2002 - ISSUE #91

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WORDS OF WISDOM

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WORD OF THE WEEK

*** Smile ***

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

*** "No"Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score." Marianne Espinosa Murphy

TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK

*** What Missouri town was Mark Twain's boyhood home?

(Answer at the end of this week's newsletter.)

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MORALE BOOSTER OF THE WEEK

Getting to Know You

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Contributed by Mary Witherspoon, Past National President of the American Business Women's Association (ABWA)

PURPOSE
This visual - "getting to know you" - activity helps employees understand each other on a deeper level. This activity is especially helpful when companies merge, and employees from both companies need to work together. This is also a good activity to help employees from different departments get to know each other. When people know and understand each other, they get along better.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED

Posters or poster paper- (3M Post-It poster paper can be easily attached to and taken down from your wall.)
Colored marking pens

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS
Draw one vertical line down the middle, and draw one horizontal line across your poster to create four equal size squares or rectangles.

1. In the UPPER LEFT SQUARE print your name.
2. In the UPPER RIGHT SQUARE draw pictures of 2-3 of your "ON the job" talents.
3. In the LOWER LEFT SQUARE draw pictures of the most important things in your life.
4. In the LOWER RIGHT SQUARE draw pictures of 2-3 of your "OFF the job" talents.

Employees take turns talking about their posters. Posters can then be hung in the employee lounge or a suitable area. Many employees will find they have hobbies or other things in common and friendships will be formed.

* More great morale boosting ideas in the FIRE UP YOUR STAFF ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET manual

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BUILDING CONFIDENCE

Are You Listening?

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By Harriet Meyerson

Have you ever misinterpreted what someone said? Has someone else ever misinterpreted what you said? This happens because people hear things differently.

For example, the other day my husband and I were driving home from the airport and I called a Pizza restaurant on my cell phone to order a pizza. I said that we would pick it up at the restaurant on our way home.

THEY WEREN'T LISTENING. When we got to the restaurant they said, "We sent someone to deliver the pizza to your house, but you weren't there, and the delivery man isn't back yet." (They had found our address from keying in our phone number to their computer.)

We had to wait while they made us another pizza, so we lost time. They had to make us another pizza so they lost money.

One easy way to avoid this kind of mix-up is to LISTEN AND CONFIRM.

You are responsible for making sure that the other person understands you. Take responsibility for your communication by saying, "I just want to be sure I was clear in giving my order. I want mushrooms and onions on a large pizza, and I will pick the pizza up at your restaurant in 20 minutes. Is that the way you understood it?"

The minute it takes to confirm that the other person received your message the way you intended it, will avoid the expense and aggravation of mixed up communications.

From the Relationship Magic Seminar.
Click here for details

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TIPS FROM HARRIET MEYERSON
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Today is the first day of spring. In addition to enjoying the budding trees and flowers, I change the oil in my car with each changing season. It helps me keep track of this important maintenance and keeps my car happy.

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ANSWER TO THIS WEEKS TRIVIA QUESTION

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Q What Missouri town was Mark Twain's boyhood home?

A Hannibal

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(c) Copyright 2002 Harriet Meyerson/The Confidence Center. All rights reserved.