Employee Morale Builders
- Make good news phone calls
- Write "Good Work" sticky notes
- Write congratulations cards
- Write sympathy cards
- Clip positive newspaper newsletter/ articles with the person's name and/or photo and send to the home enclosed in a card that says" Good News"
- Design a coupon good for breakfast/ lunch or coffee with the boss
- Write a congratulatory article for the website/newsletter or newspaper
- Sponsor a breakfast once a year, cooked by the management
- Establish a mentor system
- Post a monthly birthday calendar
- Sit with employees at lunch
- Survey staff about their ideas for improving things
- Establish a rumor control center
- Welcome new employees. Establish a welcoming committee that will help the new person start the first day with a friendly greeting, a tour and introduction to the staff, a clean workplace stocked with supplies and a training program that will help the person adapt more easily to the new environment.
photo by Pulitzer Prize winner Joe Marquette