Hi everyone ! our coporate theme for this month is "new begining". any employee engagement activities that can be conducted on this theme. please suggest.
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Hi,
To begin with, you can share the poem "New Beginnings" by Helen Steiner Rice to set the tone of the theme. (Do a Google search to get the words).
You can then attempt the following:
- On one designated day, each employee is to ensure that he/she wears or adorns something on themselves when they come to work. Post lunch or an hour before closing time, the employees will gather, and they will try to identify the new object in another person's attire or style. This could also effectively be an exercise in being observant, paying more attention to our co-workers, etc. A couple of prizes can be given, e.g., for the person who lists out the maximum number of employees and their new display.
- Each employee can be encouraged to share one new good habit/resolution/learning they will attempt over the next year. Using a buddy system, pairs of people can encourage each other to monitor/encourage/give feedback, etc., on this resolution during the course of the year.
- Seek suggestions from the employees for some motivational activities to stimulate/uplift/improve the talents/knowledge/efficiency/effectiveness of employees.
- You can assign/rotate different departments to take charge of a Motivational bulletin board, which will be updated every week by the designated department. At the annual day, the department/contributors/best contributions, etc., can be recognized and rewarded.
I would also suggest you visit the following inspirational and motivational blogs to get an idea of how I have attempted to share some "new thoughts" regularly:
- [www.actspot.wordpress.com](http://www.actspot.wordpress.com) - Daily Blog
- [www.poweract.blogspot.com](http://www.poweract.blogspot.com) - Weekly Blog
I trust some of the above ideas will ignite the "New Beginning" theme, sizzle, and dazzle the workplace.
Best Wishes.
From India, Mumbai
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To begin with, you can share the poem "New Beginnings" by Helen Steiner Rice to set the tone of the theme. (Do a Google search to get the words).
You can then attempt the following:
- On one designated day, each employee is to ensure that he/she wears or adorns something on themselves when they come to work. Post lunch or an hour before closing time, the employees will gather, and they will try to identify the new object in another person's attire or style. This could also effectively be an exercise in being observant, paying more attention to our co-workers, etc. A couple of prizes can be given, e.g., for the person who lists out the maximum number of employees and their new display.
- Each employee can be encouraged to share one new good habit/resolution/learning they will attempt over the next year. Using a buddy system, pairs of people can encourage each other to monitor/encourage/give feedback, etc., on this resolution during the course of the year.
- Seek suggestions from the employees for some motivational activities to stimulate/uplift/improve the talents/knowledge/efficiency/effectiveness of employees.
- You can assign/rotate different departments to take charge of a Motivational bulletin board, which will be updated every week by the designated department. At the annual day, the department/contributors/best contributions, etc., can be recognized and rewarded.
I would also suggest you visit the following inspirational and motivational blogs to get an idea of how I have attempted to share some "new thoughts" regularly:
- [www.actspot.wordpress.com](http://www.actspot.wordpress.com) - Daily Blog
- [www.poweract.blogspot.com](http://www.poweract.blogspot.com) - Weekly Blog
I trust some of the above ideas will ignite the "New Beginning" theme, sizzle, and dazzle the workplace.
Best Wishes.
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Thanks for the ideas! I thought I'll also create a mailer and send the theme of the months to employees and ask them to send in their suggestions. This way, we can get to know what employees would like us to have, and also we can reward the employees for the best idea. Also, if we execute an activity selected by the employees themselves, they will be more motivated to participate.
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HI Wiggles, Had u got any suggestion from your employees for motivational activities. Can u share those suggestion and that mailer too which u mailed them as a information . Thanx Himani
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Thanks for the ideas, everyone! We did an "origami contest" for the New Beginning theme, wherein the best design was rewarded. Origami papers were distributed to all. The employees were supposed to create a design and relate it to a new beginning of the company. For example, if someone made a bird, then they related it to how "birds soar high." The contest brought out the creativity in employees.
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