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Are you looking for team building ideas and ways to boost staff morale? Here is a great excuse to have a bit of fun in the office:

Thursday September 1st is Random Acts of Kindness Day in New Zealand. Started seven years ago, we are the only country in the world to celebrate such a day on such a huge scale.

Thousands of businesses and individuals, schools, churches and even entire cities have been part of spreading a little random kindness around them over the years.

Here are some ideas for the office:

Bake muffins (or buy a fancy cake) and set up a morning tea

Order in pizzas for lunch and send an email round first thing telling everyone to
meet in the lunch room at midday

Give out RAK Awards: the most studious worker, the funniest employee, the one
with the hottest car, the one with the dodgiest car, the one who commutes furthest
to work, the one with the most kids, the best karaoke singer, the newest staff
member, the oldest (make that longest-serving!) staff member…

Organise a Secret RAKker for the day. Similar to Secret Santa – employees are given a name and told to come up with something kind (make them a coffee, bring a flower, bring a cupcake, buy them chocolate, take them to lunch, pimp their desk, bombard them with Kindness emails). Then management could give a prize to the most ingenious RAK Organise a long lunch at a local pub and use RAK Day as the excuse to reward your hard working team

Give out bonus cards: come in an hour late, leave early, take a long lunch

Send your team outside for half an hour to RAK passersby with a compliment, a hug, a flower, a helping hand, a muffin. They will come back enthusing about the

feedback!

Random Acts of Kindness Day is a great excuse to do fun (and kind) things in your workplace, so c’mon New Zealand, let’s be a part of it and let’s lift the kindness
temperature in our country on September 1st.

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