Need help on message to employees

[7rider]

Hi, Regina! I do have a few ideas for you...

Is there any way to make this a tiny bit interactive? Can you invite those who rode to work to email, or fill out a slip and send it to someone? You could have random prizes, or you could have a prize for the division that had the most participants. In fact, don't even decide what you'll award until after you find out how many people participated! Your write up just needs to say something like "let human resources know that you biked to work today. You could win a prize!"

Prize ideas: do you have corporate logo'd items? Any logo'd item would be good, but one that has a sports theme, especially a bike theme would be ideal. The company I work for has water bottles with the corporate logo on them, so that would be an easy give away.

~T~

Thanks. Great ideas!

I can ask about having a drawing for a prize - there's a corporate store at the plaza level of one of our buildings that's loaded with logo'd schwag. Perhaps the front office will okay something out of petty cash. It's kind of 11th hour to put something together. I'm kicking myself that I didn't come up with something earlier.

[LBTC]

Thanks. Great ideas!

I can ask about having a drawing for a prize - there's a corporate store at the plaza level of one of our buildings that's loaded with logo'd schwag. Perhaps the front office will okay something out of petty cash. It's kind of 11th hour to put something together. I'm kicking myself that I didn't come up with something earlier.

Well, two benefits about the lateness of announcing a prize:

you know that people who cycle on Friday are not doing it to get a prize, they didn't know there would be one. That's a good thing.

if you can make their "entries" automatic enough, you should be able to wait and see what kind of participation there was. If it was overwhelming, you might be able to make an argument for multiple prizes or for a bigger better prize. And you'll have at least through next week, or longer, to figure that out!

OH, and don't be worried about last minute stuff - you'll pull it off just fine - pressure does that to us, right? And you'll be able to decide if you want to do more for it next year or not.

Let us know how it goes.

H&B
~T~

[7rider]

Well.....
I ran it up the flagpole, and we'll see who salutes ... as my mom would say.
Thanks for your input!