Inspirations

What should we prepare? Where to look for ideas for the #HumanBE #2h4family campaign?

Below we present inspiration, ideas and refer you to supporting materials. And we also suggest contests that we organize every year for you and your Employees.

• Every year, we announce 2 contests in May. For next year’s motto: for Employees, and a contest for action implementation: for HR.
  Texts and graphics for communication: download ready-made graphics from us.

This year’s motto: “Flavors across generations.”

It’s best to think together about what you associate the word “taste” with. Tastes of childhood, taste of life, Zbigniew Herbert’s “A Question of Taste”? Brainstorm, keeping in mind the nature of the Teams in your Company, and you will certainly come up with something creative. Think about how to involve the families and loved ones of your Teams. You can also use our ideas:

• prepare and eat a company meal together! Think about whether and if so, how this experience enriched you?
• Organize a cooking workshop for male and female employees and their loved ones. Let the theme be “taste”. The rest depends on your team: maybe “flavors of childhood” or “taste of Provence”?
• Prepare a field game for male and female employees with their families. Differentiating pears and apples by taste can be one of many tasty challenges,
• Too complicated? A photo contest for the best photo with a “taste” theme should be “easier to handle” 😉
  ANSWER. We used to have a thematically similar motto. Be inspired by the Employer Reports of the 6th edition of the action and information on the 6th edition of the action.

And remember – THE SKY (and budget) IS THE LIMIT!

Not sure what activities to plan for this year?

We have gathered for you PRACTICES and IDEAS of OTHER COMPANIES!

see what other employers (small, medium and large companies) organized as part of the HumanBE action in previous years: download the presentation

What have others said about taste? Some inspirational quotes:

For your activities: SoMe, mailings, for contests and other activities:

1. “[In taste] are the fibers of the soul and the gristle of the conscience”. – Zbigniew Herbert, “The Power of Taste”
2. “Food is a symbol of love when words are insufficient.” – Alan D. Wolfelt
3. “You learn a great deal about a person when you share a meal with them.” – Anthony Bourdain
4. “Food connects people on many different levels. It is nourishment of the soul and body; it is true love.” – Giada De Laurentiis
5. “Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do in the face of what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
6. “Family dinner: a great way to bond with your kids, meal by meal” – Laurie David
7. “The tradition of the Sunday feast accomplishes more than just feeding us. It nourishes us.” – Chef John Besh
8. “Growing up, I learned important life lessons at the dinner table.” – Chef John Besh
9. “If the house is the body, the table is the heart, the beating center.” – Shauna Niequist
10. “Strange how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everyone.” – Samuel Pepys
11. “I cook and I really believe in family dinners, I think it’s a good time to bring the family together.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
12. “Let things taste what they are.” – Alice Waters
13. “If you want to make a really good friend, go to their house and have dinner with them…people who give you their food will also give you their heart. – Cesar Chavez
14. “People are different. It is not things, objects, tastes, soups that divide them, but beliefs. It is beliefs that unite them, that build a community or a barricade.” – Maciej Bennewicz
15. “Everything I have understood in life, I have understood only because I love” Leo Tolstoy
16. “If I am a proponent of anything, it is to move. As far as possible, as much as possible. Across an ocean or just across a river. Get into someone’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everyone.” – Anthony Bourdain
17. “Eating is not just eating energy. It’s an experience.” – Guy Fieri
18. “Travel is a new experience that can break you out of your daily routine and create memories with loved ones.” – Brian Chesky
19. “To know a person, you have to become his traveling companion” – Turkish proverb
20. “Since the evening meal has been a shared experience in virtually all societies for a very long time, the fact that it has declined markedly in our country in a single generation is remarkable evidence of how rapidly our social ties have changed – Robert D. Putnam
21. “The decline of the family meal is just one of many ominous indicators. Among families with children between the ages of 8 and 17, in just 20 years there has been a decline of about 20-30% in the fraction of people who spend vacations together as a family, watch TV together, attend religious services and “just sit and talk.”-Robert D. Putnam

Inspirations from previous editions

The most common activity chosen by companies as part of the Two Hours for Family / Human action are contests with attractive prizes. For example:

• during the edition whose motto was “Our Pets and Moments Together,” the company held a competition for children of female employees for an artwork depicting an animal pet,
• During the edition whose motto was “Generational Movie Club,” another company organized an art competition for children to create an image of their favorite movie hero, and a family competition was encouraged for dishes inspired by favorite movies!
• During the edition under the slogan: “Small and large family travels” – Those who designed their own postcards from their favorite places in Poland were rewarded.
• The prizes in the contests were company gadgets, and if the budget allowed – gifts that encouraged joint family activities – tickets to the aquapark, cinema or amusement park. A good gift is our ASK ME cards.

We also have something especially for your Team!

You may, of course, enter the program with caution. We understand and respect that! However, we encourage you to do it with a nudge. Every year we reward the team that has put the most heart into the action! More information from last year can be found here: “Awards Gala of the 2023 Action Implementation Contest”. And we will announce a new contest in May 2025.

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Do you need hard data to convince decision-makers at your company that it’s worth looking at the mental well-being of the people you employ? Here they are:

• 54 percent of male and female employees are considering changing jobs in the near future.
• Only 20 percent of male and female employees think their supervisor is a role model.
• During the pandemic, probably as a result of the pro-worker changes forced by its emergence, the negative assessment of well-being in the work environment dropped from 63 percent to 36 percent.