Olympic Games parties can add fun, excitement and world-class achievement to your workdayWritten by Jerry Busche
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Decorate your office with red, white and blue Americana images. Decorate your work area with Olympic icons such as Olympic torch, Olympic rings, posters of athletes, balloons, streamers, etc. Create your own, using poster board, Kraft paper and large-tip markers. Raise Flag. Hoist American flag every time someone in your group records a special sale or does something noteworthy. If appropriate, ring a bell or signify achievement through some other means. Keep Score. Put on your thinking cap and come up with ways to use Olympic events as a way to “keep score” as you head toward your goals. For example, create a Marathon map on a poster board indicating each of 26 miles (the marathon race is actually 26 miles 385 yards). Every time someone sells X-product or does X-activity, mark it in color on map, etc. Let’s Eat Greek! If appropriate, treat your people to a dinner at a local Greek restaurant. Food, Drink and Munchies Ideas: * Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions * Power bars * Bottled water * Gatorade and other sports drinks For more ideas on staging a fun, exciting and effective Olympic Games campaign, visit www.bizmotivation.com where there is an Olympic Games Party and Idea Kit available, plus information and links to motivation articles, themes, decorations and award merchandise.
Jerry Busche is the creator of BizMotivation.com, a division of Jerry Busche and Associates, a marketing, advertising and public relations agency that specializes in sales and motivational programs and services as well as website design and search engine positioning. The agency has served a variety of clients from Fortune 500 firms to startups, including: * Blue Cross and Blue Shield * BellSouth * Southern Bell * Dannon Yogurt * Johnson and Johnson * Vistakon
| | What Makes a Manager Effective?Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach
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Keely then got up and went out to coffee room feeling much better, and spread her own contagious smile and relaxed demeanor. After a few minutes she and Shelly were even laughing. DIS-INFECTING A good part of manager's job is to manage emotions in office; to notice negative emotions and stop their spread. A manager with high EQ (emotional intelligence) understands her own emotions and those of others, and effect they can have on a group. She or he pays attention to office's emotional temperature just as much as to work flow, deadlines, assignments, and productivity. Why? Because it's emotions that drive productivity. An office that's full of tension and fear is an office in a downward spiral, heading toward dysfunction. Even if current 'problem' is handled, there will be an aftermath. High tension, fear and anger drain us after they disappear and effects can be long-lasting. People who work under constant tension burn out, stay home, engage in "presenteeism" (coming to work but getting little done), make more mistakes, and treat each other with disrespect because they're focused on their own emotional management and have little left over for anyone else. They also fall into CYA mode, where they withhold information from fear, and avoid certain people from dislike. Who likes a raging tyrant? Say what you will, you will avoid this person, will withhold information, will become inauthentic, and will function below capacity. If you're manager, learn to be "the eye of storm," a center moving through whatever's going on who represents normality, personal power and resourcefulness. Practice good EQ. It will free people to rediscover their own motivation, and affect bottom line as much as anything else in your bag of tricks.
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