Because everyone has different tastes and interests, allow activity staff to select what gift they’d like to receive for Activity Professionals Week. Come up with a list of several items they can choose from, such as the “Activity Professionals Put The Fun In Life” Deluxe Lunch Bag & Appreciation Snack Pack combo and Vivid Pocket Tote & Umbrella Gift Sets. When the order comes in, take time to personally give each item to the person who picked it out.
Spend a memorable evening with your activity professionals and volunteers, their spouses and children. Plan things to do for them and the residents, such as playing checkers, creating construction paper snowmen to hang in the windows and making pizza. End the night by presenting “Activity Professionals Brighten Lives” Badge Holders to staff and “Volunteers: Our Most Valuable Resource” Lapel Pins to volunteers.
Recognize your activity staff and volunteers for the hours they dedicate to improving the lives of residents. At the beginning of Activity Professionals Week, hold a breakfast meeting for them. Serve up healthy breakfast items, such as whole wheat bagels and fruit. After the meal, present each person with a Years Of Service Lapel Pin depending on how many years they’ve been with your facility. (You can stock up on the Lapel Pins for future events.) Also give each person a “Caring Is Always In Season” 2010 Monthly Planner to use until next year’s Activity Professionals Week.
This year, promote a sense of unity between your activity professionals with a sports-team-related theme. Prior to Activity Professionals Week, find out what team–college or professional–is most popular in your area. Then round up items such as banners, pom-poms and posters featuring the selected team and use them to decorate a common area of your facility. During your appreciation week, hold a celebration for residents and employees in the decorated room. Give each activity staff member an Activity Professionals Baseball-Style Jersey or an “Activity Professionals Put The Fun In Life” T-Shirt & Cap Combo. Introduce your “activity professional team” during the event and have everyone cheer.
Give your activity staff members a break from the chilly and blustery January weather. Every morning of your recognition week, bring a cup of hot cocoa, coffee or tea to each activity professional. Take some time to sit down, talk to each one and thank him or her for being such an important part of your facility team. On the last day of the week, instead of going to your activity staff with beverages, have them come to your office. Surprise them with Embroidered Roll-Up Blankets or Warm Appreciation-To-Go Gift Packs to help keep them cozy throughout the remainder of the season.
These days, much emphasis is placed on “going green” and reducing, reusing and recycling. Tie these concepts into Activity Professionals Week. Work with residents to organize a presentation where they tell activity professionals and volunteers about the positive impact they have at the facility. Create a large banner or poster that reads “You Make Our Environment Friendlier” and have it hang behind the mresidents when they speak. At the conclusion of the event, have residents hand out “Making A Difference In The Lives Of Others” Insulated Travel Mugs and Eco-Friendly Tote Bags to those who were honored. Both items can be reused!
While planning Activity Professionals Week celebrations for your staff members, also start preparing for their birthdays. Add “birthday presents” to the list of items you order so you’ve got a card and gift ready when someone’s special day comes along. Include the Happy Birthday Card Assortment Pack and Activity Professionals Embroidered Hooded Zipper Sweatshirts in your order.
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