Olympic Games parties can add fun, excitement and world-class achievement to your workday

Written 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.

Raiserepparttar Flag. Hoistrepparttar 123072 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 onrepparttar 123073 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,repparttar 123074 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 torepparttar 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 ofrepparttar 123071 manager's job is to managerepparttar 123072 emotions inrepparttar 123073 office; to notice negative emotions and stop their spread. A manager with high EQ (emotional intelligence) understands her own emotions and those of others, andrepparttar 123074 effect they can have on a group. She or he pays attention torepparttar 123075 office's emotional temperature just as much as torepparttar 123076 work flow, deadlines, assignments, and productivity. Why? Because it'srepparttar 123077 emotions that driverepparttar 123078 productivity. An office that's full of tension and fear is an office in a downward spiral, heading toward dysfunction.

Even ifrepparttar 123079 current 'problem' is handled, there will be an aftermath. High tension, fear and anger drain us after they disappear andrepparttar 123080 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 intorepparttar 123081 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'rerepparttar 123082 manager, learn to be "the eye ofrepparttar 123083 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 affectrepparttar 123084 bottom line as much as anything else in your bag of tricks.

©Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Individual coaching for professionals, executives, and individuals, business programs, Internet courses, teleclasses, and ebooks on Emotional Intelligence. Improve your EQ, improve your life! Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezine. Put "ezine" for subject line.


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