Friday 10 January 2014


January blah, blah, blahs.  How can we as HR professionals or business owners help ourselves and our employees through the January blahs. This is a time to focus on positive, creative and fun initiatives within your business.  Here are a few ideas:

 
*      As with personal goal setting that often happens at the beginning of the year, use this theme to focus on business goals.  Just as with personal goals, these goals should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely). Put on an employee lunch ‘n learn talking about setting goals both personally and professionally. 

*      Fitness resolutions are one of the most common – have a fitness challenge at your office.

*      Have a company New Year’s celebration – use it as a kick off for your 2014 strategy!

*      Sponsor a Financial Planning 101 seminar as we head into tax and RSP time – you’ll be surprised at how many employees are uneducated on financial and income protection basics.

*      Bring outdoor sports indoors – organize a lunch hour indoor mini golf game.

*      Have a board game tournament: chess, Pictionary, charades, Trivial Pursuit, etc.

*      Enjoy a summer style potluck – bar-b-que theme…

 
There are an infinite number of inexpensive employee engaging activities you can do to fight those January blahs.  You even get to sneak in a team building activity without anyone really knowing it!

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